DECREE OF THE 15TH SESSION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE PEOPLE’S DEPUTIES OF THE SOUTH OSSETIAN SOVIET DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC on the Law of the USSR “on Property in the USSR”

DECREE OF THE 15TH SESSION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE PEOPLE’S DEPUTIES OF THE SOUTH OSSETIAN SOVIET DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC on the Law of the USSR “on Property in the USSR”

In accordance to the law of the USSR “on Property in the USSR” (chapter IV, Article 20, paragraph 1) the land and entrails, waters, flora and fauna are integral property of the people of South Ossetia.

The Democratic Republic of South Ossetia within the frame of the legislation of the USSR and its own legal acts shall exercise possession, appropriation and management of land and other natural resources on its territory.

Chairman of the Interim Executive Committee

of the Democratic Republic of South Ossetia T. Kulumbegov

Secretary of the Interim Executive Committee

of the Democratic Republic of South Ossetia I. Kokoev

16 October 1990

(Newspaper “Sovetskaia Ossetia”, # 199, 23 October 1990)