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Law on Administrative Territories and Populated Areas (2020)

Country/Territory
Latvia
Document type
Legislation
Date
2020
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Latvijas Vēstnesis, 119C, 22.06.2020.
Subject
Agricultural & rural development
Keyword
Cultural heritage Governance Local government Procedural matters Public land Registration Sustainable development
Geographical area
Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, Northern Europe
Abstract

The Law prescribes the conditions and procedures for the creation, keeping records, modifying borders, and establishment of the administrative centre of administrative territories and the territorial units of municipalities, and also the procedures for determining the status of a populated area and keeping records of such areas, and the competence of institutions in these matters. In order to strengthen common identity among residents and preserve and sustainably develop the cultural and historical environment, belonging of towns and rural territories to historical Latvian regions – Vidzeme, Latgale, Kurzeme, Zemgale, and Sēlija – shall be governed by a separate law. The Law further provides for administrative territories and territorial units; populated areas; names of administrative territories and populated areas; and registration of administrative territories, their territorial units, and populated areas.

Full text
English/Latvian
Website
likumi.lv