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THE MEASURES TO PREVENT ADMINISTRATIVE VIOLATIONS AND ENSURE THE HANDLING THEREOF

Chapter I

GENERAL PROVISION ON THE MEASURES TO PREVENT ADMINISTRATIVE VIOLATIONS AND ENSURE THE HANDLING THEREOF

Article 119. The measures to prevent administrative violations and ensure the handling thereof

In case need timely prevent administrative violations or in order to ensure the handling of administrative violations, the competent persons may apply the following measures according to administrative procedures:

1. Custody of involved persons;

2. Escorting the violator;

3. Custody of material evidences and/or means of the administrative violations, permits, or professional practice certificates;

4. Body search;

5. Inspection of transport means and objects;

6. Search of places where material evidences and/or means of administrative violations are hidden;

7. Management of foreigners who have violated Vietnamese law while the expulsion procedures are carried out;

8. Assigning family, organization to manage the person who is proposed to apply the administrative handling measures while the procedures for application of administrative handling measures are carried out;

9. Hunting for subjects who have to serve decisions on sending to reformatories, compulsory education establishments or compulsory detoxification establishments if they escape.

Article 120. The application principles of measures to prevent administrative violations and ensure the handling thereof

1. When applying measures to prevent administrative violations and ensure the handling thereof, the competent persons must strictly obey by provisions on artices from 120 to 132 of this Law, if violating, they shall be handled as prescribed by law.

2. Just applying measures to prevent administrative violations and ensure the handling thereof in necessary cases as prescribed in Chapter II of this part.

3. The person who issuring decision on applying measures to prevent administrative violations and ensure the handling thereof, must be responsible for his/her decision.

4. Using weapon, supporting tools in application of measures to prevent administrative violations and ensure the handling thereof, must be comply with provisions of law.

Article 121. The cancellation or replacement of measures to prevent administrative violations and ensure the handling thereof

1. In case application of measures to prevent administrative violations and ensure the handling thereof is not conformable to purpose and application condition as prescribed by this Law, the decision on application of such measure must be cancelled.

2. The persons who have authority to decide application of measures to prevent administrative violations and ensure the handling thereof shall decide cancellation of measures to prevent administrative violations when such measures are not neccesary or replace them by other an other measures to prevent administrative violations.

Chapter II

THE AUTHORITIES OF AND PROCEDURES FOR APPLICATION OF MEASURES TO PREVENT ADMINISTRATIVE VIOLATIONS AND ENSURE THE HANDLING THEREOF

Article 122. Custody of involved persons according to administrative procedures

1. Custody of involved persons according to administrative procedures is just applied in cases need prevent, stop immediately acts causing public disturbance, causing injury to other persons.

2. All cases of human custody must be decided in writing and copies of the decisions must be handed over to the persons subject to custody, each with one copy thereof.

3. The time limit for human custody according to administrative procedures must not exceed 12 hours; in case of necessity, the custody time limit can be prolonged but must not exceed 24 hours as from the starting time of custody of the violators;

For persons who violate border regulations or commit administrative violations in distant, secluded mountain or island areas, the custody time limit may be longer, but must not exceed 48 hours as from the starting time of custody of the violators;

For the person who be kept on airplane or ship must transfer immediately to competent agencies when the airplane landed airport or ship arrived port.

4. At the request of person in custody, the person issuing decision on custody must notify to his/her family, organization where working or studying there of. In case custody of minors committed administrative violations atnoght or custody over 06 hours, the person issuing decision on custody must notify immediately to their parents or guardian thereof.

5. The places used for custody person according to administrative procedures are administrative custody house or room which is arranged in headoffice of agencies, units where working of person having authority for issuance of decision on custody of administrative violation persons. If there is no administrative custody house or room, custody places may be watchkeeping rooms or other rooms in working place, but must ensure general provisions.

