LAW OF TURKMENISTAN

of April 18, 2009 No. 33-IV

About procedure for the solution of questions of administrative-territorial deleniyaturkmenistan

Article 1. General provisions

1. The territory of Turkmenistan is subdivided into welayats, the cities with the rights of the welayat and the state value, etraps, the cities with the rights of the etrap, city in the etrap, settlements, gengeshliks and villages. The territory of one or several villages forms the gengeshlik.

2. Education and abolition of welayats, etraps, etraps in the city, gengeshliks, reference of settlements to category of the cities, settlements, villages, their renaming, the solution of other questions of administrative-territorial division are performed by Majlis of Turkmenistan on representation of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan.

3. Assignment of the name, renaming and change of borders of administrative and territorial units is made taking into account state interests, geographical, historical, national, natural and other local conditions, and also opinion of the population.

Article 2. Settlements

1. Settlements of Turkmenistan are subdivided on city and rural.

2. The cities and settlements, to rural - villages belong to city settlements.

3. The cities are subdivided into the following categories: the cities with the rights of the welayat, etrap and city in the etrap.

Article 2-1. Legal status of administrative territorial units

1. Administrative and territorial units have the relevant legal status (status). The welayat, the etrap, the city, the settlement, the gengeshlik and the village are legal status of administrative and territorial units.

2. Considering value of long-term future development of the country, development in the city of transport, industrial, trade systems, systems of services, scientific and educational systems, health care systems, constructions, possibilities of carrying out in the city of actions at the international level, and also important nature of the projects which are performed in the city, to some cities special legal status - the city of the state value can be established.

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