CHAPTER Ⅳ CONSERVATION OF NATURAL PARKS
Article 23 (Permission of Acts)
(1) Any person who intends to perform an act falling under any of the following subparagraphs, other than a park project, in the park area, shall obtain permission of the park management agency under conditions prescribed by Presidential Decree: Provided, That he/she may perform insignificant acts prescribed by Presidential Decree with a report to the park management agency under conditions prescribed by Presidential Decree, or may perform them without permission or a report:
1. New construction, extending, remodeling, reconstructing or removal and reconstruction of buildings or other structures;
2. Mining minerals and collecting earth, stones, sand or aggregate;
3. Clearing land or changing the form and quality of land (including excavating the ground and changing the form and quality of the seabed);
4. Reclaiming the surface of the water or reclaiming land by drainage;
5. Increasing or decreasing the quantity and level of water in rivers or lakes and marshes;
6. Catching wild animals (including sea animals; hereinafter the same shall apply);
7. Cutting timbers or collecting wild plants (including sea plants; hereinafter the same shall apply);
8. Putting domestic animals out to pasture;
9. Piling up or tying goods;
10. Acts prescribed by Presidential Decree, such as change of the special purpose of buildings which are feared to impair the scenery or to impede the conservation and management of a natural park, and other acts.
(2) The park management agency may grant permission pursuant to paragraph (1) only where the standards referred to in the following subparagraphs are met:
1. To meet the standards for acts permissible in the special purpose district pursuant to Article 18 (2);
2. Not to impede the implementation of any park project;
3. Not to affect the natural state that needs to be preserved;
4. Not to significantly impede the utilization of ordinary people.
(3) The park management agency shall, where it intends to grant permission under paragraph (1), consult with the heads of the relevant administrative agencies under conditions prescribed by Presidential Decree. In such cases, with respect to any act above the scale prescribed by Presidential Decree, it shall additionally undergo deliberation by the relevant park committee.
[This Article Wholly Amended by Act No. 9313, Dec. 31, 2008]