Decree No. 18/2020/ND-CP penalties for administrative violations against regulations on land surveying

DECREE

On penalties for administrative violations against topographic and cartographic regulations

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Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the Government dated June 19, 2015;

Pursuant to the Law on Handling Administrative Violations dated June 20, 2012;

Pursuant to the Law on Topography and Cartography dated June 14, 2018;

At the request of the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment;

The Government promulgates the Decree on penalties for administrative violations against topographic and cartographic regulations. 

Chapter I

GENERAL PROVISIONS 

Article 1. Scope of regulation

1. This Decree prescribes administrative violations, forms and levels of penalties and consequence improvement measures; jurisdictions to impose penalties and make records of administrative violations against topographic and cartographic regulations. 

2. Other administrative violations against topographic and cartographic regulations which are not prescribed in this Decree shall comply with the provisions of the Government's Decrees on penalties for administrative violations within other relevant scopes of State management.

Article 2. Subjects of application 

1. This Decree applies to domestic and foreign organizations and individuals that commit administrative violations against topographic and cartographic regulations in the territory of the Socialist Republic Vietnam; persons with the jurisdiction to make records and impose penalties on administrative violations; agencies, organizations and individuals related to sanctioning of administrative violations against topographic and cartographic regulations according to the provisions hereof. 

2. Organizations which can be imposed with administrative penalties hereof: 

a) Enterprises being established and operating under Vietnamese laws; branches and representative offices of foreign enterprises operating in Vietnam;  

b) Public service providers; 

c) Non-public service providers; 

d) Cooperatives and unions of cooperatives; 

dd) Foreign contractors who are organizations in accordance with the law provisions on bidding;

e) State agencies committing violations which are not under their assigned tasks of State management; 

g) Professional topographic and cartographic organizations.