Agencies with function of preventing law violations which must regularly keep persons committed administrative violations in custody need arrange, design and build the administrative custody houses or private rooms, which need have separate custody places for minors, woman or foreigners and must have specialized officers to manage and protect.

For airplanes, ships, trains which have left out airports, harbors, stations, depending on specific condition and subjects committed violations, the commanders of airplanes, captains, heads of train shall decide the custody places and assign person to be in charge of custody.

6. To strictly prohibite custody of persons committed administrative violations in criminal custody rooms, detaining rooms or places not ensure hygien, safety for the person subject to custody.

7. The Government shall prescribe custody of involved persons according to administrative procedures.

Article 123. Authorities of custody of involved persons according to administrative procedures

1. In cases a person has acts causing public disturbance, causing injury to other persons specified in clause 1 Article 122 of this Law, the following persons have right to decide custody of involved persons according to administrative procedures.

a) Presidents of commune-level People’s Committee, ward police heads;

b) District Police Heads;

c) The heads of the Police Bureaus for Administrative Management of Social Order, heads of the Police Bureaus for order, heads of the Police Bureaus for traffic in roadway, railway, heads of the Police Bureaus for waterway, heads of the Police Bureaus for Investigating Drug-related Crimes, heads of Exit and Entry Management Bureaus under provincial-level Police Department; heads of the Police Bureaus for Criminal-Judgment Execution and Justice Support, heads of the Police Bureaus for Prevention and Combat of Environmental Crimes;

d) Heads of Mobile Police units of the company or higher level, heads of the Police Stations at border gates;

dd) The heads of the Ranger units, leaders of the Mobile Ranger teams;

e) The heads of the Customs Sub- Departments, the leaders of the Control Teams of the Customs Departments, the leaders of the Anti-Smuggling Inspection Teams and the leaders of the sea patrol flotillas under the Anti-Smuggling Investigation Department of the General Department of Customs;

g) The leaders of the Market Management teams;

h) The commanders of the border sub-regions, the commanders of the port border-gate, the commanders of the border fleets, commanders of the border flotillas, the heads of the border posts and the commanders of the border guard units stationing in border and island regions;

i) Commanders of the Coast Guard flotillas, fleets, regional commnaders of coast guard;

k) Airplane or ship captains or heads of trains when airplanes or ships leave airports or sea ports, stations;

l) The judges chairing the court sessions.

2. The persons competent to custody of involved persons specified from a to i clause 1 of this Article may delegate for their deputies. The delegating is just performed when the leaders being absent and must be presented in writing, in which clearly defining the delegated scope, content, time limit. The deputies being delegated must be responsible for their decisions before the leaders and before the law. The delegated persons are not allowed to further delegate or authorize for any other individual.

Article 124. Escorting the violators

1. If the violators not voluntarily observe the request of competent persons, they shall be escorted in the following cases:

a) Being subject to custody of involved persons according to administrative procedures;

b) Sending back to reformatories, compulsory education establishments, compulsory detoxification establishments as prescribed in clause 2, Article 132 of this Law.

2. The competent persons on duty implement escorting the violators.

3. The Government provides in details escorting the violators.

Article 125. Custody of material evidences and/or means of the administrative violations, permits, professional practice certificates according to administrative procedures

1. The custody of material evidences and/or means of the administrative violations, permits, and professional practice certificates according to administrative procedures are applied just in the following realy necessary cases:

a) In order to certify facts which if not custody, there shall be not base to issue sanctioning decision. In case custody for evaluate material evidences of the administrative violations serve as basic to define the fine bracket, the authority to impose sanctions, provisions of clause 3, article 60 of this Law shall be applied;

b) In order to prevent immediately acts of administrative violations which if not custody, may cause serious consequences for society;

c) In order to ensure execution of decisions sanctioning administrative violation as prescribed in clause 6 of this Article.

 2. The custody of material evidences and/or means of the administrative violations specified in clause 1 of this Article must be terminated right after verifying facts as the basis for deciding sanction, the violation acts no longer cause danger for society or the sanctioning decision is executed.

