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title: "Damaging or unauthorised felling of green plantings (Art. 151)"
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description: "Art. 151 — damaging or unauthorised felling of green plantings: fine from 500 up to 5,000 GEL with confiscation. Lawyer consultation on Legal.ge."
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# Damaging or unauthorised felling of green plantings (Art. 151)

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## What Article 151 of the Administrative Offences Code covers

Article 151 of the Code of Administrative Offences of Georgia protects green plantings within the administrative boundaries of a municipality. The norm punishes the damaging, unauthorised felling and destruction of green plantings on the territory of the municipality — except for territory held in private ownership. The subject is therefore trees, shrubs and other plantings in public space, and their unauthorised felling or damaging is sanctioned.

The article contains several parts, and the sanctions differ clearly according to the circumstances: who committed the breach, what caused it, and whether it touched a boulevard, a park or a garden. Each of these details changes the amount of the fine.

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### What is the fine for unauthorised felling of a tree?

For the basic offence — 2,000 GEL, with possible confiscation of the instrument and the object. Where the breach is committed by a person already punished under this article — 5,000 GEL.

### A tree was damaged in an accident — is it punishable?

Yes, but on a mitigated basis: a breach resulting from a road traffic accident is fined 500 GEL, and a repeated commission — 1,000 GEL.

### My dog damaged a planting in a park — who is liable?

The owner: for damage to plantings by a domestic animal in a boulevard, park or garden, the owner is fined 500 GEL.

### Does the norm cover private territory?

No. The article does not cover territory held in private ownership — it protects public space on the territory of the municipality.