REGULATION ON THE ENFORCEMENT OF COAST LAW
No: 20594
Date of Approval: 3/8/1990
PART 1
General Provisions
Legal Basis
Article 1 - This regulation depends on the Article 16 of the Coast Law dated 4/4/1990 No
3621.
Purpose
Article 2 – The purpose of this regulation is to set the procedures for the settlement of
shoreline in seas, natural and artificial lakes, and streams, for the use and protection of the
shores and to set planning and implementation procedures for lands acquired by filling
and saving, and for the coast-lines that are the extensions of the seas and the streams.
Scope
Article 3 – This regulation covers the seas, natural and artificial lakes, and streams and
shorelines, opportunities and provisions of using these facilities for public-interest, the
procedures for planning and construction in the coasts and shores, acquisition and use of
land by filling and reclamation, the procedures which define the establishment, powers
and duties, working principles of the Shoreline Adjustment Commission and the
explanatory notes for enforcement of Law.
Definitions
Article 4 – For the purposes of the Regulation hereby:
The Law means the Coast Law dated 4/4/1990 No 3621
Ministry means the Ministry of Housing and Public Affairs
Coastline means natural line in seas, natural and artificial lakes and streams which is
composed of points where the water hits the land outside the times of flood and which
changes due to the meteorological events.
In natural and artificial lakes, maximum water height determined by the General
Directorate of State Hydraulic Works settles the coast-line.
Shoreline means natural border of the sandy, full of grit, rocky, stony, reedy, moor lands
and similar lands that are composed of beach and coast dunes which are formed by the
movements of water towards the land behind the coastline in the low-mean coasts of seas,
natural and artificial lakes and streams and means the upper limit of the slopes or cliffs in
the narrow-high coasts thereof.
This border shall not be also changed upon the acquisition of land by filling.
At points, where the streams not subject to settlement of shoreline meet seas, natural and
artificial lakes, the coastline shall be settled as the shoreline of sea, natural and artificial
lake.
The coast means the area between the coastline and the shoreline
a) Narrow-High Coast means quite narrow coast without beach or abrasion platform
which end with slopes or cliffs
b) Low- mean coast means the coasts that extend beyond the coastline, that cover the
areas o coast cordon, lagoon lakes, lagoon areas, reedy, moor lands which also include the
beach, moving and stable dunes formed by the coast movements, and sandy, full of grit,
stony, rocky lands.
This part, in seas, natural and artificial lakes, is the area between the coastline settled by
the water when it extends into the land most except times of flood and the natural border
line, that even goes beyond the coastline, of sandy, full of grit, stony, rocky, reedy, moor
lands formed by coast- movements.
In streams, this part means the area between the natural stream beds and the natural border
line on the land side of the sandy, full of grit, stony, rocky, reedy, moor lands formed by
water, which extends beyond these beds.
Shoreline means the area settled horizontally starting from shoreline towards the land, in
seas, natural and artificial lakes, as per the Article 16 of the Regulation hereby.
The structure open to public-use means the structure without immunity of domicile, open
and free to everyone who wants to use it without providing privileged right to use to any
one or any community, conforming with the rule and price tariffs determined or approved
as per legislation.
Stream means the streams that always flow and are stated in the enclosed list.
Regulation on the Control of Water Pollution: It is the regulation based on the
Environment Law No 2872, published on Official Gazette no 19919 dated 1.9.1998.
Technical regulation means the Regulation on Preparing Large Scale Maps published on
Official Gazette no 19711 dated 31.1.1998.
Seafood Breeding and Raising Facilities means the coastal structures in seas and internal
waters, on the surfaces of seas and lakes or in land, with supra-structures aimed at
economical use and production of water product resources, the size of which vary
depending on having incubator or not.
Daily Visit Tourism Facilities: means the structures and facilities that have no camping
and accommodation units but having shower, arbor, chancing cabinet, WC, pub,
bakeshop, restaurant, tea-house, open sport fields, sport facilities, golf fields, open
entertainment fields, Funfair, fair water games park and exhibition and sale units not
exceeding 20m2 to exhibit the works of unique handcrafts.
