Javnopravno uređenje zvanične toponimije - od državnog nivoa do nivoa lokalne samouprave / The Public Law Regulation of the Official Toponymy From State’s To Local Level

Abstract

It is the purpose of this paper to highlight the relation between official toponymy in comparative and domestic law. Toponymy is legally regulated.
After the analyzing of the position of official toponymy in the comparative law, selected legal aspects of its regulation in the Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Srpska legal systems are presented: the constitutional regulation of the names of country, constitutive unites and capitals, the constitutional and law regulation of the official use of language and script, the legal regulation of the local-self-government unit names and official place names, as well as the administrative procedure of the place names change.