Heritage Conservation Act.

The Heritage Conservation Act regulates the rights and obligations of state and local government authorities and owners and possessors of cultural monuments in organising the protection of monuments and heritage conservation areas and in ensuring the preservation of monuments and heritage conservation areas. A monument is a movable or immovable, a part thereof, a body of things or an integral group of structures under state protection which is of historical, archaeological, ethnographic, urban developmental, architectural, artistic or scientific value or of value in terms of religious history or of other cultural value and due to which it is designated as a monument pursuant to the procedure provided for in this Act. Immovable monuments include sites (areas) and natural features of historical value. It is prohibited to destroy or damage monuments. Monitors whose rights and duties are determined by the Minister of Culture shall participate in heritage conservation on their own initiative. Information relating to monuments shall be entered in the national register of cultural monuments. Heritage conservation areas shall be designated on the proposal of the Minister of Culture by a regulation of the Government of the Republic which provides the boundaries of the heritage conservation area and its protected zone and sets out the date on which the heritage conservation area was first designated as being protected under heritage conservation.