Partial construction means a) the situation which raises when the number of parcels of
location development plans of 1/1000 scale approved before July 11,1992 for a specific
use purpose within and out of the municipality and contiguous zone borders exceeds 50%
of the number of parcels of structures, which are located on development blocks within
the 100 meter area starting from the shoreline, completed as stated in the plans and
legislation in force at that time, and the structures whose construction is completed at least
in overflowing level by granting authorization or the number of total parcels in the
development blocks of total base area.
The parcels on which more than one structure can be built shall be assessed within this
scope regarding the base area or the number of structures on condition that the
construction is completed at least at the overflowing level.
b) In urban and rural settlements; the situation which rises when more than %50 of the
development blocks of implementation development plan - prepared to cover all inhabited
and development areas, to include all required uses and functions and which is approved
before the date July 11, 1992 – located in the 100 meter area starting from the shoreline
towards the land are constructed as per the Subclause (a). Otherwise, the provisions of the
Subclause (a) shall be valid.
c) In tourism areas and centers; the situation that rises when more than 50% of the
development blocks of implementation development plan – approved before the date of
July 11, 1997 by the Ministry of Tourism – located in the 100 meter area starting from the
shoreline towards the land are constructed as per the Subclause (a). Otherwise, the
provisions of the Subclause (a) shall be valid.
d) In tourism areas and centers, the construction relating to the interest and scope of the
implementation development plans aimed at uses other than tourism and approved before
the date July 11, 1992, as per the definitions in Subclause (a) or Subclause (b).
Port means the coastal structures with sufficient water depth for the vessels to board and
leave passengers, load and unload goods, moor and wait, that have technical and social
infrastructure facilities protected from the wind and sea effects naturally or artificially.
Shipyard: These are the coastal structures that are provided with standing water by the
wave-breakers for the construction, modification, maintenance and repair of cargo and
passenger ships (for commercial or touristic purposes) and boats (wood, polyester,
fiberglass, steel), that have floating dock, technical and social infrastructure with units of
management, maintenance and storage.
Yacht Port: These are the coastal structures with tourism licenses who are granted
“operating license” by the Prime Ministry Undersecretariat for Maritime Affairs, which
provide a secure mooring for yachts, direct accession to each yacht on foot, with sufficient
water-depth and which offer technical and social infrastructure, management, support,
maintenance and repair services, which are protected from the effects of wind and sea.
Fisher Shelter means the coastal structures protected by the wave-breakers to serve fishing
boats, with sufficient dock and back-field for the local fishers, mooring wharfs, water and
electric supplies, fishnet drying area, slip field, temporary storage and sale units for sea
products.
Yacht dock means the coastal structures that offer yachts services of spend the winter,
docking, weighing the anchor, protection on land, maintenance and repair (except
shipyards and large maintenance facilities), technical infrastructure and management.
Slip field means the coastal structures that have sufficient equipment for the fishing boats,
small tonnage boats or yachts to be parked for maintenance and repair and enough shore
or floor of pressured soil or solid hot asphalt or concrete slope for the maintenance and
repair works.
Management units mean the management building which must be constructed on the coast
and is necessary for the structures requiring supra-structure and the dining hall, WC,
shower units of the personnel.
Support units mean the telecommunication center, meteorology service, health unit, units
offering rent and customs services, helicopter runway, units of food and drink and sale.
Maintenance-repair units: these are hangar, factories, docking areas and drained bottom
cleaning places.
Technical and social infrastructure means wave-breakers, control tower, transformer,
water tank slip wharf, biological and chemical treatment plant, waste water and bilge
disposal station, electricity and water supply, PTT (General Directorate of Post, Telegram
and Telephone), Fax, TV equipment, container for oil and waste collection, fire network,
lift system, sanitary units, car-park, pavement, square, open-space area, playground and
park which serve to structures and facilities to be constructed on the coast and which
enable the coast to be used for public-purposes.
