This Regional Law regulates the issues of allotment of public or municipal land to multi-child families in ownership free of charge for housing construction, country housing construction and subsidiary small-holding. It shall be applicable to families with three and more dependent children. The aforesaid plots of land shall be selected out of stock of available land in accordance with land-use planning documentation. The aforesaid plots of land shall be allotted to a family as common indivisible property.

This Regional Law envisages cases and establishes the modalities of allotment in ownership free of charge public and municipal land to citizens for subsistence farming and housing construction, and also establishes dimensions of land area authorized for allotment.

La présente loi réglemente le développement rural. Elle a pour objectifs: a) le renforcement de l'économie cantonale; b) la sauvegarde de la viabilité des espaces ruraux; c) l'atténuation des disparités régionales; d) le maintien d'une forte population rurale; e) la promotion d'une économie agricole efficace; f) le développement d'entreprises de type familial; g) une production saine et de qualité; h) la sauvegarde du patrimoine et la préservation de l'environnement. En outre, elle complète et met en oeuvre la législation fédérale, notamment la loi fédérale sur l'agriculture.

This Regional Law establishes cases of allotment of land plots free of charge in ownership to citizens with three and more children out of stock of public or municipal land. Land plots can be allotted to the aforesaid category of citizens for the following purposes: (a) individual housing construction; (b) suburban housing construction; (c) gardening and horticulture; (d) stockbreeding; and (e) farming.

This Regional Law establishes maximum land area limits for plots of agricultural land allotted on condition of ownership to citizens out of stock of public or municipal land as follows: (a) for peasant farming – 30 ha; (b) for horticulture, gardening, stockbreeding, suburban housing construction out of stock of low yield agricultural land – 1.500 square metres; and (c) for subsidiary smallholding – 5.000 square metres.

This Regional Law establishes that maximum land area of land plots allotted for subsidiary smallholding shall not exceed 2, 5 ha.

The present Law implements and completes the Federal Agriculture Act of 29 April 1998. The purpose of the present Law is to promote and improve the agriculture, including alpine economy, as well as to create a favourable framework for its sustainable development.

This Regional Law establishes plenary powers of state bodies in the sphere of state support of gardening, horticulture, subsidiary smallholding and non-commercial associations thereof. The scope of this Regional Law shall be as follows: (a) improvement of the efficiency of land tenure; (b) promotion of gardening, horticulture and subsidiary smallholding; (c) meeting the demand of regional population in agricultural commodities, vegetables and fruits; and (d) creation of favourable conditions for collective gardening, horticulture and smallholding.

This Regional Law regulates relations concerning turnover of agricultural land and shares of agricultural land in common property. Minimum land area of consolidated agricultural land plot shall be 0.5 ha. Maximum agricultural land area within the boundaries of a single administrative-territorial unit that can be owned by a single family with close relatives or by a single legal person of which make part a single family with close relatives shall not exceed 10 percent of total agricultural land area.

This Regional Law establishes cases of allotment free of charge in ownership of the plots of land pertaining to state or municipal property.

This Regional Law establishes that maximum land area that can be owned or held in tenancy by subsistence farmers shall be 19 ha.

Article 1 shall be amended to add the following wording: “The right to allotment on condition of ownership of public and municipal land free of charge for gardening, horticulture and suburban housing construction shall be granted to multi-child families, foster families growing three and more children (adopted and natural children) residing on the regional territory”.

Amends: Regional Law No. 809-OD “On allotment of public and municipal land to citizens free of charge”. (2009-06-23)