Municipalities Law

Type

Law

Date of the text

27/11/1947

Official Gazette

published in 1947

Status today

In force, amended as of 27/08/2026

Articles

141

What it provides

This law regulates the establishment of municipalities in towns, villages and summer resorts and the conditions for their creation or dissolution, and sets rules for merging municipalities, separating parts of them, and the resulting transfer of property.

What has changed this text

• Partly repealed by Law/1948 of 14/06/1948, articles 25
• Partly repealed by Law/1948 of 17/06/1948, articles 25

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1947. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.