Act No. 62 / 1950 Coll.
Law on the Protection against Fire and Other Natural Destructions
Valid
Effective from 09.07.1950
62.
Law
of 17 May 1950
on protection against fires and other natural disasters.
The National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Republic decided on the following Act:
Population interaction.
(1) Effective protection of the national economy requires the widest possible synergies of the population. Therefore, apart from the emergency of a universally organised firehouse, everyone is obliged to provide, according to his or her strength, the necessary personal and material assistance in preventing and combating fires and other natural disasters or accidents, in particular if human health, lives or national property are at risk.
(2) What is provided for in this Act on fire protection applies mutatis mutandis to protection against other natural disasters or accidents.
Fire protection.
Tasks of national committees.
(1) Local national committees are responsible for preventing and combating fires in municipalities. In particular, they shall ensure that a firehouse is established in the municipality, procure and maintain material means for local fire protection purposes and carry out fire inspections.
(2) Local national committees shall assist each other in carrying out fire protection tasks.
(3) The district and regional national committees in their district are responsible for providing fire protection in their district, as far as these are not tasks which the subordinate national committees can carry out with their forces and resources.
(4) National committees may also invite legal persons or other sets of persons operating in their district to cooperate in the field of fire protection in accordance with the guidelines of the Ministry of the Interior, after which they may delegate some of their fire protection tasks to them.
Fire protection measures.
(1) The Ministry of the Interior and the National Committees may, for the purposes of fire protection within the limits of the applicable rules, take the measures necessary in the interests of the whole, both in individual cases and in general by issuing general legislation. National committees may issue such general legislation for their circuits after prior approval by a superior body. In cases of exceptional and urgent urgency, the additional approval deemed to be granted shall be sufficient, unless the superior authority decides within 30 days of the date on which the application for approval was received.
(2) Regional national committees may also take measures in their area of local fire protection, which are the responsibility of local national committees, if they are measures relating to the circuits of two or more local national committees, or if the local national committee itself does not take the necessary measures in a timely manner. If the territory exceeds the district of the national committee, the regional national committee shall be called upon to take action.
Central surveillance and management.
(1) Fire protection falls within the field of competence of the Ministry of the Interior, which is also the responsibility of the highest supervision and management.
(2) Where fire protection measures concern undertakings or other facilities falling within the competence of other central offices, the Ministry of the Interior shall proceed with them in agreement and the relevant national committees shall proceed with them in accordance with the directives issued by the Ministry of Interior in agreement with those authorities.
Fire department.
Tasks.
(1) The fire department is the executive body of the National Committee for Fire Protection. Fire department is essentially voluntary or professional or racing.
(2) The task of the fireman is to prevent and combat fires and other natural disasters or accidents, unless otherwise entrusted by other authorities under the statutory rules. The fire brigade commander shall be responsible for the fire brigade emergency to the relevant national committee.
Fire department voluntary.
(1) To ensure fire protection in the municipality, the population of the fire brigade is brought together; The local national committee shall establish and complement the voluntary fire department in cooperation with the association.
(2) Voluntary fire brigade shall be established in principle in any municipality in which there is insufficient professional fire brigade.
Occupational firefighting.
(1) In principle, the professional fire department will set up every local national committee in the municipality with more than 50,000 inhabitants. In a village with fewer inhabitants, the local national committee will set up such a firehouse, if determined by the regional national committee.
(2) If the interest of fire protection so requires, the District and Regional National Committee for its district or part of its district may set up an occupational fire department, after which it may entrust the competent fire department to carry out its tasks in its district.
Fire department racing.
(1) The implementation of the fire protection of the plant belongs primarily to the fire brigade which establishes the plant of its employees. The District National Committee shall determine, in conjunction with the management of the plant, whether a fire brigade will be established in the race and in what number of members.
(2) The District National Committee will determine when the fire brigade is called to intervene outside the plant.
A job in the fire department.
If it is not possible to set up a firehouse in accordance with § § 6 to 8 or if the firehouse is not sufficient for its tasks, the local national committee shall call on the required number of eligible persons in the firehouse from 17 to 60 years of age. The approval of the head of the national committee shall be required for such establishment or addition of the firehouse.
Professional supervision.
The local national committees and their superior regional and regional national committees, in the highest seat of the Ministry of the Interior, carry out expert supervision of the fire department (§ 6 to 9). The competent supervisory authorities may issue binding instructions and directives to the fire department and its members.
