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National Cultural Heritage Laws

Source: UNESCO Database of National Cultural Heritage Laws UNESCO/CLT/Natlaws

Document Years Themes Categories Language
Federal Law on national properties 2001
  • Authorization, Permits, License
  • Compensation
  • Dealer trade
  • Inventory, Registry
  • Maintenance
  • Sanctions
  • Statutes of limitation
  • Transfer of ownership
  • Cultural Immovable Heritage
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
  • Natural Heritage
  • Underwater Cultural Heritage
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Federal Law on monuments and archaeological, artistic, and historical zones 1986
  • Authorization, Permits, License
  • Compensation
  • Dealer trade
  • Exportation
  • Illicit traffic
  • Inventory, Registry
  • Maintenance
  • Promotion and Development
  • Protected Area or Good
  • Restitution
  • Return
  • Sanctions
  • Statutory Bodies Creation
  • Theft
  • Transfer of ownership
  • Cultural Immovable Heritage
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
  • Natural Heritage
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Procedure INAH-00-003: Permit for allowing the exportation of reproductions of archaeological and historical monuments and to obtain registration in the INAH registry of reproducers and exporters 2003
  • Authorization, Permits, License
  • Exportation
  • Inventory, Registry
  • Protected Area or Good
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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Steps for obtaining a licence for the temporary or final export of moveable properties and/or monuments 2005
  • Authorization, Permits, License
  • Exportation
  • Return
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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Steps to request the transport and/or exhibition of archaeological monuments 2005
  • Authorization, Permits, License
  • Exportation
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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Organic law of the National Institute of Anthropology and History 1939
  • Authorization, Permits, License
  • Exploration license
  • Inventory, Registry
  • Maintenance
  • Promotion and Development
  • Restitution
  • Return
  • Statutory Bodies Creation
  • Cultural Immovable Heritage
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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Safety standards of the Museums 1986
  • Maintenance
  • Statutory Bodies Creation
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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Decree whereby all kinds of artistic works made by painter José María Velasco are declared to be Historical Monuments 1943
  • Protected Area or Good
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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Decree for declaring Historical Monuments all works of Gerardo Murillo Coronado (Doctor Atl) 1964
  • Maintenance
  • Protected Area or Good
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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Decree whereby the works of art produced by the artist David Alfaro Siquieros are declared artistic monuments 1980
  • Maintenance
  • Protected Area or Good
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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Decree whereby all the works of art produced by the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo Calderon are declared to be artistic monuments, including easel, graphic works, engravings and technical documents, whether property of the nation or of private individuals 1984
  • Maintenance
  • Protected Area or Good
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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Decree by which all the artistic work of Saturnino Herran is declared to be an artistic monument (second publication) 1988
  • Maintenance
  • Protected Area or Good
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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Decree declaring all kinds of works of art by the late painters José Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera to be historical monuments 1959
  • Maintenance
  • Protected Area or Good
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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Agreement N. 317 whereby all the works of art produced by the artist Maria Izquierdo are declared artistic monuments 2002
  • Maintenance
  • Protected Area or Good
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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Agreement N.307 whereby the works of art produced by the artist Remedios Varo Uranga are declared artistic monuments 2001
  • Maintenance
  • Protected Area or Good
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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Convenio de proteccion y restitucion de monumentos arquelogicos, artisticos e historicos entre el gobierno de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos y el Gobierno de Belice 1996
  • Maintenance
  • Protected Area or Good
  • Restitution
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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Convenio de proteccion y restitucion de monumentos arquelogicos , artisticos e historicos entre el gobierno de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos y el gobierno de la Republica de El Salvador 1992
  • Maintenance
  • Restitution
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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Convenio de proteccion y restitucion de monumentos arquelogicos , artisticos e historicos entre el gobierno de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos y el gobierno de la Republica de Guatemala 1977
  • Restitution
