SERBIA | ANDREJ MIĆOVIĆ 611 In the time interval between the two World Wars, a Regulation on the promotion of tourism and the Regulation on proclamation of tourist places in 1936 were adopted with a list of 18 cities of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, classified according to the autonomous provinces in touristic, climatic and spa places15. After the World War II (WWII), tourist and hospitality industry was at first regulated by federal regulations. In 1965, the Basic Law on the Hospitality Industry was adopted, according to which all other relevant rules and regulations were based16. By the adoption of the constitutional amendments from 1971, regulation of that industry was entrusted to the republics and provinces. In the Federal Republic of Serbia, in 1973, was adopted the Law on the Hospitality Industry17 and, a year later, the Law on the Hospitality Industry and Hospitality Services concerned and the surrounding properties by free agreement or by expropriation at the expense of the sanitary budget. Government had an exclusive right to exploit mineral and hot water in the form of a spa or in any other form, but that right, under the conditions prescribed by the law, could be given to other bodies or persons at a certain time. The law allowed to raise the living quarters of owners in the broader spa region without the approval of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. For the habitation of spa visitors, only facilities built according to the plans approved by the Minister of Internal Affairs could be used, which are inspected at the beginning of the spa season by the sanitary police commission and established to be in order for apartments. Renting out of buildings in the narrower or broader spa region that were not hygienic or were intended only for living of owners, was sanctioned by a fine from 50 to 250 dinars and by closing the building. The Law also contained provisions concerning the protection of the environment. Thus, in the narrow spa region deforestation was prohibited, except with the approval of the spa administration in order to beautify the spa itself. In the broader spa region, and on the area of two kilometers from the narrower region, forest could be cut only with the approval of the Minister of Internal Affairs, after the hearing of the Minister of National Economy. Within the whole area was forbidden to let the cattle, especially goats to graze and damage the forest. Anyone who acted otherwise would be punished by the police authorities of the respective county, in which the spa is located with 10 to 100 dinars in favor of the Medical Fund. Each spa was in legal terms an integral part of the respective municipality and had special arrangements. Part of the arrangement also was a permanent spa administration whose main duty was: ensuring that all spa activities were done on time; making proposals for the improvement of the spa to the Minister of Internal Affairs; taking care of order in the spa during the spa season; doing all activities in accordance with the provisions of the Act and the Regulations. Finally, the Act precisely specified what belonged to the spa revenue: revenue from state assets (taverns, restaurants, residence buildings, etc.); revenues from treatment tolls; revenues under special laws and regulations as a butchery and store rent and other revenues under that or any other law; revenues from charges for the use of facilities that belonged to the state (baths, massages, etc.); revenues from fines and other unplanned revenues (Zakon o banjama, mineralnim i toplim izvorima [The Law on Spas, Mineral and Hot Water Springs], http://www.vrnjackabanja.co.rs/zakon-o-banjama-mineralnim-i-toplim-vodama-iz-1914-g/). 15 Lazić, S. (2015): Turizam u Beogradu između dva svetska rata [Tourism in Belgrade between the two world wars], Novi Sad, TIMS Acta, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 39. 16 Osnovni zakon o ugostiteljskoj delatnosti [Basic Law on the Hospitality Industry], Sl. list SFRJ [Official Journal of the SFRY], no. 8/1965, 10/1965, 15/68 and 30/68. 17 Zakon o ugostiteljskoj delatnosti [Law on Hospitality Industry], Sl. glasnik SRS [Official Gazette of SRS], no. 49/71, 24/73 and 51/77, 24/85 and 32/90.
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