Act No. 18 / 1958 Coll.
Fire Protection Act
Valid
Effective from 30.04.1958
18
Law
of 17 April 1958
about fire protection.
The National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Republic decided on the following Act:
Basic provisions
(1) Socialistic state building, the lives and health of workers and all assets must be protected against damage caused by fires and other natural disasters or accidents.
(2) The basis of effective fire protection is the vigilance and caution of citizens and their widest participation in fire protection, the development of which is primarily taken care of by national committees and their executive bodies with the help of voluntary organisations, especially the Czechoslovak Fire Protection Association.
(3) Everyone is obliged to act in such a way as not to give cause for fire, and to contribute to the proper performance of fire protection tasks by their forces, in particular to provide the necessary personal and material assistance in preventing and combating fires and other natural disasters or accidents.
Fire protection management
Tasks of the Ministry of Interior
(1) Central fire protection management and supervision are the responsibility of the Ministry of the Interior.
(2) The Ministry of the Interior is entitled to take the necessary measures within the limits of the applicable regulations to ensure fire protection, in particular:
(a) lay down principles for the management and organisation of fire protection and issue general fire protection legislation;
(b) lay down the fire protection requirements to be observed in project preparation and construction;
(c) determine the principles for the procurement, distribution and testing of fire protection material and submit proposals for their standardisation and characterisation;
(d) lay down the principles governing the training and training of professional fire protection personnel and members of voluntary fire protection units;
(e) conduct research in the field of fire protection.
(3) In performing these tasks, the Ministry of the Interior is working with the Czechoslovak Fire Protection Union.
(4) As its Fire Protection Advisory Body, the Ministry of the Interior may establish a Technical Fire Protection Board, composed of representatives of central and other authorities and bodies and the Czechoslovak Fire Protection Association.
Tasks of the national committees and their executive bodies
(1) National Committees and their executive bodies manage, organise and control fire protection in their respective districts. In order to ensure this, they shall be entitled to issue general legislation and to take all necessary measures, in particular as regards fire prevention; as regards rail, water, air and forestry, they shall take care of the special arrangements for their organisation and the needs of their operation (Section 9 (2)).
(2) When carrying out fire protection tasks, the national committees and their executive bodies cooperate with the Czechoslovak Fire Protection Union.
(3) National committees and their executive bodies are obliged to provide mutual assistance in the fire protection.
(4) The local national committees and their executive bodies shall in particular ensure that preventive fire protection is properly implemented in the municipality and that they ensure that the detected fire defects are remedied. The executive bodies of the local national committees may, as appropriate, invite citizens to cooperate in the fire protection sector.
Public fire protection costs
(1) Local national committees and their executive bodies ensure all means of action for voluntary public fire protection units and for public fire protection in the municipality and cover the costs associated with the procurement, establishment and maintenance of such resources; the means of the voluntary fire protection units provide and distribute fire protection for the cooperation of the Czechoslovak Union.
(2) The municipal (district) national committees will cover the personnel costs of the public fire services as well as the costs associated with the procurement, establishment and maintenance of the means of fire protection in kind for those services.
(3) The Ministry of the Interior may, in agreement with the Ministry of Finance, provide that the Regional National Committees take over the reimbursement of certain costs referred to in paragraph 1.
Entry into races and requesting reports
Persons authorised to carry out fire inspections and inspections shall have the right to enter plants and buildings and to require reports and evidence of the state of the fire fighting measures.
Detection of fire causes
(1) The management authorities of the district national committees shall identify the causes of the fires and shall be entitled to take all measures that may lead to the detection of the causes of the fires, in particular, they may request from anyone the explanations necessary to clarify the cause of the fire. If they find that there is a reasonable suspicion that the fire was caused by a criminal offence or an offence, they shall immediately inform the competent authorities.
(2) In serious cases, the causes of fires may also be identified by the executive bodies of the Regional National Committees, or by the executive bodies of the National Committee of the City of Brno, the National Committee of the City of Ostrava and the National Committee of the City of Pilsen, and the Ministry of Interior.
