Restoration of agricultural land

(1) The rights of the owners or their heirs on the agricultural lands, which they owned before the establishment of labor cooperative agricultural holdings or state agricultural holdings, shall be restored, regardless of whether they were included in them or in other agricultural organizations formed on their basis.

(2) The rights of the owners over the agricultural lands, nationalized under the repealed art. 12 of the Citizens' Property Act, after the return of the received monetary compensation.

(3) The rights of the owners, who have ceded their lands gratuitously to a labor cooperative agricultural holding or to the state, shall be restored.

(4) The rights of the owners over the agricultural lands shall be restored, when they have been taken away illegally.

(5) The rights of the owners on afforested and self-afforested agricultural lands shall be restored, including on the agricultural lands for which the owners are not reimbursed and they are included in the State Forest Fund, except for forest nurseries and forest protection belts. The restoration of the property is carried out by the order of art. 14, para. 1, item 1.

(6) The rights of the owners on the yards, managed by a labor cooperative agricultural farm, by a state agricultural farm or by other agricultural organizations formed on their basis as agricultural lands, in the deleted or abandoned settlements shall be restored.

(7) The rights of the owners on agricultural lands, owned before the establishment of labor cooperative agricultural holdings, state agricultural holdings, shall be restored, regardless of whether they have been included in them or in other agricultural organizations formed on their basis and included within the urbanized boundaries. territories (settlements) defined by a detailed development plan or by a landfill, unless third party buildings have been built on them in compliance with all regulatory requirements or if the right to build has been ceded and the legally permitted construction as of March 1, 1991 is started. The restoration of the property is carried out by the order of art. 14, para. 1, item 1.

(8) The rights of the owners of agricultural lands shall be restored up to the amounts determined under the repealed art. 8, para. 1 and Art. 10 of the Labor Land Ownership Act, including those expropriated under the Labor Land Ownership Act. For agricultural lands above these amounts the owners shall be compensated by the order of art. 35. The size limit also applies to cases where agricultural land has been confiscated by a judgment and the sentence has been overturned.

(9) At the request of the owners, the right of ownership over the lands nationalized as forests shall be restored, which shall be subsequently transformed into agricultural lands.

(10) The polluted, eroded, saline, acidified and surface wetted agricultural lands shall be returned to the owners, as the state shall bear the costs for their restoration. The funds for restoring the productive qualities of these lands, including for blocking the dangerous pollutants, are provided from the budget of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry according to an annual program approved by the Council of Ministers. The Council of Ministers determines the order and the ways for the clearing of the lands and the control over the polluted agricultural lands.

(11) The right of ownership of the persons landed under the Labor Land Ownership Act shall be restored, including to those who have not partially paid the due contributions, except for the landed ones.

(12) The rights of the owners shall be restored by the order of art. 14, para. 1, item 1 on the lands within and outside the borders of the urbanized territories (settlements), included in the farmyards of labor cooperative agricultural holdings, state agricultural holdings or other agricultural organizations formed on their basis, which are not built up or do not represent adjacent areas to buildings.

(13) The ownership of these lands owned by their owners before the establishment of labor cooperative agricultural holdings, state agricultural holdings or other agricultural organizations formed on their basis, which have been sold or given to third parties by these organizations or by other state or municipal bodies, except for the cases explicitly indicated under this law. Acquirers cannot rely on acquisitive prescription.

(14) The lands confiscated by their owners under the Ordinance-Law on Trial by the People's Court of the perpetrators of Bulgaria's involvement in the World War against the Allied Nations and the atrocities related to it shall also be subject to restoration. Amended, SG No. 261/1944, SG No. 9/1945), the Law on Confiscation of Property Acquired through Speculation and Illegally (SG, SG No. 78/1946), under the Law on collection of taxes and other state receivables (SG, issue 304 of 1948), Ordinance on collection of taxes and fees (Izv.

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