General Procedures
Article 5 – coasts and the lands acquired through filling and reclamation are under the
provision and protection of the State. Coasts are open to use of every one on free and
equitable basis.
In the utilization of the coasts and shores, public interest is considered first.
Coast is open to use of everyone on a free and equitable base, no building can be
constructed here; walls, hedges, bars, yarns, trenches, piles or similar blocks can not be
used here.
No excavation which can modify coast and destroy its natural structure shall be allowed,
soil, grit and etc. can no be taken or carried away. On the approval and the written
allowance of the governorship, excavations, taking and carrying away soil, grit and etc
which do not modify the natural structure of the coast can be performed as per the
allowance provisions.
Polluting wastes and remnants such as rubble, soil, slack, garbage can not be poured into
to the coasts. Besides, the provisions of the Regulation on the Control of Water Pollution
shall also be valid.
The provisions of the Water Products Law No 1380, Environment Law No 2871 and of
the regulation issued pursuant to the same Law are reserved.
Approved shoreline is to be settled for the planning and implementation on the coast and
the shore.
PART 2
Establishment, Working Procedures and the Principles of the Commission
Settlement and Approval of the Shoreline
Establishment of the Shoreline Adjustment Commission
Article 6 – Shoreline Adjustment Commission is composed by the governorships of at
least 5 persons. At least one person from the occupation groups listed below must
participate in the commission:
a) Geology engineer and/or geologist, in case of their absence a geomorphologist
b) Cartography and cadastre engineer
c) Agricultural engineer
d) Architect and/or urban planner
e) Civil engineer
Among these members, the one selected by the governor shall be the commission
chairman
Settlement and Approval of the Shoreline
Article 7 – It is essential shoreline in the areas without approved shoreline be settled by
the governorships within a plan in the shortest period. Annual settlement programs shall
be prepared by the governorships.
Every measurement shall be taken for the implementation and finalization of the
settlement operations pursuant to the Law, Regulation and these programs. However,
upon the settlement demand of the authorities, settlement of shoreline shall be primarily
performed as per the provisions of the Regulation hereby without considering its place in
the annual plan.
Settlements of shorelines shall be transferred on to the existing maps on the total island
covering the area of at least 200 m from the possible shoreline towards the land.
shoreline settlements that shall be performed by governorships pursuant to annual
programs shall be performed on the existing approved maps with a scale of 1/1000, in
case of its absence on the existing approved maps with a scale of 1/5000 and in case of its
absence than on the existing approved topographical maps with a scale of 1/5000.,
upon the demand of settlement of shoreline by the authorities, it is obligatory to transfer
the shoreline to the existing approved maps with a scale of 1/1000.
On the existence of shoreline approved by transferring to a photographic, cadastral or
graphical map, the existing map with a scale of 1/1000 shall be charted and approved by
the authorities, and by transferring to the existing map with a scale of 1/1000, shoreline
shall be approved as per the Article 9 of the Regulation hereby.
In areas without approved shoreline, each having an existing map with a scale of 1/1000,
shoreline shall be transferred after the authorities have the map with a scale of 1/1000
covering at least 200 m area from possible shoreline towards the land completed and
approved.
In areas without approved shoreline and existing approved map with a scale of 1/1000,
shoreline shall be transferred after the authorities have the existing map with a scale of
1/1000 covering at least 200 m from the possible shoreline towards the land charted and
approved.
Maps of the areas that had no shoreline in earlier existing approved map parts with a scale
of 1/1000 shall be charted and approved. Shoreline shall be transferred to the whole map
part after completion.
If the shorelines approved after drown on to the cadastral map parts with a scale of 1/1000
or a larger scale are demanded to be transferred to the existing map with a scale of 1/1000,
after the authorities have the existing map with a scale of 1/1000 covering at least 200 m
from the possible shoreline towards the land charted and approved, shoreline shall be
transferred to this map and sent to the Ministry for archiving. Upon the detection of an
error in the transfer operation, it shall be sent back to the Ministry for correction.
