Chapter V
FIRE PREVENTION AND FIGHTING MEANS
Article 39.- Fire prevention and fighting means
1. The fire prevention and fighting means include motorized means, equipment, machinery, tools, chemicals, support instruments used exclusively for fire prevention and fighting, human rescue, property rescue, which are specified in Appendix 5 to this Decree (not printed herein).
2. The fire-fighting motorized communication means of the fire prevention and fighting police force shall include fire-fighting vehicles, trains and airplanes.
3. The fire engines of the fire prevention and fighting police force include fire-fighting substance spraying vehicles, fire-fighting means and fire-fighter-carrying vehicles, water transportation vehicles, fire-fighting ladder vehicles and other motorized communication means used for the purposes of fire fighting and service of fire fighting.
4. Home-made or imported fire prevention and fighting means must satisfy the following conditions:
a) Ensuring the technical parameters according to designs in service of fire prevention and fighting;
b) Being compatible with Vietnamese standards or foreign standards, international standards permitted for application in Vietnam.
5. Brand-new home-made or imported fire prevention and fighting means must be expertised in term of quality, categories, models under the regulations of the Ministry of Public Security.
6. Transformed home-made fire prevention and fighting means must be permitted by competent fire prevention and fighting police offices and must be expertised in term of quality, categories and models under the regulations of the Ministry of Public Security.
7. The Ministry of Public Security shall define the norms and criteria of fire prevention and fighting means for the subjects prescribed in Clauses 1 and 2 of Article 50 of the Law on Fire Prevention and Fighting.
Article 40.- Equipment of means for fire prevention and fighting police force
The fire prevention and fighting police force shall be equipped with fire prevention and fighting means and other facilities with prescribed quantity, quality, completeness, modernity to satisfy the requirements of fire prevention and fighting and human rescue in all circumstances and in all domains.
The Ministry of Public Security shall specify the norms and criteria of equipment of fire prevention and fighting means for the fire prevention and fighting police force.
Article 41.- Management and use of fire prevention and fighting means
1. The fire prevention and fighting means must be managed, maintained and repaired strictly according to regulations so as to ensure fire-fighting readiness. For motorized fire-fighting means, apart from being used in fire fighting, drills, fire-fighting plan practices, they shall only be used in the following cases:
a) Participation in the work of ensuring political security;
b) Participation in the work of ensuring social order and safety;
c) Rescue of victims; urgent handling of accidents;
d) Combating natural calamities and overcoming the consequences thereof.
2. The Public Security Minister or authorized persons and the presidents of the provincial-level People’s Committees shall, within the scope of their respective management, be entitled to mobilize motorized fire-fighting means for the purposes prescribed in Clause 1 of this Article.
3. The director of the Fire Prevention and Fighting Police Department, the directors of the provincial-level Police Departments shall, within the scope of their respective management, be entitled to mobilize motorized fire-fighting means for the purposes prescribed at Points b, c and d, Clause 1 of this Article.
4. The heads of agencies or organizations shall, within the scope of their respective management, be entitled to mobilize motorized fire-fighting means for the purposes prescribed at Points c and d, Clause 1 of this Article.
5. The Ministry of Public Security shall stipulate the regime of managing, preserving, maintaining and using fire prevention and fighting means and guide the ministries, branches and localities in the implementation thereof.
Tìm kiếm
Nghị định 35/2003/NĐ-CP (Bản Word)