Exclusion of goods from use
The Executive Authorities of the District National Committees may exclude from the use of a case which, by its shortcomings, endangers the fire safety of people or property, as a general rule, for a period which they shall at the same time lay down to remedy the deficiencies.
Stopping operation in the plants
(1) If other measures in the field of fire protection are not sufficient to eliminate the causes of the imminent risk of fire, the management authority of the district national committee may, pending recovery, stop the individual operations causing that risk at the plant. Under the same conditions, the management authority of the Regional National Committee, or the management authority of the National Committee of the City of Brno, the National Committee of the City of Ostrava or the National Committee of the City of Pilsen may order the operation to cease throughout the plant.
(2) A decision to cease operations cannot be taken without the prior comments of the plant manager; the authority or organisation of the immediate establishment of the superior must also be informed in advance of the matter.
(3) Stopped operations may be restarted only with the consent of the authority which issued the decision to stop them.
Tasks of central authorities and other central authorities
(1) The central authorities and other central authorities manage and organise fire protection in their field of competence in accordance with the principles established by the Ministry of Interior and control its implementation.
(2) The organisation of fire protection in rail, water and air transport and the organisation of fire protection in forestry is governed by regulations issued by the competent central authorities in agreement with the Ministry of Interior.
(3) The Ministry of National Defence manages, organises and controls fire protection in its field of competence by its own authorities; it is governed by the Ministry of Interior guidelines. The organisation and establishment of fire protection units in the field of the Ministry of National Defence shall be regulated by the Ministry of National Defence by specific regulations.
(4) The Minister of Interior shall determine the implementation of fire protection in the premises of the armed parts of the Ministry of Interior.
(5) Specific regulations apply to ensure the fire safety of operations in establishments under the supervision of the State Mining Administration.
(6) Trade unions and labour inspection bodies cooperate with fire protection authorities on fire safety issues and draw their attention to the shortcomings identified.
Tasks of the plants
(1) plant managers are responsible for the state of fire protection at the plant and organise its implementation, in particular as regards fire prevention; they rely on the appropriate organisation of the Czechoslovak Fire Protection Association.
(2) The plants provide the means of fire protection in kind and cover the personal and material costs of fire protection in the plants.
(3) The race under this law is also understood as enterprises, institutes, offices and other establishments.
Czechoslovak Fire Protection Union and its basic tasks
(1) In order to carry out fire protection tasks, citizens in the voluntary organisation of the Czechoslovak Union of Fire Protection join together. The task of the Union is to assist the national committees and their executive bodies, other state bodies and fire-fighting plants.
(2) The Union popularises the issues of fire protection among citizens, acquires and prepares them for active participation in the implementation of fire protection, co-operates in the establishment of voluntary fire protection units, in the procurement and maintenance of material fire protection devices and participates in the fight against fire.
(3) The association further organises house fire patrols and their training, provides training and training for voluntary fire protection units, carries out fire inspections in residential houses and in smaller plants, including agriculture. These tasks shall be carried out by the Union in accordance with the instructions of the executive bodies of the local national committees; in the race they are performed in cooperation with the management of the race.
(4) The Union is to reimburse members of public voluntary fire protection units for the necessary travel expenses and compensation for the loss of earnings associated with training to the extent provided for in the implementing rules.
(5) The Ministry of the Interior, the National Committees and their executive bodies may entrust the Union, after other voluntary organisation, to other fire protection tasks.
(6) The Ministry of the Interior, the National Committees and their executive bodies control and assist the Union in carrying out its fire protection tasks.
Fire protection units
Fire protection units and their tasks
(1) Public and racing fire protection units are the executive components; They're fire services, fire corps and fire patrols. Their task is to fight fires and other natural disasters and accidents, prevent fires and raise citizens to that end.
(2) Fire department members shall perform fire protection tasks as their profession, fire services and fire patrols shall perform them as volunteer personnel.
Fire services
(1) Public fire services are the body of the municipal (district) national committees; racing fire services are the body of the plants.