Settlement demands shall be finalized within three-month period after submission to the
governorship by providing the conditions related to error.
If the shoreline is settled upon demand, ownership boundaries of the real property or
properties subject to demand shall be defined on the special map parts submitted to the
Ministry.
Settlement of the Shoreline on Field and Its Transfer to the Maps
Article 8 – As per the provisions of the Law and the Article 4 of the Regulation hereby,
shoreline shall be settled in field. It shall be transferred to the existing approved maps
defined in the Article 7 of the Regulation hereby.
Shoreline composed of points settled in the field as per the provisions of technical
regulation shall be transferred to the map pursuant to its procedure. Existing maps to
which shorelines settled in this way are transferred and the documents they are based on
shall be signed by the commission.
A minute, which defines pursuant to which principles and data the settled and transferred
shoreline is transferred, shall be issued and signed by the commission.
Approval of Shoreline
Article 9 – Original section, a series of ozalid section duplicated from this one, minute
issued in field and the documents relating measurement process shall be summated to the
governorship. On finding them appropriate, the governorship shall submit these
documents and other relate documents to the Ministry.
Shorelines considered appropriate shall enter into force after signed by the Ministry.
Approved original section shall be submitted to the Ministry. Shoreline sections not
considered to be appropriate by the Ministry shall be returned to the governorship for
required adjustments or re-settlement.
Duplication and Distribution of the Section
Article 10 – Approved original shoreline sections submitted by the Ministry shall be
duplicated and distributed by the governorship to Title Deed Office, local finance
Institution and, if the settlement is within the municipality boundaries, to the municipality
concerned. Approved original coastal sections shall be kept by the governorship.
After the settlement is performed, land registry annulments related to the lands subject to
private ownerships on the coast shall be handled by the revenue office concerned.
Publicity of the Shorelines
Article 11 – shoreline sections shall be publicized. Municipalities or governorships shall
provide the whole or a part of the shoreline sections to anyone demanding with the price
set.
PART 3
Planning and Construction on Coasts and Filled In and Reclaimed Lands
Planning on Coast
Article 12 – Planning and the construction on coast shall not start before the preparation
and the approval of development plan with a scale of 1/1000. By also consulting to
institutions concerned when necessary, only to construct structures and facilities stated in
the Article 6 of the Law and Article 13 of the regulation hereby on coast, a development
plan can be prepared.
Implementation development plan of structures and facilities, which are in the scope of
Subclause (a) of the Article 13 of the Regulation hereby and which are the premises and
extensions of touristic uses in the tourism areas and centers determined as per Tourism
Incentives Law No 2634 and the daily visit tourism areas of the shorelines in the same
areas or accommodation facilities outside the shoreline, shall enter into force by the
approval of the Ministry of Tourism as per the Article 7 of the same Law.
In the tourism zones, areas and centers, implementation development plans including nontouristic use decisions shall enter into force by the approval of the Ministry as per the
Article 7 of Tourism Incentives Law No 2634 and Article 9 of the Development Plan No
3194.
Implementation development plant not covered by the first and second paragraphs shall
enter into force by approval of the Ministry, governorship or municipality as per
Development Law No 3194.
Structures on the Coast
Article 13 – Pursuant to approved development plans and on condition that all the
measures against pollution are taken, below structures and facilities can be constructed on
the coast.
a) Infrastructures and facilities to use the coast for public- interest and to protect the coast:
dock, port, docking area, wharf, wave-breaker, bridge, supporting wall, lantern, slip area,
boat house, saline, stake-net, salvage and pumping stations.
b) Structures and facilities that can not be constructed elsewhere due to the characteristics
of the activity: shipyard, workshop for separating ship apart, water products production
and raring facilities, yacht port, fisher shelter and yacht docks.
c) Without preparing a new development plan, mobile showers, arbors, chancing cubicles,
lunch counter smaller than 6 m2, not with at least 150 meters between two, mobile W.C.
not requiring a cesspool and with no polluting effect and wood wharfs can be constructed.
