LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

of May 5, 1998 No. 154-Z

About the administrative-territorial device of the Republic of Belarus

It is accepted by the House of Representatives on April 9, 1998

Approved by Council of the Republic on April 17, 1998

Chapter 1. General provisions

Article 1. The main terms used in this Law and their determinations

For the purposes of this Law the following main terms and their determinations are used:

administrative and territorial unit - part of the territory of the Republic of Belarus (the area, the area, the Village Council, the city, the settlement of city type) in which borders according to the procedure, established by the legislation, are created and the local council of deputies and executive and administrative organ are effective. For each administrative and territorial unit the name and borders, and for the area, the area, the Village Council - also administrative center are established;

the administrative-territorial device of the Republic of Belarus (further - the administrative-territorial device) as unitary state - division of the territory of the Republic of Belarus into administrative and territorial units by certain criteria for the purpose of the effective organization of public administration and local self-government, law enforcement and law and order, realization of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of the citizens of the Republic of Belarus who are constantly living in the corresponding territory (further - citizens);

the administrative center of administrative and territorial unit - the settlement in which there are local council of deputies and executive and administrative organ;

settlement border - external line of the territory of the settlement which separates from its territory other territories;

the settlement - compactly populated part of the territory of the Republic of Belarus, the permanent address of citizens having activity of citizens, necessary for providing, residential and other buildings and constructions, the name and borders established in the appropriate order;

territorial unit - the settlement in which the local council of deputies and executive and administrative organ, the area in the city are not created, and also the territory of the special mode of use (the reserve, national park, the wildlife area, the nature sanctuary territory, the biospheric wildlife reserve, the earth of the historian - cultural purpose, the earth of defense, the free economic zone, other territory of the special mode of use created according to the decision of the President of the Republic of Belarus).

Article 2. Coverage of this Law

This Law governs the public relations connected with the solution of questions of education, consolidation and abolition of administrative and territorial units, the territorial units which are settlements, areas in the cities, their registration and accounting, establishment and change of their borders, and also other questions connected with the administrative-territorial device if other is not provided by part two of this Article.

Operation of this Law does not extend to the public relations connected with creation and abolition (liquidation) of the territories of the special mode of use and also with the solution of other questions concerning these territorial units, except the public relations connected with their registration and accounting.

The public relations connected with creation and abolition (liquidation) of the territories of the special mode of use and also with the solution of other questions concerning these territorial units, are regulated by the legislation on environmental protection and rational use of natural resources; in the field of protection and use of historical and cultural heritage; in the field of defense, homeland security, law-enforcement activities; about business, economic (economic) activity, other legislation.

Article 3. The legislation in the sphere of the administrative-territorial device

The legislation in the sphere of the administrative-territorial device is based on the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus and consists of this Law and other acts of the legislation, including international treaties of the Republic of Belarus.

If the international treaty of the Republic of Belarus establishes other rules, than those which are provided by this Law then are applied rules of the international treaty of the Republic of Belarus.

Article 4. Basic principles of the administrative-territorial device

The administrative-territorial device is based on the principles:

unity and inalienability of the territory of the Republic of Belarus as natural living conditions and spatial limit of self-determination of the people, basis of its welfare and sovereignty of the Republic of Belarus;

combinations of state interests and interests of citizens;

combinations of the single government of the Republic of Belarus to local self-government;

uniformity, balance and complexity of development of administrative and territorial units;

development planning of administrative and territorial units on the basis of complex accounting of the developing social, economic, ecological, town-planning and other conditions;

inclusions in structure of the territories of larger administrative and territorial units of the territories of less large administrative and territorial units;

varieties of legal statuses of administrative-territorial and territorial units according to their features, level of social and economic development and other factors;

publicity and accounting of opinion of citizens and local councils of deputies in case of the solution of questions of the administrative-territorial device.

Article 5. Financing of the expenses connected with change of the administrative-territorial device

Financing of the expenses connected with change of the administrative-territorial device is performed at the expense of means republican and local budgets according to the budget legislation.

Chapter 2. Administrative-territorial device

Article 6. Territories of administrative and territorial units

The territory of the Republic of Belarus is divided into the territory of the capital of the Republic of Belarus and the territory of areas as administrative and territorial units.

The territory of area is divided into the territories of areas and cities of regional subordination as administrative and territorial units.

The city territory for the purpose of the optimum organization of execution of the decisions connected with satisfaction welfare and household needs of citizens, protection of law and order and respecting the rule of law if necessary is divided into the areas in the city which are territorial units.

The territory of the area is divided into the territories of the Village Councils, settlements of city type and the cities of district subordination which are administrative and territorial units, the settlement of the city type which is territorial unit (if it is the administrative center of the area), the cities of district subordination which are territorial units.

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