This law governs municipalities as local administrations with legal personality and financial and administrative autonomy. It sets the conditions for creating, merging and separating municipalities based on registered population and annual revenues, and regulates how municipal boundaries are defined.
What has changed this text
Amended by Law No. 152/2019 of 15/10/2019, articles 138
Amended by Law No. 61/2017 of 17/10/2017
Suspended by Law No. 9/1984 of 18/12/1984, articles 10,11
Amended by Law No. 316/2001 of 20/04/2001, articles 24
Suspended by Law No. 7/1983 of 21/05/1983, articles 10,11
Amended by Law No. 0/1999 of 25/04/1999, articles 59, 60, 61
Partly repealed by Law/1999 of 25/04/1999, articles 60, 61
Amended by Law/1999 of 25/04/1999, articles 1, 59
Amended by Law No. 212/2000 of 26/05/2000, articles 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, 12, 15, 18, 19, 26, 61, 68
Amended by Law No. 665/1997 of 29/12/1997, articles 9, 11, 12, 15, 18, 19, 26, 68, 71
The full text
This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1977. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.