In case being allow to pay fines for many times as prescribed in Article 79 of this Law, after paying fines for first time, the violator may be receive material evidences and/or means of the administrative violations subject to custody.

3. The persons competent to apply sanctions forms of custody of material evidences and/or means of administrative violations as prescribed in Chapter II, the second Part of this Law shall have authority to custody of material evidences and/or means used for administrative violations.

4. In cases there are grounds to assume that if not custody immediately, material evidences and/or means of administrative violations may be dispersed, destroyed, the direct heads of people’s police officers, police members of the Coast Guard, the Border guard combatants, ranger officers, customer officials, market controllers who are on official duty must perform immediately custody of material evidences and/or means of administrative violations. Within 24 hours, after making records, the record makers must report to their heads who are persons competent to custody of material evidences and/or means of administrative violations specified in clause 1 of this Article, in order to consider and issue decision on custody; for cases material evidences are perishable goods, the persons who are temporarily keeping goods must report immediately to their heads for settlement, if let goods be spoiled or lost, they must pay compensation as prescribed by law. If not issuing decision on custody, material evidences and/or means of administrative violations subject to custody must be repay back immediately.

5. The persons who issuing decision on custody of material evidences and means of administrative violations, shall preserve such material evidences and means of administrative violations. In case material evidences and means of administrative violations are lost, sold, swapped or faulted, their components are lost, replaced, the person who issuing decision on custody of material evidences and means of administrative violations, must have responsibility for paying compensation and handled as prescribed by law.

Where the material evidences and/or means need to be sealed, the sealing thereof must be conducted immediately in front of the violators; if the violators are absent, the sealing must be conducted in front of their families' representatives, organizations’ representatives, the administrations’ representatives and the witnesses.

The custody of material evidences and/or means of administrative violations must be effected by written decisions which must be enclosed with records on the custody and handed over to the violators or representatives of the violating organizations, each with one copy thereof.

6. Where the sanctioning form of fine is applied only to violating individuals or organizations, the persons with sanctioning competence may temporarily seize one of papers of kinds under order as follows: the driving licenses or permits for circulation of means or other necessary relevant papers related to material evidences and/or means of violations until such individuals or organizations completely execute the sanctioning decisions. If the violating individuals or organizations do not have the above-mentioned papers, the persons with sanctioning competence may temporarily seize the material evidences and/or means of violations, except for case specified in clause 10 of this Article.

7. The individuals, organizations violating administrative violations in cases subject to application of forms of sanctions of depriving the right to use permits, professional practice certificates may be temporarily seized permits, professional practice certificates in order to ensure execution of sanctioning decision. The temporarily seizing permits, professional practice certificates while issuing decision not influence the use right of permits, professional practice certificates of such individuals, organizations.

8. The time limit of temporarily seizing material evidences and/or means of violations, permits, or professional practice certificates is 07 days, after day of temporarily seizing. The time limit of temporarily seizing may be prolonged for cases with complex facts, need verify but not exceeding 30 days, as from the days of temporarily seizing material evidences, permits, professional practice certificates.

For cases specified in paragraph 2, clause 1, Article 66 of this Law, which need have more time to certify, the competent persons solving cases must report to their direct heads in writing in order to request for extension of temporary seize; the extension must presented in writing, time limit of extension not exceeding 30 days.

The time limit of temporarily seizing material evidences and/or means of violations, permits, professional practice certificates is calculated from time point when material evidences and/or means of violations, permits, professional practice certificates are temporarily seized in reality.

The time limit of temporarily seizing material evidences and/or means of violations, permits, professional practice certificates not exceeding time limit of issuing decision on sanctioning administrative violations specified in Article 66 of this Law, except from case specified in point c, clause 1 of this Article.