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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General Law on National Assets (translation) 2004
  • Promotion and Development
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
English
Presidential agreement establishing the minimal requirements for safeguarding the cultural assets residing in museums 1986
  • Protected Area or Good
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
English
Law amending, adding and derogating several provisions regarding Fiscal Matters 1981
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
English
Decree under which amendments and additions are made to the Federal Law on archeological, artistic and historic monuments and zones 1984
  • Maintenance
  • Promotion and Development
  • Protected Area or Good
  • Cultural Immovable Heritage
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
English
Decree under which amendments and additions are made to the Federal Law on archeological, artistic and historic monuments and zones 1986
  • Maintenance
  • Promotion and Development
  • Protected Area or Good
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
English
Decree amending the Organic Law of the National Institute for Anthropology and History 1986
  • Maintenance
  • Promotion and Development
  • Statutory Bodies Creation
  • Cultural Immovable Heritage
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
English
Decree by which several legal provisions are amended 1998
  • Cultural Immovable Heritage
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
English
Convenio tecnico-operativo para la restitucion y el combate del trafico ilicito de monumentos arqueologicos, artisticos e historicos entre la secretaria de educacion publica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos y el ministerio de cultura y deportes de la republica de Guatemala 1995
  • Illicit traffic
  • Restitution
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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Convenio de proteccion y restitucion de monumentos arqueologicos, artisticos e historicos, entre la Republica de Guatemala y los Estados Unidos Mexicanos 1975
  • Protected Area or Good
  • Restitution
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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Compilacion de textos legislativos sobre proteccion de la propriedad cultural mueble
  • Authorization, Permits, License
  • Exportation
  • Illicit traffic
  • Importation
  • Protected Area or Good
  • Sanctions
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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Decreto 1976 sobre los derechos por los requestos, autorizaciones relacionados con monumentos y zonas arqueologicas 1975
  • Authorization, Permits, License
  • Inventory, Registry
  • Cultural Immovable Heritage
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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Decreto de promulgacion del convenio para la proteccion del patrimonio Mundial, Cultural y Natural 1972
  • World heritage
  • Cultural Immovable Heritage
  • Natural Heritage
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Ley general de bienes nacionales 1982
  • Maintenance
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Reglamento de la ley federal sobre Monumentos y zonas aqueologicas, artisticas y historicas 1975
  • Promotion and Development
  • Cultural Immovable Heritage
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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Ley que crea el instituto nacional de bellas artes y literatura 1946
  • Statutory Bodies Creation
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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Normas minimas de seguridad para la proteccion del patrimonio cultural que albergan los museos 1986
  • Protected Area or Good
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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A Resolution condemning acts of vandalism at archaeological sites and Illicit export of prehistoric treasures from the Republic of Mexico 1959
  • Exportation
  • Illicit traffic
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
English
Ley federal sobre monumentos y zonas arqueologicas, artisticas e historicas
Ley federal sobre monumentos y zonas arqueologicas, artisticas e historicas (unofficial translation)
1972
  • Inventory, Registry
  • Protected Area or Good
  • Sanctions
  • Cultural Immovable Heritage
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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Acuerdo-circular para llevar el cabo el transporte de monumentos arqueologicos, historicos y demas objetos de museos dentro del instituto o fuera del mismo 2000
  • Exportation
  • Illicit traffic
  • Cultural Immovable Heritage
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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Ley General de Bienes Nacionales (ultima reforma 31 agosto 2007) 2007
  • Promotion and Development
  • Protected Area or Good
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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Ley de Expropriacion (ultima reforma 4 dicembre 1997) 1997
  • Good faith acquisition
  • Illicit traffic
  • Statutes of limitation
  • Transfer of ownership
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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Ley Federal de Turismo (ultima reforma 5 junio 2000) 2000
  • Promotion and Development
  • Cultural Immovable Heritage
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Ley federal sobre monumentos y zonas arqueologicos, artisticos y historicos de 1972 (con la ultima reforma de 28-01- 2015) 2015
  • Exportation
  • Illicit traffic
  • Importation
  • Promotion and Development
  • Loan
  • Cultural Immovable Heritage
  • Cultural Movable Heritage - Cultural Property
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