Regulations of Liaocheng Municipality on the Protection and Management of Cultural Relics

Chapter I General Provisions Article 1 In order to strengthen the protection and management of cultural relics in our city and inherit excellent historical and cultural heritage, according to the Law on the Protection of Cultural Relics in People's Republic of China (PRC), the Law on the Protection of Heroes and Martyrs in People's Republic of China (PRC), the Regulations for the Implementation of the Law on the Protection of Cultural Relics in People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Regulations on the Protection of Cultural Relics in Shandong Province, combined with the actual situation of this city. Article 2 These Regulations shall apply to the protection, management, utilization and related activities of cultural relics within the administrative area of this Municipality. Article 3 The work of cultural relics shall follow the principles of giving priority to protection, giving priority to rescue, rational utilization and strengthening management, and the principles of territorial management and graded responsibility. Article 4 The people's governments of cities and counties (cities, districts) shall be responsible for the protection and management of cultural relics within their respective administrative areas, and shall incorporate the protection and management of cultural relics into the national economic and social development plan and the national land and space plan.

City and county (city, district) departments in charge of cultural relics shall supervise and manage the protection of cultural relics within their respective administrative areas.

Development and reform, administrative examination and approval, public security, finance, natural resources and planning, housing and urban construction, retired military affairs, ethnic and religious affairs, education and sports, party history documents, emergency management, fire rescue, water administration, market supervision and management, customs, comprehensive administrative law enforcement and other departments shall perform their duties of cultural relics protection according to law, maintain the order of cultural relics management, and do a good job in cultural relics protection and management.

Township people's governments and sub-district offices shall carry out the protection and management of cultural relics under the guidance of the competent departments of cultural relics in counties (cities, districts). Villagers' committees and residents' committees shall assist township people's governments and sub-district offices in the protection of cultural relics. Article 5 The municipal and county (city, district) departments in charge of cultural relics shall, according to the actual needs of national economic and social development planning, land and space planning and cultural relics protection and management, jointly with the natural resources and planning departments at the same level, organize the preparation of special plans for cultural relics protection and management, and publish them after being approved by the municipal and county (city, district) people's governments. Article 6 The people's governments of cities and counties (cities, districts) shall include the funds needed for the protection of cultural relics in the fiscal budget at the corresponding level, and establish a dynamic growth mechanism for the funds for the protection of cultural relics according to the needs of economic development and cultural relics management.

Cultural relics protection funds are mainly used for the following expenditures:

(a) cultural relics investigation, protection and management planning, expert consultation and archaeological investigation, exploration and excavation undertaken by the government, and necessary environmental improvement within the scope of cultural relics protection;

(two) the protection and repair of state-owned immovable cultural relics, safety protection, fire control facilities construction, display and utilization, and the employment of cultural relics protection personnel;

(3) Exhibition and renovation of state-owned museums, collection of cultural relics, protection and restoration of cultural relics and specimens;

(four) non-state-owned immovable cultural relics protection and repair subsidies;

(five) the relevant expenses of the person in charge of protection and management;

(six) scientific research, publicity and education, commendation and awards for the protection and management of cultural relics;

(seven) other expenses that should be charged from the funds for the protection of cultural relics according to the regulations.

The institutional income of state-owned museums, memorial halls and cultural relics protection units shall be used for the development of cultural relics protection. Seventh departments in charge of cultural relics shall, in conjunction with education, retired military affairs, news media and other relevant departments, publicize and popularize laws and regulations and knowledge of cultural relics protection, and raise the awareness of cultural relics protection in the whole society. Article 8 Citizens, legal persons and other organizations are encouraged to carry out voluntary service activities for the protection of cultural relics, and the departments in charge of cultural relics shall give necessary guidance and support.

Citizens, legal persons and other organizations are encouraged to set up cultural relics protection funds through donations and other means to be used exclusively for cultural relics protection. Article 9 The people's governments of cities and counties (cities, districts) shall strengthen the construction of cultural relics protection management teams, and make overall plans for the management, use, training and introduction of professionals to adapt them to the development of cultural relics protection management.

The establishment of cultural relics protection management expert database, to provide professional advice for the protection, management and utilization of cultural relics. Article 10 The people's governments of cities and counties (cities, districts) shall commend and reward organizations or individuals that have made outstanding contributions to the protection of cultural relics in accordance with regulations. Chapter II Protection and Utilization of Cultural Relics Section 1 General Protection Provisions Article 11 The municipal and county (city, district) cultural relics departments shall organize a general survey of cultural relics in accordance with the regulations, do a good job in regular cultural relics investigation, timely identify and register cultural relics found according to law, and organize the declaration and grading.

Other departments and units shall take the initiative to inform the municipal and county (city, district) departments in charge of cultural relics and protect them when they find valuable potential cultural relics resources within their jurisdiction; Belonging to the subject of the application for cultural relics identification, it shall timely submit an application for cultural relics identification to the municipal and county (city, district) cultural relics authorities.

Encourage citizens, legal persons and other organizations to apply for cultural relics identification to the municipal and county (city, district) cultural relics departments. Twelfth according to the historical, artistic and scientific value of cultural relics, in accordance with legal procedures, immovable cultural relics can be declared, approved and announced as national key cultural relics protection units and provincial, municipal and county cultural relics protection units; Movable cultural relics can be declared as first-class, second-class and third-class cultural relics and general cultural relics.

Unexamined and announced as cultural relics protection units and newly discovered immovable cultural relics shall be registered and announced by the cultural relics administrative department of the county (city, district) in time, and managed with reference to the cultural relics protection units at the county level.

Municipal cultural relics protection units by the Municipal People's government submitted to the provincial people's government for the record. County-level cultural relics protection units shall be reported by the local county (city, district) people's government to the Municipal People's government and the provincial people's government for the record.