The purpose of this Law is the legal regulation of relations arising from the naming of geographical features located in the territory of Georgia and the standardisation, use, registration, record-keeping and protection of names of geographical features. Natural or man-made geo-information units, administrative units of Tbilisi, historically formed districts, planning areas, certain zones, micro districts and any other territorial units; mountains, hills, ravines, rivers, lakes, springs; squares, avenues; highways, streets, lanes, dead ends, drives, embankments, esplanades, boulevards, alleys; public gardens, gardens, parks, forest parks, forests, urban cemeteries, pantheons, buildings and structures; and transport facilities located within the established administrative boundaries of the capital of Georgia, shall be named by a representative body of the local self-government of Tbilisi, in accordance with this Law and other normative acts. The Law further provides for competence of the executive authority of Georgia to establish, standardise, use, register, keep records of and protect geographical names; uniform requirements, norms and procedures in the field of names of geographical features; establishing names of geographical features; standardising and using names of geographical features; names of geographical features; restoring the names of or renaming geographical features; procedure for naming geographical features; registration and keeping records of the names of geographical features and State Catalogue of Geographical Names; protection of names of geographical features and responsibility for violations of this Law; and financing works related to the naming of geographical features.