CRIMINAL LAW OF THE SOCIALIST AUTONOMOUS ... - Eulex

10C h a p t e r VEXPLANATION OF TERMS IN THIS LAWArticle 29(1) The territory of the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo means the land surface,water surface within its borders and the airspace above them.(2) An official means:a) a person who performs or executes official duties in an agency of socio-politicalcommunity or in another government agency;b) an elected person in an agency of socio-political community or the person appointedin the executive or another agency of socio-political community;c) an authorized person in the organization of associated labor or in another legal entityentrusted with the execution of public authority by law or municipal assemblydecision executed within the authority of particular duty and passed pursuant to thelaw;d) another person performing particular official duties on the basis of authority stipulatedby the Law or other provisions passed pursuant to the Law.(3) An official also means a military person appointed as such under special regulations,when the criminal acts in question are perpetrated by an official person but which are notstipulated as criminal acts committed by military persons, or as criminal acts against the armedforces.(4) A military person means: a conscript during his service, a military academy student, ajunior officer, a senior officer or a military official; a person who, while being recruited by themilitary in the reserve unit, performs military duty and a civilian who performs a particularmilitary duty.(5) A responsible person means a person in the organization of associated labor or anotherlegal entity who, as pertaining to his duties, or on the basis of special authorization within theorganization, has been entrusted with certain duties, with regards to implementing legalregulations, or the regulations as stipulated by Law, community agreements or a selfmanagementact of the organization, i.e. a legal entity administering public property, or in viewof administering production or other economic processes, and their supervision. A responsibleperson also means an official as per Para 2 of this Article, in respect to the duties performed byan appointed responsible person which are not stipulated in the chapter on criminal actspertaining official function, i.e. as criminal acts of an official as stipulated in other chapters ofthis Law.(6) When an official or a responsible person is identified as a perpetrator of a criminal act, allpersons stated in Para 2 and 3 of this Article may be considered as perpetrators of these acts,unless it is evident from the legal features of a particular act that the perpetrator may be only oneof those persons.(7) Public property means all the means and facilities in community ownership, such asproduction means and other means of associated labor, and community generated revenue, themeans for meeting all common and general needs, as well as the commonly used naturalresources and goods. Public property also includes the property entrusted to the governmentagency, an organization of associated labor, or another legal entity, or it is in their possessionpursuant to another legal basis.