(2) The Department of the Interior provides for the organisation of fire services as regards the racing services in agreement with the central authorities involved.
Fire Corps
(1) Public fire departments are the body of local national committees.
(2) Public fire departments establish executive bodies of local national committees, generally from members of the Czechoslovak Union of Fire Protection; the College Commander shall be appointed by the competent authority of the Union and shall be endorsed by the Board of the Local National Committee.
(3) The fire brigade is the body of the plant and is set up by the management of the plant, preferably from members of the Union.
Fire patrols
Fire patrols are set up in municipalities and factories where a fire brigade cannot be established yet. Fire patrols may also be set up to enhance the fire safety of grub crops, smashing centres, warehouses, etc. The fire patrols in the municipalities are set up by the executive bodies of the local national committees, in races leading the race.
Fire departments with professional fire protection personnel
Where the state of fire safety so permits, the fire department may provide fire protection for the municipality or plant. In order to increase the alert and the ability of the fire brigade to act, professional firemen may be set up in the framework of the work plan in the most necessary number of working persons to ensure rapid intervention by the fire department or to carry out normal preventive fire measures as necessary.
Authorisation of fire protection officers
Members of fire protection units shall enjoy the protection of a public official in the performance of the service. They may, in the course of the service, order persons not required to leave the place of intervention or to submit to certain restrictions needed to carry out the intervention successfully.
Confidentiality obligation
(1) Fire protection personnel shall be required to maintain confidentiality regarding matters which they have learned in or in connection with their activities and which require, in the general interest or in the interests of the parties concerned, to be kept secret.
(2) The management authority of the local national committee may waive confidentiality obligations; If there are professional firemen, their employer.
(3) The obligation to remain silent shall continue after termination of employment or after completion of the task.
Contributions to voluntary fire protection units
(1) Where a member of a public or racing voluntary fire protection unit has suffered, or who, at the request of the executive body of the local national committee or the commander of the intervention, has personally assisted in the intervention of the fire protection unit, in the performance of the fire service, or has been killed or died in that service, the Ministry of the Interior may grant him (its survivors) a one-off contribution in accordance with the principles laid down in the Agreement with the Ministry of Finance.
(2) Claims for compensation for accidents under other statutory provisions remain unaffected.
Performance of fire protection personnel
(1) The performance of the service of fire protection personnel of the Ministry of Interior, Regional and District National Committees and members of fire services is adapted to the principles applicable to troops to the extent set by the Ministry of Interior in agreement with the Ministry of National Defence; In doing so, the Ministry of the Interior may also lay down their disciplinary responsibility and regulate disciplinary proceedings.
(2) The performance of the service of members of voluntary fire protection units shall be regulated by the Ministry of the Interior in agreement with the Czechoslovak Fire Protection Union.
Uniformity and rank
(1) Fire protection personnel of the Ministry of the Interior, Regional and Regional National Committees, as well as members of fire departments, are in uniform, if necessary required for the performance of their duties, and rank, corresponding to the military rank designated as belonging to the fire protection component. Details are provided by the Ministry of Interior in agreement with the Ministry of National Defence and the Ministry of Finance.
(2) Members of the fire brigades belong to the uniform. The Czechoslovak Fire Protection Association will adjust the details with the agreement of the Ministry of Interior in agreement with the Ministry of Finance.
Cooperation of citizens in fire protection
Obligation to report fire
(1) Anyone who notices a fire which can be extinguished immediately shall be obliged to do so immediately. If this is not possible, he shall immediately make an alert and notify the fire protection unit so that the fire protection unit can act as soon as possible. This obligation is also for those who have been informed of the fire by a person who cannot report himself for serious obstacles or who can report the fire faster than the person who noticed the fire.
(2) All appropriate means are used to report fire. Their holders shall be obliged to give them for free use, provided that they are also operated. The same applies to the reporting of service reports from the intervention site.