Treatment plants of private owners, which are in the second part of the shoreline or behind
it, cannot be constructed on the coast. In these areas only treatment plants for publicinterest can be constructed.
Acquisition of Lands by Filling and Reclamation
Article 14 – On condition that there are no drink or use water supply in seas, only when
public-interest requires and there are no better alternatives and the coasts are not sufficient
in natural and artificial lakes and streams and with the development plan decision, lands
can be acquired by filling and reclamation for the structures and facilities stated in the
Article 13 of the Regulation hereby, playgrounds, open sport fields within the scope of
construction of the infrastructures as per the Article 7 of the Law that are aimed at land,
sea and air transportation and the open-space area, fair, picnic, entertainment fields
including portable structures which are constructed on the 3% of the area saved for the
same purpose with portable elements whose height do not exceed 5.50 m such as
restaurants, pub, tea-house, exhibition units and administrative buildings.
I n the preparation, examining the filling and reclamation process, it shall be essential to
protect the ecological balance, and not to effect the seas, natural and artificial lakes and
their surrounding and the ecosystems in these areas in a negative way.
To fill and reclaim land;
a) demand of filling and reclaiming the land shall be submitted to the governorship by the
authority concerned that will perform the operation
b) governorship submits the reasonable opinion on whether the filling and reclamation are
problematic with the proposal
c) ministry examines the proposal by consulting to institutions concerned according to the
subject and the characteristics of the area.
d) If the ministry consider the proposal as appropriate, application development plan
covering the filling and reclamation area and the implementation in this area shall be
prepared by the proposal holder himself or he shall have somebody prepared it.
e) If the land that shall be acquired by filling and reclamation belongs to tourism zones,
areas and centers defined as per Tourism Incentives Law No 2634 and to the uses,
structures and facilities defined in the Article 12 of the Regulation hereby, implementation
development plans shall be approved by the Ministry of Tourism as per the Article 7 of
the same Law.
Implementation development plans of non-touristic uses in the tourism zones, areas and
centers and of other areas where lands are acquired by filling and reclamation shall be
prepared or have by others prepared as per Development Law No 3194. It enters into force
upon the approval of the Ministry.
f) filling and reclamation shall be performed as per approved development plans.
Building License for the Land Acquired by Filling and Reclamation
Article 15 – Required allowance must be granted from The ministries of Finance and
Customs to grant construction license for the structures and facilities that shall be
constructed on the filled up and reclaimed lands on the coast that are listed in the
Subclause (a) of the Article of the Regulation hereby.
To grant the allowance from the Ministry of Finance, investing person or institution must
submit;
-approved application development plan,
-written statement of the authority concerned that approves plan and project stating filling
-or reclamation are performed as per the plan and project,
-investment document for the structures in tourism areas and centers to be granted from
the Ministry of Tourism must be submitted to the Ministry.
PART 4
Shore-Line, Planning and Construction in the Shoreline
Settlement of Shoreline
Article 16 – Shoreline shall be settled in seas, natural and artificial lakes as per the
following provisions.
a) In the areas for which implementation development plan shall be prepared for the first
time, in village settlements and in uninhabited areas, shoreline shall be settled as at least
100 m from the shoreline towards the land. When there are areas whose development
plans are approved earlier within this land, shoreline of the location development plan
shall be settled as at least 100 m in development blocks that are partially or completely
non-constructed.
b) If the urban and rural settlements with implementation development plans approved
before the date July 11, 1992, areas of touristic purposes in tourism centers and areas, and
urban and rural settlements in the tourism areas and centers are partially or completely
constructed, shoreline in the approved development plan shall be valid. Otherwise. Shoreline shall be settled as per the Subclause (c).
c) When in the blocks with location development plan approved before the date July 11,
1992 and the blocks in tourism centers and areas with location development plant for nontouristic purposes; if the development blocks form the start of the shoreline settled by the
plan which are listed first are partially or wholly constructed, shoreline in the approved
plan shall be deemed valid without considering whether the development blocks behind
are partially or completely constructed. When the development blocks that are first in the
list are not partially or completely constructed, by evaluating the situation of the ones
behind, shoreline shall be settled by taking the front-line of the partially or completely
constructed ones as basis.
