Law on Land Reclamation (No. 1-323 of 1993).

This Law regulates the design of land reclamation facilities, their use and protection, the financing and implementation of land reclamation works, legal relationships with respect to land reclamation.
The 15 articles of this Act are divided into 4 Chapters, i.e. General Regulations (I); Financing, state expert examination and supervision, cadaster of land reclamation (II); Rights and obligations of citizens of the Republic of Lithuania, organizations and users of land reclamation facilities (III); Liability for violations of the Law of Land Reclamation (IV). T
Land reclamation facilities are drainage, ditches, embankments and other hydrotechnic constructions, irrigation facilities and the local roads which are located in reclaimed areas (art. 1). Article 4 makes provision for the ownership and privatization of land reclamation facilities. The Ministry of Agriculture prepares programmes of land reclamation. Local state land reclamation agencies shall be owners of state land reclamation facilities (art. 5). Minor reclamation works, to be defined by the Ministry of Agriculture, shall be financed by landowners or users. Other land reclamation works shall be financed from the state budget (art. 7). The cadaster of reclaimed land and the cadaster of land reclamation facilities shall form an integrated part of the state land cadaster (art. 9). Legal and natural persons being users of land reclamation facilities have the right to be informed regarding land reclamation and to participate in discussions concerning programs and projects (art. 10). Landowners shall allow land reclamation facilities on their land which are needed to reclaim land of neighbours (art. 11). The Ministry of Agriculture prepares national development programs approved by the Government, in which reclamation measures are planned, organizes, coordinates and controls the implementation of these measures, sets reclamation priorities, coordinates state supervision of the use of reclamation works and reclamation structures, management of accounting for land reclamation, and the activities of institutions that manage reclamation structures under the right of trust in this area, together with the Ministry of the Environment, which is tasked with preparing construction technical regulations according to the Law on Construction, prepares normative documents for the design, construction, recognition of the structure as suitable for use of reclamation structures and approves them, determines the submission of technical documents for reclamation structures procedure for owners or other users of reclaimed land.