LAW OF THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC

of April 25, 2008 No. 65

About the administrative-territorial device of the Kyrgyz Republic

Accepted by Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic on March 6, 2008

This Law determines concept, the principles of the administrative-territorial device of the Kyrgyz Republic (further - the administrative-territorial device), procedure for the solution of questions of the administrative-territorial device, power of public authorities and local self-government in case of the solution of questions of education and abolition of administrative and territorial units, establishments and changes of their borders, accounting and registration of administrative-territorial and territorial units, and also other questions connected with the administrative-territorial device.

Chapter 1 General provisions

Article 1. The basic concepts used in this Law

In this Law the following basic concepts are used:

the administrative-territorial device of the Kyrgyz Republic is division of the territory into administrative and territorial units for the purpose of the organization of effective public administration and local self-government;

the administrative and territorial unit is the territory determined by the law including the territory of one or several settlements and other not populated territories in which public authorities or local self-government exercise respectively public administration or self-government;

settlements - the cities, villages and other settlements formed according to the procedure, determined by the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic;

categories of settlements - set of the administrative and territorial units having the certain status established by the law;

area - the administrative and territorial unit uniting the territories of the cities of regional value, and also areas located in the territory of this area in which public administration taking into account interests of local communities and competence of local government bodies is exercised;

the area - the administrative and territorial unit uniting villages, the cities of district value located in the established borders of this area in which public administration taking into account interests of local communities and competence of local government bodies is exercised;

the city is administrative and territorial unit in townscape of republican, regional and district value in which the local community performs local self-government according to the procedure, established by the Constitution and the laws of the Kyrgyz Republic;

the ayylny aimag is the administrative and territorial unit consisting of one or several villages in which the local community performs local self-government according to the procedure, established by the Constitution and the laws of the Kyrgyz Republic;

the paragraph the tenth ceased to be valid according to the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic of 18.07.2024 No. 129

ayyl - the settlement which reached certain level of improvement with population at least 50 people from whom occupied in agricultural production and members of their families constitute at least a half of the population.

Article 2. Concept of the administrative-territorial device

The administrative-territorial device is division of the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic into administrative and territorial units for the purpose of the organization of effective public administration and local self-government, law enforcement and law and order, realization of freedoms, the rights and legitimate interests of citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic.

Article 3. Basic principles of the administrative-territorial device

The administrative-territorial device is based on the principles:

- unity and inalienability of the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic;

- combinations of state interests and interests of the population living in the corresponding territory;

- implementation by public authorities and local self-government of the powers within borders of the corresponding administrative and territorial units;

- balance and complexity of development of administrative and territorial units;

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

- determinations of legal status of administrative and territorial units according to their purpose, local features, level of social and economic development and other factors;

- publicity and accounting of public opinion in case of the solution of questions of the administrative-territorial device.

Article 4. Administrative and territorial unit

The administrative and territorial unit consists of the territories of one or several settlements and other not populated territories within which public authorities or local self-government exercise public administration or self-government.

For the purpose of determination of spatial limits, competences of relevant organs of the government and local self-government for each administrative and territorial unit are established the name, borders and the administrative center.

The territories of the cities of republican value 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 are divided into the areas which are not independent administrative and territorial units.

Article 5. Settlements

The settlement is compactly populated part of the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic which is the permanent address of citizens, having activity of citizens of the building and construction, necessary for providing, own name and the territorial borders established in the appropriate order and also considered and registered according to the procedure, established by the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic.

Settlements are subdivided on city and rural.

The cities belong to city settlements (republican, regional and district value, to rural - villages irrespective of their administrative subordination.

The small settlements having temporary value and changeable structure of the population or being subjects to office appointment (the house of foresters, field camps, meteorological stations, houses of masters of road sites, houses of shepherds on distant pastures, etc.), and also the single yards are not independent settlements and are registered for those settlements with which they are connected in the economic, administrative and territorial relation.

Settlements belong to certain categories depending on the number of the living population and the level of development and specialization of production and welfare infrastructure.

Settlements in which there are public authorities and local self-government, authorized to exercise control of the corresponding administrative and territorial unit, are the administrative centers of administrative and territorial units.

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