Changes in the scope of liability for petty off enses
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Zmiany w zakresie odpowiedzialności za wykroczenia przeciwko zabytkom
Changes in the scope of liability for petty off enses against historical monuments

Author(s): Anna Płońska
Subject(s): Criminal Law, Other, Administrative Law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: petty offense law; petty offenses against historical monuments; administrative tort; Act on the Protection and Care of Historical Monuments; amendment;

Summary/Abstract: The main purpose of this study is to analyze changes in the scope of liability forpetty off enses against historical monuments that entered into force on January 1, 2024.In this respect the amendment act of June 22, 2017 was key, introducing a catalog ofadministrative torts as of January 1, 2018 and decriminalizing their equivalent pettyoff enses as of January 1, 2024. The above legislative measure is an example of the no-ticeable trend in recent years of transforming petty off enses into administrative torts.Decriminalization of petty off enses as a result of their conversion into administrativetorts is not the only direction of changes in the scope of liability for petty off enses aga-inst historical monuments. In some cases, the legislator decided to tighten liability andtransform petty off enses into off enses.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 69
  • Page Range: 79-93
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish
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