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LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

of June 22, 1993 No. 1530-XII

About protection of monuments

(as amended on 09-08-2023)

The parliament of the Republic of Moldova adopts this law.

Chapter I General provisions

Art. 1. – (1) for the purposes of this law monuments are the immovable cultural values (further – monuments) which are the certificate of development of civilization in the territory of the Republic of Moldova, and also spiritual, political, economic and social development and entered in the Register of the monuments of the Republic of Moldova protected by the state (further – the Register of monuments), and in registers of monuments of local value.

(2) All monuments located in the territory of the Republic of Moldova are part of its cultural property and are protected by the state.

(3) treat the monuments which are part of cultural property:

a) works of monumental architecture, sculpture, elements or structures of archaeological type, text, grottoes and groups of elements having national or international value from the historical, art or scientific point of view;

b) complexes: groups of separate or group constructions, including building zones which thanks to the architecture, landscape unity and integrity have national or international value from the historical, town-planning, art or scientific point of view;

c) landscapes: the creations of the person or the work created as a result of interaction of the person and the nature and also the zones including archaeological areas which have national or international value from the historical, town-planning, esthetic, ethnographic or anthropological point of view.

(4) Protection of monuments irrespective of their mode of property is the activities which are of public interest.

Art. 2. – (1) the category of single monuments joins structures, constructions or structures representing different functional programs (defense, residential, cult, social, administrative, trade, scientific, educational, industrial and engineering), structures of rural architecture, historical or ethnoanthropological value, historical and memorial structures, and also structures of art and funeral nature.

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