Law “On urban land reform”.

Land reform shall be intended a planned, gradual reorganization of land ownership and land use relations process and it shall be applicable to any territory, including territory under forests and under water. Land use plan shall be intended a land use plan that specifies the boundaries, area and engineering improvements, as well as prospective amendments to these territories for the implementation of objects significant for the community. The aim of land reform is to reorganize the legal, social and economic relations of land ownership and land use in cities through the gradual denationalization, conversion, privatization and return of illegally alienated land properties, in order to promote the formation of urban development that meets the interests of society, land protection and rational use. The tasks of land reform are: (a) to create a legal basis for regulating land relations and protecting the rights and obligations of land owners and tenants; (b) to restore the ownership rights to land or to transfer the land into ownership, as well as to grant land for use; and (c) to ensure the inviolability of land plot boundaries with the help of land registers and cadastral documents. Land reform shall be carried out in three stages: (a) first round — acceptance of land requests; (b) second round — restoration of land ownership rights, land use planning and land use rights forced termination; and (c) third stage — transfer of land into ownership and allocation for use. Land ownership rights are restored: (a) to natural persons - former land owners or their heirs - on land plots that they owned within the current administrative borders of the cities of 21 July 1940, regardless of the citizenship of the applicants; (b) to legal entities - former landowners - on land plots that belonged to them in 1940 July 21, if the court establishes the fact of inheritance of rights in accordance with the procedures specified by law; and (c) to legal entities, if former land owners have bequeathed their land properties to them by will. Former land owners or their heirs shall be exempt from state duty if their property rights have been recognized by court decision. Land ownership and land use relations shall be settled on the basis of the city master plan approved by the city council, the land development project and the established model land values. The city land commission shall determine the restrictions on the use of land ownership in the course of land reform on the basis of this Law, the building regulations approved by the city council and other separate laws or court decisions.