Unlawful entry into the forest - theoretical presentation Cover Image

Bezprawny wjazd do lasu - ujęcie teoretyczne
Unlawful entry into the forest - theoretical presentation

Author(s): Anna Ewa Chodorowska
Subject(s): Criminal Law, Civil Law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: Forest; environmental protection; opening the forests; forest sabotage; law

Summary/Abstract: The subject of deliberations in the following article is the law provisions' analysis, regulating the rule of access to the forests and the exceptions from this principle in force. The right to use the forests, that are in the resources of the State Treasury, is entitled to everyone. In addition, on account to fulfill by the forest its protective and production function, this law must be subjected to certain restrictions. A practical expression of this restriction are both permanent and term bans of admission to the forest, as well as the restriction associated with free movement. In the forests that are a property of the State Treasury, not encompassed with a ban, a several restrictions exists, concerning the stop and the move of engine and horse drawn vehicle or motorbike. It was introduced by the by art. 29 of the Act on Forests. Violation of the following regulation by the unauthorized driver, entering to the forest by a vehicle or leaving it in a place not marked for it, bears all the statutory hallmarks of a petty offences from the art. 161 of the Code of Petty Offences.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 33
  • Page Range: 97-112
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish