Lazy is a town in
Zawiercie County,
Silesian Voivodeship,
Poland. Until 1947 the town was the seat of the Rokitno Szlacheckie municipality. In the years 1975-1998 the town administratively belonged to the Katowice province. According to data from December 31, 2004 the town has 7,242 inhabitants. During
World War II, German occupiers changed the name to
Lazy then to
Lasern without a legislative decree. Lazy belongs to the province of
Lesser Poland, and since its foundation until the
Partitions of Poland, it was part of
Krakow Voivodeship.