Required revisions in the implementation development plan covering this area shall be
made in a 6-month period as per the provisions of the Law and the Regulation hereby.
Construction license shall not be granted before the completion of this process.
The vested rights of the structures which are constructed before the date April 17, 1990 as
per the plan and legislation in force at that time or which are constructed at least to the
overflowing level by granting license shall be reserved. This provision shall be valid for
the structures constructed on the parcels with a license to construct more than one
structures on the parcel.
D) Shore-line is settled as the area of at least 50 m width starting from the shoreline in
settlements and established areas determined as per the development regulation to be
implemented in the areas within and out of the municipality and contiguous zone
boundaries. When these areas have environment order and/or regulatory development
plans, than shore-line shall be settled as per the same procedures.
Only Daily Visit Tourism Facilities defined only in the approved development plan which
are open to public use, structures and facilities defined in the Article 13 and 14 of the
Regulation hereby, and police station and other such security structures that will be
constructed to cover public housing, accommodation and other such facilities to protect
the coast and the sea shall stand on the second part of the shoreline.
In the shorelines with approved implementation development plan, it is prohibited to
construct walls, hedges, trenchers, piles and other such barriers. Municipalities and
governorships shall have the barriers constructed earlier lifted.
Procedures of construction license and allowance for structure use shall be fallowed as per
the provisions of the Development Law No 3194. on order to start construction on the
shoreline, it must be filled in the statement part of the register of title deeds that structures
to be constructed are spared for the public-interest.
PART 5
Control, Structures Violating Development Legislation and the Punishment
Control
Article 19 – Implementations on the coasts, filled up and reclaimed lands and the
shorelines and their control shall be performed by the municipalities within the
municipality and contiguous zone boundaries and by the governorships in the lands out of
these areas.
Inspection and control authorities of the Ministries concerned shall be reserved. Ministry
shall be informed about the developments.
Areas covered by the Law shall be always kept under control by the municipalities and the
governorships to prevent the construction of structures violating the development
legislation. To this end, all required measures shall be taken by the governorships and the
municipalities.
Structures Violating Development Legislation
Article 20 – When the structures on the coasts, lands filled up and reclaimed and
shorelines are constructed without license or against the license and its annexes by
violating the provisions of the Law, plan and the regulation hereby, as per the provisions
of the Article 32 of the Development Law No 3194, required legal procedures shall be
fallowed within the legal periods defined in the law thereby.
Punishment
Article 21 – as defined clearly in the article 15 of the Law,
a) fines stated by the Law shall be issued by the mayors within the boundaries of
municipalities and contiguous zones and by the governors out of the contiguous zones.
b) On the coast and filled up and reclaimed lands and on shorelines,
Owners and contractors of the structures covered by the Article 20 of the Regulation
hereby are separately sentenced to pay fine. Fine shall be realized and collected as two
times higher than the fine set for the same condition as per the Article 42 of the
Development Law No 3194.
If the structures that are treated within the scope of Article 20 of the Regulation hereby
and not subject to construction license are pulled down by their owners in the specified
time, fine realized to be paid by the owner shall not be collected.
If the destruction works about the structures violating the license and its annexes and
which must comply with the license and its annexes by pulling violating parts down, are
performed by the owners in the specified time, fine realized to be paid by the owner shall
not be collected. Punishments on the technical liabilities can be enforced as per the Article
42 of the Development Law.
c) on the coasts and shorelines with implementation development plan;
1) Persons who construct walls, hedges, bars, yarns, trenches, piles or similar block,
persons collecting soil, grit and etc shall be sentenced to pay a fine of 5 million TL,
However, for the structures, outside the boundaries of the municipalities and contiguous
zones within which structures are constructed as per the provisions of the regulation in
force at that time, that do not have surrounding planning, versification or implementation
development plan , which will be constructed in the approved village settlement by the
villagers registered to village records before 10/11/1985 and who permanently live there,
shoreline can be lowered at least to 10 m horizontally by considering the existing
establishment after 1/371995.
