Chương VIII Luật bảo vệ môi trường 2014: Bảo vệ môi trường đô thị, khu dân cư

Chapter VIII

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN URBAN AREAS AND RESIDENTIAL AREAS

Article 80. Environmental protection requirements applied to urban areas and residential areas

1. Urban environmental protection must ensure sustainable development associated with sustention of natural, cultural, historical elements and the proportion of green space according to planning.

2. The infrastructural works serving environmental protection are uniform and conformable with the urban planning approved by a competent authority.

3. There are adequate equipment, vehicles and places for classifying wastes at source, collecting, gathering domestic solid wastes, and receiving wastes classified by households therein.

4. Ensure urban landscape, environmental hygiene; public sanitation works are installed.

5. Investors in concentrated residential area projects and apartment buildings shall fulfill the environmental protection requirements prescribed in Clause 2 and Clause 3 of this Article.

6. Scattered residential areas must have places and system for collecting and treating wastes, clean water supply systems, and activities to develop a green, clean, and safe environment.

Article 81. Environmental protection in public places

1. Organizations, households, and individuals are responsible for complying with environmental protection regulations and keep public hygiene; classify wastes and put them into public trashcans or permissible dumpsites; do not let domestic animals spoil public hygiene.

2. Managers of parks, amusement parks, tourist resorts, markets, train stations, bus stations, ports, ferry terminals, and other public places shall:

a) Appoint employees to collect wastes and clean the environment under their management;

b) Provide public sanitation works; equipment and vehicles for collecting wastes to ensure environmental hygiene;

c) Post public hygiene regulations.

Article 82. Environmental protection requirements applied to households

1. Minimize, classify wastes at source; collect and take wastes to proper places.

2. Minimize, process, and discharge domestic sewages at proper places.

3. Do not emit exhaust gases, make noises, vibration, and other impacts beyond the limits in environmental standards, which cause negative impacts to the local community.

4. Pay environmental protection fees sufficiently and punctually; pay fees for wastes collection and waste treatment services as prescribed by law;

5. Participate in public environmental protection tasks.

6. The sanitation works and breeding farms must ensure hygiene and safety.

Article 83. Autonomous environmental protection organizations

1. Communities are encouraged by the State to establish local autonomous environmental protection organizations.

2. Autonomous environmental protection organizations are established and operated voluntarily in accordance with law to perform the following tasks:

a) Urge households and individuals to comply with regulations on hygiene and environmental protection;

b) Organize the collection, gathering, and treatment of wastes;

c) Keep environmental hygiene in the residential area and public places;

d) Formulate and organize the implementation of environmental protection commitments; encourage the people to give up unsound customs and bad habits that are harmful for health and the environment;

d) Participate in supervision of adherence to regulations of law on environmental protection of local manufacturing and business establishments.

3. The People’s Committees of communes shall specify the organization, operation of autonomous environmental protection organizations, and facilitate their operation.

Article 84. Environmental protection during burial and cremation

1. Every burial and cremation site must:

a) Comply with the planning;

b) Its location and distance satisfy the requirements with regard to environmental hygiene and landscape of the residential area;

c) Not pollute water sources and the surroundings.

2. Dead bodies and remains shall be treated, transported, and buried in accordance with environmental hygiene requirements.

3. The burial of people who die of dangerous epidemics shall comply with regulations of the Ministry of Health.

4. Provider of burial services must comply with regulations of law on environmental protection and infection control.

5. The State recommends that cremation and burial be carried out in cemeteries according to planning and unsound customs that cause environmental pollution be given up.