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CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT

Administrative and Juridical Protection of the Cultural Patrimony

        As it could be noticed, the definition of cultural patrimony is too big, making its protection difficult, so that is the reason why it could not be just in the initiative of the Public Power.
        Communities and society must collaborate.
Administrative protection
        In the administrative sphere protection can be done by:
    1. inventories;
    2. registrations;
    3. vigilance;
    4. list;
    5. expropriating;
    6. another ways of preservation and careful.
   List
        It’s one of the administrative’s protection that is more used.
        The definition of list is: “the proceeding of the Public Power of imposing for the particular or public owner of a good that has proofed general cultural interest, administrative restrictions for its preservation and protection”.
   Preservation
       Administrative way of careful: cleaning, being vigilant and restoration of the protected cultural goods.
      The restoration is a nowadays a prudence developed a lot, implicating historical knowledge and artistic ability of the restaurateur, being one of the most important activities of public administration in relation to the maintenance of constructions of historic-cultural relevance to our society.
    Juridical Protection
       In Brazil there are some Laws that protect the cultural patrimony: The Environmental Crimes Law, the Public Civil Action and the Popular Action.

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