(e) In the uninhabited areas within and out of the municipality and contiguous zone
borders, shoreline shall be settled as the area with a 50 m width horizontally starting from
the shoreline. Shoreline shall be settled as per the same procedure on the existence of
environment order and/or versification development plan.
Planning in the Shoreline
Article 17 – Before the approval and implementation of the implementation development
plan, implementation can not start in the shoreline. Plans prepared for the shorelines shall
cover the structures and facilities defined in the Article 13 and 14 of the Regulation
hereby on condition that they are open to public-use and daily visit tourism structures and
facilities without accommodation.
Implementation development plants of the touristic uses in the tourism areas and centers
determined as per the Tourism Incentives Law No 2634 enter into force by the approval of
the Ministry of Tourism as per the Article 7 of the Law thereby.
Implementation development plans covering non-touristic uses in the touristic zones, areas
and centers shall enter into force by the approval of the Ministry, governorship or
municipality as per the Article 7 of Tourism Incentives Law No 2634 and the
Development law No 3194.
Structures and facilities listed in the Article 13 of the Regulation hereby that requires
supra-structures can be constructed on the shoreline with the implementation development
plan after the due opinions of the Ministry of Housing and Public Affairs, other ministries
concerned and the institutions due to both geographical condition and the topographic
structure of the land and unsuitable settlement structure behind the shoreline.
As per the Subclause (b ) of the Regulation hereby, in the areas where shoreline is settled,
total precedent for the supra-structure facilities required by yacht ports shall not exceed
2%0 of territorial land, the flat number shall not exceed (1), H shall not exceed 4.50 m,
when there is mezzanine than shall not exceed 5.50m. Precedent for the sale units shall not
exceed 5% of the territorial land.
As per the Subclause (a) and (c) of the Regulation hereby, in the areas where shoreline is
or will be settled, total precedent for the supra-structure facilities shall not exceed 5% of
territorial land, flat number shall not exceed (1), H shall not exceed 4.50 m when there is
mezzanine than 5.50. precedent for the sale unit shall not exceed 1% of the territorial land.
Construction on the Shoreline
Article 18 – No structure or facility can be constructed on the shorelines settled as per the
article 16 of the Regulation hereby unless an implementation development plan is
prepared.
Sub-treatment plants of the private structures and facilities that are in the second part of
the shoreline or the in the areas which are behind the shoreline can not be constructed on
the first part of the shore. Such treatment plants can be constructed on the ownership of
their own facility or on the areas that do not have to be left to public.
Due to the reasons listed in the Article 17 of the Regulation hereby, structures and
facilities listed in the Article 13, requiring supra-structures can be constructed on the
shores.
2) persons throwing away things with polluting and environment damaging features such
as soil, slack and garbage shall be sentenced to pay a fine of 10 Million TL,
3) persons who make large scale excavations that change the coast structure and who take
or collect soil and grit shall be sentenced to pay a fine of 50 million TL.
Provisions of Law No 3506 dated 6/12/1989 and Law No 3591 dated 6/12/1989 shall be
valid for the fines.
d) Within 7 days after the notification date of the fine, appeals against fines stated in the
paragraphs (b) and (c) can be made by administration courts.
e) Legal action against anyone who does not perform or postpones procedures envisaged
in the Law and the Regulation hereby or local and other public authorities who misapply
the Law shall be taken.
f) If the fines are not paid, provisions of the Law on the Collection Procedures of Public
Claims No 6138 shall be applied.
Article 22 – Governorships provide the implementation of the Regulation hereby via
Public Works and Settlement Directorates.
Entry into Force
Article 23 – This regulation shall enter into force on its publication date.
Enforcement
Article 24 - The provisions of this regulation shall be enforced by the Minister of Housing
and Public Works.