Key:legal
 legal
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Legality of the feature. 
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The legal=* key is used in certain countries. Mostly, it indicates the legality of the element (i.e. Whether local law allows the existence of the element or not). For example, you may want to tag a waste landfill without a governmental register as legal=no. Another possible legal=no instance can be a factory on farmland, which may violate local land use law. You may need source=* to assist your changeset.
By overpass turbo, the legal=* tag is used in four countries most:
You may see some deprecated values other than legal=yes or legal=no in France. See the "In France" section for details.
In France
There were four values used in France:
These values referred to the legal administration status in France. However, the French community discourages those values, seeing them as incorrect or deprecated. Feel free to delete values other than legal=yes or legal=no.