Law on Land Reform (No. VIII-370).

This Law, divided into 5 Chapters, provides for the privatization of rural lands in Lithuania and aims at regulating landownership relations and land reform procedure. Chapter 1 contains general provisions. Chapter 2 ("Acquisition of land as private property) reaffirms the right to private landownership and determines the conditions of sale, size ceilings, priority categories of buyers as well as the restrictions on the resale of private agricultural and forest lands. Chapter 3 ("State land") lists those public lands not subject to privatization, which will compose the State Land Fund (arts. 13 and 14). Chapter 4 ("Implementation of land reform") cites rural agrarian reform agencies as responsible for the implementation of land reform, and the State Institute of Land Exploitation as responsible for land reform plans. Chapter 5 ("Land survey work") concerns the formation of land survey plans of land reform and the determination of land easement.