Responsibility for detecting, preventing and handling violations of laws on land management and use

Reply:

Article 241 of the 2024 Land Law stipulates the responsibility for detecting, preventing and handling violations of the law on land management and use as follows:

1. Chairmen of People's Committees at all levels have the following responsibilities:

a) The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and the Chairman of the District People's Committee are responsible for detecting, preventing and promptly handling violations of the law on land management and use in the locality according to their authority;

b) The Chairman of the People's Committee at the commune level is responsible for regularly inspecting, detecting, preventing and promptly handling, within his/her authority, acts of not registering land; encroaching on land, occupying land, destroying land; using land for the wrong purpose; transferring or receiving land use rights illegally and other acts of violating land law by land users.

2. The head of the agency with the function of land management at the provincial and district levels is responsible for inspecting, urging and guiding the performance of official duties by cadres and civil servants; promptly and lawfully resolving complaints, denunciations and recommendations of individuals and organizations within their authority or recommending competent agencies to resolve complaints, denunciations and recommendations of individuals and organizations and promptly handling violations of the law on land management and use in the locality within their authority.

3. Civil servants working in land administration at the commune level; civil servants and public employees of land management agencies at all levels, when performing their official duties, are responsible for detecting and proposing timely handling of violations of land laws.

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