Personal assistance in the intervention or training of fire protection units
(1) Everyone is obliged to assist personally in the intervention of the fire protection unit in calling on the executive body of the local national committee or the intervention commander. For the purposes of the fire protection unit exercise, only the management authority of the local national committee may impose a personal assistance obligation within the scope of the implementing rules.
(2) Personal assistance includes a service in a fire protection unit to which a citizen has been called by an executive body of the local national committee.
Aid in kind
Each person shall be obliged to provide, for the purposes of intervention, the means of transport, fuel and other necessary means of transport, in particular fire-fighting equipment, as well as water supplies and sources, to call on the executive authority of the local national committee or the intervention commander. For the purpose of the fire protection unit exercise, only the management authority of the local national committee may impose such an obligation within the scope of the implementing rules.
Obligations of owners and users of real estate
(1) Anyone managing or supervising property affected by fire or directly threatened by it is obliged to allow access to land and buildings for the purpose of carrying out the tasks ordered to prevent or deter fire, after carrying out the required rescue work.
(2) The persons referred to in paragraph 1 shall be obliged to allow the management authority of the local national committee or the intervention commander to carry out the necessary measures for the successful control of the fire, for the prevention of its spread or for the successful execution of the rescue work, in particular the removal of land, the removal of buildings or parts of buildings or of crops.
(3) The obligations referred to in the preceding paragraphs shall also apply to those who manage or supervise the surrounding property where necessary for the purpose of intervention by the fire protection unit.
(4) If the general interest so requires, the management authority of the local national committee may impose on anyone who manages or oversees the property in order to allow the fire protection unit access to land and buildings for exercise purposes.
(5) Specific rules apply to the entry into the land and military administration premises.
Any person who manages or oversees a property shall be obliged to carry out on that property, in the case of other matters which are there, on his cargo of measures imposed by the management authority of the local national committee or other competent authority of the state administration, provided that under the applicable rules no other person is required to bear such costs. The rules on the construction of municipalities, in particular the compulsory modification of buildings, remain unaffected.
Provisions common and final
Cooperation of other institutions
(1) Central authorities and other state and other authorities are required to assist the Ministry of the Interior, the National Committees and their executive bodies in providing fire protection.
(2) The Ministry of the Interior may, in agreement with the competent central authorities, entrust their subordinate bodies and organisations with certain fire protection tasks.
Implementing rules
(1) The Government will, by regulation, make provision for damages caused in the performance of fire protection tasks.
(2) The Government may also lay down provisions on measures to prevent fires and other natural disasters or accidents.
(3) The Ministry of the Interior shall adapt the other details for the implementation of this Act in agreement with the central authorities involved.
(4) Measures taken before the entry into force of the law which comply with its provisions shall be deemed to have been taken under it.
Repeal
(1) The following shall be deleted:
1. Act No. 35 / 1953 Coll., on State Fire Control and Fire Protection, and Government Decree No. 95 / 1953 Coll., on the Organisation of State Fire Control and Fire Protection. The provisions issued for their implementation shall be repealed on the date on which the provisions issued under this Law become effective;
2. Paragraph 2 (1) (a) of Decree-Law No 17 / 1954 Coll., on the pay ratios of employees of the State apparatus, as far as the members of the State fire surveillance are concerned.
(2) The working and salary ratios of fire protection personnel at the headquarters of the Ministry of Interior, Regional and Regional National Committees are governed by the provisions of Act No. 66 / 1950 Coll., on the employment and pay ratios of civil servants, and Government Decree No. 17 / 1954 Coll., on the pay ratios of civil servants, as amended by the Law Act No. 60 / 1956 Coll., and by the relevant implementing provisions.
Efficiency of the law
This Act shall take effect on the day of its publication; It shall be implemented by the Minister for the Interior in agreement with participating members of the Government.
Novotný v. r.
Fierlinger v. r.
Broad v. r.
Bark v. r.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Act No. 18 / 1958 Coll., on Fire Protection |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 30.04.1958 |
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| Effective from | 30.04.1958 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
The regulation text is for informational purposes only.
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