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Law No. 744 Of 2 November 1940 On The Establishment And Organisation Of Civil Columbofile Resorts

Original Language Title:  LEGE nr. 744 din 2 noiembrie 1940 privind înfiinţarea şi organizarea staţiunilor columbofile civile

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LEGE no. 744 744 of 2 November 1940 on the establishment and organisation of the civil Colombian resorts
ISSUER PARLIAMENT
Published in OFFICIAL MONITOR no. 257 257 of 2 November 1940



+ Title I General provisions + Article 1 This law aims to organize and guide the breeders of passenger pigeons so that these pigeons can be used in the interest of the National Defence. + Article 2 They are counted pigeons travelers, within the meaning of the present law, pigeons who have skills to be used as news carriers. + Title II Organization of national columbophilia + Article 3 Columbophilia consists of military columbophilia and civil columbophilia. + Article 4 The military Columbophilia comprises the army's columbophile organizations and leads after the military regulations in force. + Article 5 Civil Columbophilia includes all civil Colombian societies as well as all private pigeon owners in the country and are divided into two groups:-Group I: breeders or owners of pigeon travellers of the Belgian breed;- Group II: breeders or owners of pigeons, who although not of a Belgian breed, have the skills to be used as news carriers. Pigeons who do not have the skills to be used as news carriers are not included in this law. + Article 6 Within 2 months from the entry into force of this law, the "National Columbophile Union" will be established, based in the Country Capital and in which all the columbophile companies possessing pigeons from the country will be registered. The Ministry of Agriculture and Domains in agreement with the Ministry of National Defence will prepare the statutes and the constitutive act of the National Columbophile Union and will fulfill the forms for obtaining the quality of legal person + Article 7 The Ministry of National Defence has the right of guidance and control of the National Columbophile Union, as will be shown in the statutes and the Constitutional Act of the Union, as well as in the regulation of this law + Title III Establishment of the civil pigeon-pigeon resorts + Chapter 1 Authorization for the establishment of civil columbophile resorts + Article 8 Anyone who wants to set up or maintain a farmed pigeon farm, to own, to receive under any title as: donations, loan, pledge, safekeeping, etc. to ship, to trade in passenger pigeons, must obtain in advance Authorization of the Ministry of National Defence (General Inspectorate of Genius) Existing columbophile companies, as well as breeders ' individuals or holders of passenger pigeons, on the date of entry into force of this law, are obliged to ask for authorization within 3 months from the date of entry into force of this law. + Article 9 This authorization is granted by the Ministry of National Defence, only to persons who meet the following conditions: a) Be major; b) To be a Romanian citizen, of Romanian ethnic origin; c) Not to have been convicted of murder or offence against the safety of the State; d) Not to have been convicted of any of the offences provided for in this Law; e) Obtained the favourable opinion provided for by Article 10 of the Garrison Command. + Article 10 The application for authorization is addressed, in order to give its opinion, to the Garrison Command, where the applicant resides. The application shall be accompanied by the following: a) The birth act; b) Act of nationality; c) Certificate from the Office of the Local Judicial Records, from which to find that he was not convicted of any of the facts provided for in Article 9 of this law; d) Certificate from the National Columbophile Union, from which it is noted that it is a member of a columbophile company registered in the Union. + Article 11 Foreigners, of any nationality, cannot establish on the territory of the country the columbophile resorts and do not own under any title passenger pigeons. Foreigners who will possess passenger pigeons, on the date of entry into force, of this law, will surrender within 15 days from this date all pigeons, military authorities or the nearest military columbophile resort, and within 30 days. days are obliged to liquidate; in case of sale the Ministry of National Defence will have the right of preference at equal price. + Chapter 2 Duties of the owners of pigeons + Article 12 Companies or persons authorized to establish breeders, to hold or receive under any title, to ship or trade in passenger pigeons, shall have the following duties: a) To provide to all pigeons a ring of identity, procured through the Ministry of National Defence; b) To train the pigeons according to the technical directives given by the Ministry of National Defence; c) Have a control register kept up to date with any transmission or receipt of pigeons; d) To keep the register at the disposal of the military authorities whenever necessary. + Title IV Protection and safety measures + Chapter 1 Protection measures + Article 13 Mixed breeders in which pigeons travel with necalers are prohibited. + Article 14 It is forbidden to use passenger pigeons for shooting in pigeons. + Article 15 It is forbidden to kill passenger pigeons except in cases and in the conditions established by the rules of the columbophile law. + Chapter 2 Safety measures + Article 16 Who will catch a traveling pigeon that does not belong to him, is obliged to hand him over to the nearest military authority, which will comply with the prescriptions of the rules of the columbophile law. + Article 17 The tax, transit and export of passenger pigeons is admitted only with the approval of the Ministry of National Defence. + Article 18 It is forbidden to increase passenger pigeons in border areas, established by law and regulation for the creation of military areas, the Ministry of National Defence will also be able to establish other areas where the growth of passenger pigeons is prohibited. + Article 19 It is prohibited to replace, counterfeits, abolish or dispose of identity rings distributed through the Ministry of National Defence (General Inspectorate of Genius). + Title V Rights of + Article 20 Control and safety measures in relation to columbophilia return to the Ministry of National Defence (General Inspectorate of Genius). + Article 21 The control and measures in relation to the protection of civil columbophilia shall return to the Ministry of Agriculture and + Title VI Criminal provisions-Competence + Chapter 1 Criminal provisions + Article 22 Offences to the dispositions provided by art. 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19, will be punished with correctional imprisonment from 1-6 months and with a fine of 1,000-50,000 lei. + Article 23 Offences to the dispositions provided by art. 11, will be punished with correctional imprisonment from 6 months to 2 years and with a fine of 10,000-100,000 lei, while mandatory by sentencing, expulsion of the offender after the punishment will be executed. + Article 24 The use of pigeons as liaison agents, in order to provide a foreign State with news in relation to the military, certainly and the defense of the territory of the State, is counted the crime of high treason and is punishable by hard labor from 40-25 years and civic degradation from 3-10 years. If the offence is committed by an offender with the conviction decision, obligingly, the expulsion of the offender will also be pronounced after the execution of the sentence. + Article 25 In time of mobilization or war, the penalties provided in art. 22 and 23, will be bent, and the punishment provided for in art. 24 will be hard labor for life. + Chapter 2 Competition + Article 26 The crimes provided for in this law are the jurisdiction of ordinary courts in time of peace and the jurisdiction of military courts in time of mobilization or war. + Title VII Final provisions + Article 27 A regulation prepared by the Ministry of National Defence, in agreement with the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains, will provide for the application of this law. ---------------