Measures of resources.
Cost reimbursement.
(1) The costs of measures and the maintenance of the means of fire protection in kind shall be borne by the national committees. The same shall apply to the costs of setting up and maintaining a firehouse, subject to paragraph 2.
(2) The costs of setting up and maintaining the fire protection of the plant, with the costs of setting and maintaining the firefighting plant, are borne by the plant.
(3) The costs incurred by the action of the fire brigade outside the plant will be borne by the local national committee within whose perimeter the intervention took place, unless a fair request for free cooperation can be made.
(4) The Government shall, by regulation, lay down whether and to what extent the State pays fire brigade members and those calling on the fire brigade, as well as other persons engaged in the field of fire protection, in particular in the intervention or training of the firehouse.
(5) National insurance of persons referred to in paragraph 4, in particular in the intervention or training of the fireman, unless they are already insured otherwise, shall be regulated by the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare pursuant to Article 3 (5) of Act No. 99 / 1948 Coll., on National Insurance, as amended by Act No. 269 / 1949 Coll. Expenditure on this insurance shall be borne by the State.
Measures of material fire protection equipment.
(1) The Ministry of the Interior co-operates in the standardisation and characterisation of fire protection items and equipment. It shall also participate in the planning of fire protection material, provide supporting documents for their production and make arrangements for their effective distribution.
(2) The Minister of the Interior may, by regulation, determine how items and equipment serving fire protection are to be procured and tested.
The assets of the fire brigade, which serve fire protection, shall not be removed from that designation. The national committees shall ensure that this provision is maintained.
Provisions common and final.
A detail adjustment.
(1) The Government shall, by regulation, define obligations for personal and material assistance in the prevention and control of fires, in particular in the intervention and training of firefighters, and amend the tasks of the national firefighting committees, the activities and organisation of firefighters and the rights and obligations of its members, as well as the principles of the organisation of firefighters' associations. It may entrust the modification of details in the Regulation to the general rules of the Ministry of Interior and other institutions.
(2) The Department of the Interior shall adapt the management of the fire department's service, its training, training and external marking by means of a decree in the relevant official list.
Power to modify the field of fire protection.
The Government may, by regulation, lay down provisions on measures to prevent fires and other natural disasters or to prevent accidents, as well as provisions on measures to replace housing, buildings and installations. The regulation may entrust details to the general rules of national committees and other offices.
Criminal provisions.
(1) Who does not take care of the necessary precautions to prevent or combat fire, other natural disasters or accidents, or who in such cases does not contribute to the assistance, although obliged to do so, or who does not carry out the tasks to which he is obliged, or who grossly violates his duty as a firefighter, will be punished unless the offence is more severely punishable, by the District National Committee by a fine of up to 50,000 CZK or by a prison (lockdown) within two months.
(2) In the same way, it will be punished if it is not a more severe criminal act, who makes it difficult or impossible for the fireman to intervene or mislead the fireman with malicious alarms or misuses the signals reserved for the fireman.
(3) In the event of non-availability of the fine, a replacement prison sentence (lockdown) shall be imposed within two months, but the cumulative length of the prison (lockdown) shall not exceed two months.
Fire protection in mining.
The existing regulations, according to which care for fire protection in mining under the surface and on the surface, remain unaffected. The cooperation between these authorities and the national committees in the field of mining fire protection will be regulated by the Ministry of Interior in agreement with the Ministry of Industry.
Efficiency and execution.
(1) The applicability of Government Decree No. 30 / 1942 Coll., on Fire Protection Matters, and the validity, if applicable, of other provisions contrary to that Act is hereby revoked.
(2) The date on which the government regulation issued pursuant to Paragraph 14 (1) comes into force, after the applicability of any provisions contained in other provisions on the subject matter covered by this Regulation, in particular the existing provisions of the Fire Regulations in the Czech and similar countries in Slovakia will cease to apply.
This Act shall take effect on the 30th day following its publication; It shall be implemented by the Minister for the Interior in agreement with participating members of the Government.
Gottwald v. r.
Dr John v. r.
Zaporocký v. r.
Nosek v. r.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Act No. 62 / 1950 Coll., on protection against fires and other natural disasters |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 09.06.1950 |
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| Effective from | 09.07.1950 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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