Law No. 2209 on the protection of cultural heritage.

This Law is aimed at protecting Georgia’s cultural heritage and regulating legal relations in that regard. It covers all immovable monuments, separable parts of immovable monuments, objects with monument signs and immovable monument protection zones on the entire territory of Georgia, regardless of the form of ownership. Natural landscape protection zones and constructed environment regulation zones shall be classified as objects of cultural heritage. Natural landscape protection zones shall mean the territory protecting the natural and artificial landscape that provides optimal exposition to a monument. Constructed environment regulation zones shall mean territory that must meet the requirements of the historically formed spatio-compositional and structural planning system, architectural appearance, nature or scale of the finding, restoration and preservation. The territory must also meet the requirements on strengthening the significance of immovable monuments within urban development regulation zones and adapting new structures to the historical environment. Cultural heritage protection shall be exercised by government bodies, local and self-government bodies and legal and natural persons within the framework of the authority defined by the Law.