Law No. 1402-XV on public municipal services.

This Law regulates the activity of public municipal services, including water abstraction and supply of potable water, sewage and thermal energy supply. Plots of land required for rendering of public municipal services shall be expropriated and transferred under public ownership. Public municipal services shall be based upon the following principles: (a) sustainability; (b) accountability and legality; (c) local autonomy; (d) decentralization; and (e) environmental protection and rational management of natural resources. Public municipal services shall be rendered in accordance with contracts. Governing bodies of public municipal services shall carry out activities in accordance with land use planning directives and environmental protection programmes. Public municipal services shall be charged.