9. All cases of temporarily seizing material evidences and/or means of violations, permits, or professional practice certificates must be make records. In records must indicate name, quantity, kinds, condition of temporarily-seized material evidences and/or means and must have signatures of the person issuing decision on custody, of violators; if it fails to define violators, the violators are absent or do not sign, there must be signatures of 02 witnesses. The record must be made into 02 copies, the person competent to custody keeps 01 copy, the violator keeps 01 copy.

10. For means of transport which have caused administrative violations in cases being seixed in order to ensure execution of decision on sanctioning administrative violations, if the violating organizations, individuals have clear address, have condition of yard-storage for preserving means or financial ability to pay guarantee amounts, they may allow to keep the means of violations under management of the competent state agencies.

The Government shall prescribe in details this clause.

Article 126. The handling of temporarily seized material evidences and/or means, permits, professional practice certificates according to administrative procedures

1. The person issuing decision on temporarily custody must handle the seaized material evidences and/or means, permits, professional practice certificates under record indicated in the sactioning decision or repay for individuals, organizations if the sanctioning form of confiscating the custody material evidences and/or means, the sanctioning form of stripping off the right to use permits, professional practice certificates are not applied.

For material evidences and/or means being seized are appropriated, illegally used for administrative violations in cases being confiscated, they shall be returned for their owners, managers or legal users. In this case, the violating individuals, organizations must pay an amount equivalent to value of violation material evidences and/or means into the State budget.

If the owners, managers, or legal users have intentional fault in using material evidences and/or means of the violators as prescribed in Article 26 of this Law, such material evidences and/or means shall be confiscated in order to remit to the State budget.

2. For temporarily seized material evidences and/or means, permits, professional practice certificates in order to ensure execution of sanctioning decision according to clause 6 Article 125 of this Law, they must be retured for the sanctioned person after finished execution of sanctioning decision.

3. For material evidences of administrative violations are perishable goods, products, the person issung decision on temporarily seizing must immediately sell under market price and the sale must be made in record. The collected amounts must be sent to a temporarily-deposit account at State Treasuries. If after that, under decision of competent persons, such material evidences are confiscated, the collected amounts must be remitted into the State budget, if such material evidences are not confiscated, the collected amounts must be returned to the owners, managers, or legal users.

4. For material evidences, means of administrative violations which have been over time limit of temporarily seizing, if the violator does not come to receive them and has no ligetimated reason or case of failing to define the violator, the person issuing decision on temporarily seizing must notify on means of mass media and list public at headquater of agency of the person competent to seizing; within 30 days, after notifying, and public listing, if the violators does not come to receive, the competent person must issue decision on confiscating material evidences, means of administrative violations for handling as prescribed in Article 82 of this Law.

5. For material evidences, means of administrative violations which are goods, products causing harmful for human health, domestic animals, plants and environment, or are harmful cultural products, they must be destroyed as prescribed in Article 33 of this Law.

6. For narcotics and objects of types banned from circulation, they shall be confiscated or destroyed as prescribed in Article 33 and Article 82 of this Law.

7. The person having impulsorily-seized material evidences, means of administrative violations must pay onle expenses for warehousing, yard-storage and preservation of material evidences and means of administrative violations and other expenses in duration of temporaily seizing material evidences, means of administrative violations as prescribed in clause 8, Article 125 of this Law.

Not collecting charges of warehousing, yard-storage and preservation expenses in duration of temporaily seizing material evidences, means of administrative violations if the owners of material evidences, means have no fault in administrative violations or when applying measure of confiscating material evidences, means.

The Government prescribed in details about charge levels of impulsorily-seizing material evidences, means specified in Article 125 of this Law.

Article 127. The body search according to administrative procedures

1. The body search according to administrative procedures may be implemented only when having grounds for presuming that the person hiding objects, documents, means used in order to commit acts of administrative violation in his/her body.

2. The persons specified in clause 1, Article 123 of this Law have right to decide the body search according to administrative procedures.

