Status of cultural heritage sites in Montenegro and the Municipality of Bijelo Polje
The status of cultural property in Montenegro is granted to any immovable, movable, and intangible asset for which it has been determined, in accordance with the Law on the Protection of Cultural Property, that it has permanent historical, artistic, scientific, archaeological, architectural, anthropological, technical, or other social significance.
A cultural property may be in state or private ownership.
Cultural properties, as a valued part of cultural heritage of general interest, are protected in accordance with the Law on the Protection of Cultural Property and international regulations, regardless of time, place, and manner of origin, provenance, ownership, as well as their secular or religious character. The protection of cultural property is in the public interest.
Protection, as well as the status of cultural property, also applies to: protected surroundings of immovable cultural properties, objects that form a historical, artistic, visual, or functional whole with them, buildings in which movable cultural properties are permanently stored or exhibited, documentation on cultural property, properties under preliminary protection, mandatory copies of publications, and public archival material.