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Law No. 187 Of 23 March 1945 For The Realization Of Agrarian Reform

Original Language Title:  LEGE nr. 187 din 23 martie 1945 pentru înfăptuirea reformei agrare

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LEGE No. 187 of March 23, 1945 for the implementation of the agrarian reform
ISSUER AGRICULTURE MINISTRY
Published in OFFICIAL MONITOR NO. 68 bis of March 23, 1945



+ Chapter 1 Purpose of the law (General provisions) + Article 1 Agrarian reform is for our country a national, economic and social necessity. Romania's agriculture will support strong, healthy and productive households, on households that are the private property of those who master them. + Article 2 The aim of the reform is: a) Increase of arable areas of existing peasant households, which have less than 5 ha; b) Creation of new individual peasant households for agricultural workers without land; c) Establishment by the proximity of cities and industrial localities, of vegetable gardens for the supply of workers, officials and craftsmen; d) Reservation of land for agricultural schools and experimental farms model in order to raise the level of agricultural crops, selected seed production, cattle breeding and creation and degeneration of the agricultural industry, land that will be under State administration. + Chapter 2 Expropriation + Article 3 In order to achieve the agrarian reform, they pass on the State to be divided by the plugins entitled to impropriety and to constitute the reserves provided in art. 2 2, point c and d, the following agricultural goods with the living and dead inventory affected; a) The lands and agrarian properties of any kind belonging to German citizens and Romanian citizens, natural or legal persons, of German nationality (ethnic origin), who collaborated with Hitler Germany. b) The lands and other properties of war criminals and those responsible for the disaster of the country; c) The lands of those who took refuge in the countries with which Romania is in a state of war or took refuge abroad after August 23, 1944; d) Land and all agricultural goods of absentees; e) Land of those who in the last seven consecutive years have not cultivated their lands in their own direction, except for lots up to 10 ha; f) Agricultural goods of any kind of Romanian citizens who have volunteered to fight against the United Nations; g) Dead hand goods. h) Prisosul of agricultural land constituting properties of individuals exceeding the area of 50 ha, namely: arable land, orchards, meadows, puddles and artificial ponds, whether or not they serve for fishing, swamps and Flood lands. + Article 4 The constructions, mansions, arches, roads, orchards and any works of land improvements, with all their installations, will be included in the 50 ha quota, provided in art. 3, item h, the owner having the right to choose the quota reserved for the dinsul where he wanted, but in one place. + Article 5 It shall be considered as a single agricultural property in respect of the application of 3 3, point h: a) Agricultural land belonging to the same owner, located in different parts of the country; b) Agricultural properties of the husband and wife. If the wife has separate property from her husband, inherited or received as dowry before or after marriage and proven with papers, she will remain on wife 10 ha, with the discretion of the spouses to reserve their legal quotas from one or both of them. properties, after their good deal; c) Agricultural properties of parents and minor children; d) Agricultural goods in co-ownership. + Article 6 Tractors, batos, locomotives, harvesters and combinations on agricultural goods provided for in art. 3, pass on the State, which will create county centers for rent agricultural machinery at the disposal of farmers. The other agricultural and animal traction tools pass on the State, proportional to the area of expropriated agricultural land and will be given to the impropriety peasants. + Article 7 All agricultural goods shown in art. 3 and 6 pass immediately, without any compensation, fully, in the property of the State, for the purposes shown in art. 2. + Chapter 3 Exceptions to expropriations + Article 8 They are exempted from expropriation and left in the property of the current holders: the existing rice, the agricultural goods belonging to monasteries, metropolitan, bishops, churches, parishes and church settlements, the goods of the Domains The crown, of the hospitals and of the hospital settlements, as well as those of the Romanian Academy, the House of the Scoals and the other cultural settlements, of the composesorates, the urbariats, the obstas and the village cooperatives, also the meadows and pastures belonging to the communes and in general all the goods being part of the patrimony State. + Chapter 4 Procedure for expropriation and impropriety + Article 9 The mayors of the rural communes are obliged within 10 days from the publication of the present law in the Official Gazette to meet in general assembly all the peasants ploughing from the respective commune, without land or having up to 5 ha, land property, for the selection of the local impropriety committee, composed of 7-15 members. The result of the election will be entered in a minutes signed by all those present. + Article 10 For the purpose of working with the State bodies, for the implementation of the agrarian reform, net commissions are created to coordinate the work of the agrarian reform and decide on the differences between villages and communes, as well as between the owners and those entitled to impropriety, disputes arising from the application of the agrarian reform. The net commissions shall be composed of the members delegated by the local committees, each Committee sending two delegates each. Net committees may admit entitlement to impropriety and from another net. The chairman of the agrarian reform net committee will be delegated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains. He can be a magistrate or jurist. + Article 11 The local committees on the communes make the tables of agricultural goods to be passed on to the State, the tables of those entitled to impropriety and the distribution of agricultural inventory passed on the State, as well as the tables of the communes devoid of pasture. + Article 12 The improprietors will have primacy of the soldiers who are focused or mobilized and all those who fought against Hitler Germany. + Article 13 The county prefecture, following the conclusion of the impropriety works, will issue the title of property to the impropriety, as well as the communes for the islazes, on the lots assigned to them. + Article 14 The size of the lots of new households created as the size of the small household lots will be determined in relation to the existing land reserve within the net. Also in terms of fanettes and islazes. + Article 15 The size of the impropriety lots will not pass 5 ha, apart from the displacement cases in order to impropriety in other regions, when the lots will be able to be larger. Their measurement will be certified by the organs of the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains. + Article 16 The price of the land for impropriety will be equal to an annual average harvest per hectare, as follows: In wheat: 1,000 kg. In corn: 1,200 kg. New owners pay in money or in nature 10% of the purchase price, the rest of the purchase price will be paid in installments, as follows: For those with little land, in 10 years. For those without land, in 20 years. In case of payment in money, the price will be that of wheat on the free market on March 1, 1945. + Article 17 Those without land can get from the prefecture, after the resolution of the net commission for agrarian reform, an amination of the payment of the first rate for a term up to 3 years. + Article 18 In cases where the division of the estates was made until the date of publication of the present law, the local impropriety committee will draw up new paintings, in accordance with the present law. The picture of those entitled will be submitted to the prefecture of the county, so that with the issuance of the title of property, the registration of the property will be made in the land book or in the finding registers of the property. All registration documents are exempt from any taxes, fees or stamps. + Chapter 5 Final provisions + Article 19 The legal situation of the properties, for the application of this law, is that found on August 23, 1944, with the exception of subsequent legal proceedings. The sowing carried out from autumn 1944 is to be harvested by those who sowed. + Article 20 Households created under this decree-law cannot be divided, sold, leased, or mortgaged, neither in their entirety nor in part. In exceptional cases, new created households can be sold, leased, divided or mortgaged, only with the opinion of the Ministry of Agriculture. + Article 21 The impromptu gets the land free from any debts and obligations. Mortgage debts and all that encumbered property expropriated will be regular by special decree-law. + Article 22 The farms found by the Ministry of Agriculture as model farms, will be created, by the regulation of the law, a special regime, from case to case. + Article 23 The regime of forests and vineyards will be subject to a special law. + Article 24 A regulation will establish all the issues of detail for the application of this law. + Article 25 The Minister of Agriculture and Areas is responsible for the application of this decree-law. + Article 26 This decree shall enter into force on the day of its publication. -------------------