In case there are grounds in order to assume that if not immediately perform search, objects, documents, means used in order to commit administrative violations shall be dispersed, destroyed, beside of persons specified in clause 1, Article 123 of this Law, people’s police officers, members of the CoastGuard operation teams, Border Guard combatants, ranger officers, customs officials, market controllers, who are on official duty, may implement the body search according to administrative procedures and immediately report in writing to their heads who are one of persons specified in clause 1, Article 123 of this Law and must take responsibilities before law for the body search.

3. The body search must be decided in writing, unless it needs to immidiately search as prescribed ai paragraph 2, clause 2 of this Article.

4. Before implement the body search, the searching persons must notify of decision to the searched person. When implement the body search, men shall search men and women search women, and the search must be witnessed by persons of the same sex.

5. All cases of body search must be recorded in writing. The body search decisions and records must be handed over to the searched persons, one copy each.

Article 128. Searching transport means and objects according to administrative procedures

1. The search of transport means and objects according to administrative procedures shall be carried out only when there are grounds to believe that hidden in those transport means and/or objects are material evidences of administrative violations.

2. Persons defined in clause 1 Article 123 of this Law have rights to carry out the search of transport means and objects according to administrative procedures.

3. In case there are grounds in order to believe that if not immediately perform search, material evidences of administrative violations shall be dispersed, destroyed, beside of persons specified in clause 2 of this Article, people’s police officers, members of the CoastGuard operation teams, Border Guard combatants, ranger officers, tax officials, market controllers, or inspectors, who are on official duty, may search transport means and objects according to administrative procedures and immediately report to their heads and must take responsibilities for the search.

4. The search of transport means and objects must be decided in writing, unless cases specified in clause 3 of this Article.

The search of transport means and/or objects must be carried out in the presence of the transport means and/or object owners or the transport means operators and a witness; where the transport means and/or object owners or the transport means operators are absent, there must be two witnesses.

5. All cases of search of transport means and/or objects must be recorded in writing. The search decision and record must be handed to transport means and/or objects owners or the transport means operators, one copy each.

Article 129. Search of places where material evidences and/or means of administrative violations are hidden

1. The Search of places where material evidences and/or means of administrative violations are hidden shall be carried out only when there are grounds to believe that hidden material evidences and/or means of administrative violations.

2. The persons specified in clause 1, Article 123 of this Law have right to decide search of places where material evidences and/or means of administrative violations are hidden; where such places are dwelling places, proposing the district-level People’s Committee presidents for consideration and decision.

3. The search of places where material evidences and/or means of administrative violations are hidden must be conducted in the presence of the owners of such places or major members of their families and the witnesses. Where the place owners or major members of their families are absent while the search cannot be postponed, there must be the representative of the local administration and two witnesses.

4. The search of places where material evidences and/or means of administrative violations are hidden must not be conducted at night, except for emergency cases, or the search is being conducted and having not yet finished but the reasons therefor must be clearly stated in the records thereof.

5. All cases of search of places where material evidences and/or means of administrative violations are hidden must be affected under written decisions and must be recorded in writing. Such decisions and records on the search of places where material evidences and/or means of administrative violations are hidden must be handed to the place owners, one copy each.

Article 130. Management of foreigners who have violated Vietnamese laws during the time of carrying out the procedures for their expulsion

1. Management of foreigners who have violated Vietnamese laws during the time of carrying out the procedures for their expulsion shall be applied when there are grounds to believe that in not applying this measure, such persons may evade or obstruct the execution of decision on expulsion sanctioning or to prevent such persons continuing to commit acts of law violation.

2. The heads of Exit and Entry management agencies or the directors of principle-level Police departments where compiling dossier proposing expulsion shall issue decision on management of foreigners who have violated Vietnamese laws during the time of carrying out the procedures for their expulsion by the following measures:

a) To limit traveling of the persons subject to management;

b) To appoint dwelling places of the persons subject to management;

c) To temporarily seize passports or other personal papers replacing for passports.

