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Law No. 45 Of 21 March 1930 Concerning General Population Census

Original Language Title:  LEGE nr. 45 din 21 martie 1930 privitoare la recensământul general al populaţiei

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LEGE no. 45 45 of 21 March 1930 on the general population census
ISSUER PARLIAMENT
Published in OFFICIAL MONITOR no. 66 66 of 21 March 1930



+ Article 1 The general census of the population will be made throughout the country, in one day, every 10 years since 1930. The day of the general census will be fixed by the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Protection by Royal Decree. + Article 2 The census will also be able to include a statistical investigation of commercial, industrial and agricultural enterprises. + Article 3 All individual sciences collected on the occasion of the census of the population will be confidential and used only for the purpose of the statistics. The statements obtained from the inhabitants will not be able to serve as proof before the judicial, fiscal or administrative bodies. The official who will disclose such sciences for purposes other than those of the statistical processing will be punished with imprisonment from 1-6 months and with a fine of 5,000-20,000 lei, apart from civil compensation to the damaged one. + Article 4 All the inhabitants of the country are obliged to communicate in writing or by mouth the information that will be asked to them by the census agents and controllers. + Article 5 The refusal to procure the sciences required in the country's population count, or the communication of non-accurate sciences, made with the intention to alter the truth or to prevent the works, constitute a contravention and will be punished with a fine of 200-2,000 lei. The compensation of the inhabitants to these deviations will be punished with the fine tenfold, and in case of repetition with imprisonment from 1-3 months. The punishment will be pronounced by the judge of detour of the offender's home, with the right of appeal within 8 days, at the county court. The contravention will be found by the minutes concluded by the controller or census agent, in front of a police agent. + Article 6 All officials of the State, counties, municipalities and urban and rural communes are obliged to serve, when they are called as statistical agents, to count and to work according to the instructions given to them. The civil servant who will deviate from this duty will be punished with a fine of 600-2,000 lei by the census commission. + Article 7 The general census of the population of 1930 and the future will be done with the contest of all the State bodies through the care and after the directives of the census commission that will be established for this purpose. The necessary expenses for the execution of the census of the population will be granted by opening extraordinary credits. For the preparation, execution and publication of the general census of the 1930 population will open on behalf of the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Protection, an extraordinary credit of 103,000,000 lei. + Article 8 Fines provided for in art. 3 and 5 of this law will be pursued according to the tracking law and will spill to the State. + Article 9 At least 6 months before the census is made, all communal authorities: municipalities, cities and rural communes, will take measures to review and complete the nomenclature of streets and roads, as well as for numbering houses. In case of refusal or delay in the performance of these duties, the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Protection, following the opinion of the census commission, will be able to proceed directly to the nomenclature works of streets and counting. to the houses, and the expense made on this occasion will be part of the office in the budget of the communal administration that neglected or refused to execute the obligation of the previous paragraph. + Article 10 All laws and regulations contrary to the present law are also repealed. A public administration regulation, prepared by the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Protection, after the opinion of the census committee, will determine the questions that will be asked of the population and will unravel the provisions contained in this law. Desbaters: Room No. 29-1929/30; Senate No. 17 and 18-1929/30. Voted by the Assembly of Deputies at 18 Fevruarie and the Senate on 5 March 1930. --------