REGULATION FOR THE STATE NAVIGATION OF GEORGIA ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF PUBLIC COMMISSARS OF THE SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA

The Council of the Public Commissars of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia decrees:

To approve the following Regulation for the State Navigation of Georgia.

1. For the development of the state navigation and improvement of the capacity of the sea-ports of Georgia “The State Navigation” shall be established.  The headquarters of the State Navigation shall be in Tbilisi.

2. The State Navigation shall be subordinate to the Department of Maritime Transport of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia and operate on the basis of this Regulation; at the same time the State Navigation is independent entity and exercises the operation on the commercial basis.

III.  The rights and responsibilities of the State Navigation

12. The State Navigation shall organize and manage the shipping within its competence, between the ports of Georgia Batumi and Gagra, as well as between the harbours of the Black Sea and the Azov Sea.

16. The State Navigation shall have the special (sole) right to the coasting trade in the region of Batumi-Gagra.

Chairman of the Council of Public Commissars of the Georgian SSR S. Kavtaradze

Secretary of the Council Al. Salaridze

20 September 1922

(Messenger of the Public Commissariat of Internal Affairs, N 41, 1922, p. 2-5)