3. The Government shall prescribe in details this clause.

Article 131. To assign family, organization to manage the person who is proposed for application of measure on administrative sanctioning during carrying out procedures for application of administrative handling measures

1. During carrying out procedures for consideration, decision on application of measures sending to the reformatories, sending to compulsory educational establishment, sending to compulsory detoxification establishments, the Presidents of the commune-level People’s Committee where compiling dossier shall decide on assigning family or social organization to manage persons who committed acts of law violation being subjects of application of these measures.

2. The violating subjects with stable residence shall be assigned to their family for management; if there is no stable residence, subjects shall be assigned to social organizations for management.

3. The time limit of management is counted from making dossier untill the competent persons take subjects to go for application of administrative handling measures according to decision of the Courts.

4. The decision on assigning family or social organizations for management must clearly state: date of issuing decision; full name, title of the deciding person; full name, date of birth and residence of person assigned for management or name and address of social organization assigned for management; full name, date of birth, and residence of person being subject to management; reason, time limit, responsibilities of the person subject to management, responsibilities of the person or organization of management and responsibilities of the commune-level People’s Committee where the subject residents; signature of person deciding on management assignment. This decision must be sent immediately to family or social organization where accept management, and the person being subject to management for implementation.

5. During management, the family or social organization which is assigned for management has the following responsibilities:

a) Not let the person being subject to management continuing law violations;

b) To ensure the presentation of the person being subject to management when having decsion on sending to reformatories, sending to compulsory educational establishments, or sending to compulsory detoxification establishments;

c) To timely report to the President of the commune-level People’s Committee issuing decision on management assignment in case the person being subject to management flees or commits acts of law violation;

6. During management, the person being subject to management has the following responsibilities:

a) To strictly execute provisions of law on temporary residence, absence-from-residence. When leaving local area of commune, ward, town in order to stay in other local area, must notify to family, social organization assigned for management about address, duration of temporary residence at there;

b) To timely being present at headquarter of commune-level People’s Committee as requested by the President of commune-level People’s Committee.

7. During management, the President of commune-level People’s Committee where managing subjects specified in clause 1 of this Article has the following responsibilities:

a) To notify to family, social organization being assigned for management and the person being subject to management about their rights and obligations during management;

b) To implement the measures to assist for family, social organization assigned for management in management, supervision of the person being subject to management at residence;

c) When being notified that the person being subject to management have fled from residence or have committed acts of law violation, the President of the commune-level People’s Committee must immediately notify to the district-level police agency in order to have timely handling measures as prescribed by law.

8. The Government shall prescribe in details this clause.

Article 132. Hunting for subjects who have had decisions on sending to reformatories, compulsory education establishments or compulsory detoxification establishments in case they escape

1. In case persons who have had decisions on sending to reformatories, compulsory education establishments or compulsory detoxification establishments escape before being sent to reformatories or establichments, the dictrict-level police agencies where compiling dossier shall issue decision on hunting subjects.

2. In case persons who have served decisions in reformatories, compulsory education establishments or compulsory detoxification establishments escape, the principals of reformatories, directors of compulsory education establishments or directors of compulsory detoxification establishments shall issue decision on hunting subjects. The police agencies shall coordinate with reformatories, compulsory education establishments or compulsory detoxification establishments in hunting such subjects in order to bring back reformatories or establishments.

3. For persons having decision on sending to reformatories or serving decision at reformatories specified in clause 1 of this Article, if after finding, such persons have been enough 18 years old, the principals of reformatories shall suggest the district-level People’s Court where having reformatories to consider, decide on application of measure sending to the compulsory education establishments if they are eligible to send to compulsory education establishments.

4. The period of fleeing shall not be counted in time limit of servicing decision on application of measures sending to reformatories, sending to compulsory education establishments or sending to compulsory detoxification establishments.