Law on land (No. 1-446).

Pays/Territoire: Lituanie
Type du document: Législation
Date: 1994 (2023)
Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Sujet: Terre et sols
Mot clé: Législation de base Régime foncier Propriété étrangère Propriété Propriété commune Droit d'usage Location Terrains agricoles Terrains urbains Cadastre/enregistrement des terres Expropriation Petits exploitants/paysans Terres publiques Contrat/accord
Aire géographique: Europe, Europe et Asie Centrale, Pays de l'Union Européenne, Europe du Nord

Résumé: This Act lays down basic provisions on land tenure, both urban and rural. land can be owned only by Lithuanian citizens, or by the State (art. 3). Private ownership of land conveys certain standard rights and privileges, amounting to the free and unimpeded enjoyment and disposition of the owner's property (art. 7). Usufructury rights accrue to the leaseholders of private and State-owned land (art. 8). All "land users" are subject to a number of obligations of general import, including, in particular, the obligation to "rationally utilise and preserve farming land areas of economic significance" (art. 9 and 39), and to make good any damage to the environment (art. 34). Furthermore, the use of the land and changes in land use are made subject to the over-riding restrictions of land use plans (art. 10, 31 and 39). The Act provides for the registration of real estate property and the issuing of written title (art. 12); the types of transactions in land -which must be made in writing- including sale, inheritance, mortgage (art. 13-20); the undivided ownership of land held in common (art. 25-29); the expropriation of private land for public purposes, in exchange for fair compensation calculated at local market prices, and apaid in cash or in kind (art. 32); the future mixing of the maximum allowable size of agricultural landholdings (art. 35, last paragraph); land survey and cadastering services (arts. 46-51); the responsibility of land users -including criminal liability- for failure to abide by legal provisions (art. 53); and the powers of the ordinary courts to hear and adjudicate land disputes (art. 56).The lease agreement of public land must be terminated before the deadline by the lessor requirement, if the lessee of the land uses the land not according to the principal purpose and/or method of land use/land tenure specified in the contract, or the main use of the land plot, specified in the contract, is changed, except for the case specified in Article 23, Part 8 of this Law. Opportunity to change the main purpose and/or method of land use, according to the procedure established by the Government in paragraph 8 of Article 23 of this Law in the specified case, must be stipulated in the state land lease agreement or its amendment.
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