Bulgarian law regulates planting distances and permission to remove encroaching branches or roots. Check boundaries and local rules before cutting.
Overhanging branches or intrusive roots do not automatically authorise you to fell another person's tree. The Ownership Act provides for seeking mayoral permission to cut branches extending over your property and roots entering it. Local rules and any special protection must also be checked.
Article 52 specifies minimum planting distances: three metres for tall trees, 1.5 metres for medium trees and one metre for low trees. The tree category should be established through an appropriate technical assessment. If the boundary is disputed, establish it first; a fence may not mark it accurately.
Distinguish overhanging branches, roots, insufficient planting distance and dangerous condition. These may require different technical findings. The law also allows a request to relocate trees planted too close through the same administrative route; that does not automatically authorise complete felling.
Actual damage or excessive interference may also require civil remedies. Photographs, measurements and expert inspection are more useful than a general complaint that the tree is inconvenient. For immediate danger, contact the competent emergency services rather than attempting hazardous unauthorised work.
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