Chương V Luật phòng cháy chữa cháy 2001: Phương tiện phòng cháy và chữa cháy

Chapter V

FIRE PREVENTION AND FIGHTING MEANS

Article 50.- Equipment of fire prevention and fighting means for establishments, villages, hamlets, urban quarters, households, forests of all kinds and motorized transport means

1. Agencies, organizations and individuals shall have to equip fire prevention and fighting means for establishments, forests of all kinds and motorized transport means under their respective management.

The commune-level People’s Committees shall have to equip civil defense groups with fire prevention and fighting means.

Organizations and individuals engaged in production, business and service activities and owners of forests and motorized transport means other than the State-owned ones shall have to equip themselves with fire prevention and fighting means.

2. Households shall have to prepare conditions and means for fire prevention and fighting.

3. The Ministry of Public Security shall specify and guide conditions as well as the equipment of fire prevention and fighting means for subjects defined in Clauses 1 and 2 of this Article.

Article 51.- Equipment for fire prevention and fighting police force

The State shall equip fire prevention and fighting police force with fire-fighting means and other necessary facilities and devices, ensuring their completeness and step-by-step modernization, thereby meeting the requirements on fire-fighting and rescue of people in all circumstances.

Article 52.- Management and use of fire prevention and fighting means

1. Fire prevention and fighting means of agencies, organizations, households and individuals must be managed and used to ensure their readiness for fire fighting.

2. The motorized fire-fighting means, besides being used for fire fighting, shall be used only in service of the requirements to ensure social security, order and safety and in other special cases as prescribed by the Government.

Article 53.- Production and import of fire prevention and fighting means

1. The home-made or imported fire prevention and fighting means must ensure quality and standards and suit the Vietnamese conditions.

2. Organizations and individuals producing and/or trading in fire prevention and fighting means must satisfy all conditions on material and technical foundations according to regulations of the competent State bodies in charge of fire prevention and fighting.