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Republic of Lithuania Republic of Lithuania Law on Assignment and Transfer of Part of State Property to the Ownership of Local Governments (Municipalities) 20 December, 1994 No. I-713 I. General provisions Article

1. Pursuant to this law, a part of state property shall be assigned to higher level of local governments to carry out the functions established by law. This law also establishes the procedure for the transfer of said property. Article
2. State property shall be transferred to local governments without compensation or consideration of the place of location thereof, within the territory administrated by another local government. Some objects of property can be transferred to the jurisdiction of more than one local government by the right of joint common ownership. II. Composition of State Property to be Assigned to the Ownership of Local Governments (Municipalities) Article
3. The following property shall be transferred to local governments: Enterprises the founders of which are local governments (special purpose companies, municipal enterprises and non-profit enterprises), as well as state shares held by local governments in these enterprises, and municipal shares in closed stock companies: 1) apartment maintenance and repair workshops (apartment and hostel and dormitory maintenance, emergency services); 2) enterprises of maintenance of general purpose facilities of municipal economy (municipal economy and public utitilities services, road and street engineering equipment, communications maintenance and repair enterprises, city lighting companies, landscaping maintenance services, waste water treatment enterprises, special transport enterprises, enterprises for decorative greenery growing for city use, life-saving and cemetery care services); 3) enterprises of household public services (laundries, saunas, dry cleaners, hairdressing parlours); 4) retail sale enterprises (food shops and other retail sale companies); 5) water supply companies (with the exception of independent industrial water supply companies); 6) heating companies; 7) transportation utilities (bus and trolley-bus fleets); 8) ritual services; 9) preventive disinfection services;
4. state property (fixed assets, material stock, financial resources, etc.) held by the following municipal institutions: 1) pre-school and kindergarten institutions, primary and secondary schools of general education, adults' schools, centres and youth schools; 2)additional (self-expression) education establishments (arts and music, sports training schools, student centres, children's clubs, station facilities for technicians, tourists, naturalists); 3) libraries; 4) museums and galleries; 5) institutions and clubs for leisure activities; 6) theatres and studios for theatrical and musical performances; 7) municipal TV stations, local radio centres; 8) local hospitals, policlinics with the status of a legal entity, (regional hospitals, care and first-aid facilities) short-term health care facilities (city and regional clinics and short-term care, medical stations and medical and obstetrical stations) and other local and short-term primary health care facilities, designated by law ; 9) Public primary health care institutions established by law; 10) guardianship and nursing care institutions (indigent care and shelter facilities); 11) institutions of education, culture, primary health care and social guardianship services (centralised accounting offices, method formulator offices, rural sections, and video-libraries);
5. Social purpose facilities and other assets attributed to the sheets of local governments: 1) non-privatised apartment fund of local governments including, the heating network, a part of the underground communications collectors structure, and boiler structure clusters; 2) premises of local governments, or parts of buildings snd separate offices necessary to perform local government functions; 3) City and settlement facilities for general purpose utilities necessary to perform the functions of local governments: local roads and side streets with supplementary constructions (bridges, viaducts, underground and surface passages, stairs, bus stops, support structures, public transport stop areas, pavillions and technical equipment for traffic regulation, engineering equipment and communications); lighting oequipment for towns and settlements; green areas with buildings and facilities contained therein; equipment and buildings for water reservoirs; water reservoirs and network, water pumping and filtering stations, sewage networks, waste water networks; river embankments and relevant equipment and stream regulation buildings; beaches and buildings, life-saving stations with buildings and equipment; cemeteries with buildings, greenery and equipment; decorative vegetation areas for city general purpose services and greenhouses; monuments, sculptures, fountains and small architectural objects; waste dumping sites with access roads; boiler houses and heating networks. 4) sports equipment (sites, stadiums with buildings, equipment etc.); 5) unfinished buildings (with estimated planning documentation) necessary to perform the functions of local governments. III. The Order of Transfer of Property Assigned to the Ownership of Local Governments (Municipalities) Article
6. According to this law, the Government of Lithuania shall transfer the property assigned to local governments to every municipality separately through persons authorised by a decree. The property assigned to each municipality shall be transferred, pursuant to lists specifying services of enterprises, offices and other immovable property, lists of long- term assets and descriptions of the remaining balance value of property in cash, money in accounts of the banks of Lithuania and foreign countries as well as cash, (in litas as well as foreign currency) liabilities to debtors and creditors, shares and other securities and short term assets in their monetary expression. Separate objects of real property assigned to the ownership of local governments pursuant to paragraph 3 of Art. 3 of this law, shall be transferred in accordance to a transfer-acceptance register. Transfer registers shall be signed by a person authorised by the Government of Lithuania or mayor of the town or district governor. IV. Final Provisions Article
7. The right of ownership of local government to the transferred real property property shall come into force from the legal registration thereof. Article
8. Property shall be managed, used and disposed of by local governments on the basis of the laws and other legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania. Article
9. This law shall be enforced by the Law of the Republic of Lithuania "On the Enforcement of the "Law on the Assignment and Transfer of Part of State Property to the Ownership of Local Governments (Municipalities)". I promulgate this Law passed by the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania. Algirdas Brazauskas President of the Republic