Municipalities Law

Type

Decree-Law

Number

5

Date of the text

31/10/1952

Official Gazette

published in 1952

Status today

In force, amended as of 27/08/2026

Articles

137

What it provides

This law governs municipalities in Lebanon, setting the conditions for creating municipal councils in towns, villages and summer resorts. It allows merging neighbouring municipalities into a single unit, separating a village from one or joining it to another, and states what happens to public property and buildings in

What has changed this text

• Amended by Decree-Law No. 45/1953 of 04/03/1953, articles 17
• Amended by Decree-Law No. 70/1953 of 10/04/1953, articles 129
• Amended by Decree-Law No. 78/1953 of 13/04/1953, articles 86
• Amended by Decree-Law No. 28/1953 of 16/02/1953, articles 29, 32, 52
• Amended by Decree-Law No. 8/1952 of 19/11/1952, articles 13

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1952. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.