LAW ON STRENGTHENING THE NATIONAL SYSTEM OF VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS OF THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC

Law 27629

Provisions.



LAW ON STRENGTHENING THE NATIONAL SYSTEM OF VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS OF THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC

Chapter I

Special Tariff Scheme for Public Services

Article 1-Special Tariff Regime for Entities of the National Volunteer Fire System. Institute a special tariff regime for public services for the members of the National Volunteer Fire System under the conditions laid down in this law.

Article 2-Content. The special tariff regime for the member entities of the National Volunteer Fire System enshrines and defines a particular treatment to be applied to the associations which are the subject of this regime as users in respect of the provision of services. of the public services of which they are their beneficiaries or recipients.

This particular treatment obeys the specific nature of these legal persons, as defined in Law 25,054 and amending.

Article 3-Benefit. The beneficiary entities shall enjoy a special tariff treatment free of charge for the public utilities for the provision of electrical energy, natural gas provided by network, drinking water and collection of sewer drains, fixed telephony, mobile telephony in all its modalities and services of information and communications technologies, which are under national jurisdiction.

Article 4-Subjects and buildings achieved. The special tariff regime is applicable to voluntary fire associations and federations, the Council of Volunteer Fire Federations of the Argentine Republic and the Argentine Fire Foundation, as conformed entities of the National Volunteer Fire System established by law 25.054 and its modifications, and to buildings that function permanently as administrative offices, barracks and/or operational detachments.

Article 5-Quality of public services. Regulatory bodies and lending companies should ensure that the quality and conditions of the public service provided to the subjects of this scheme are equivalent to those received by the other users.

Article 6-Obligation of the prestators. The public service providers shall in this special scheme cover the entities and buildings referred to in Article 4 of this Law, with the sole accreditation of the legal status granted by competent authority.

Article 7-Regulatory Entes. Tariff category. The regulatory entities of the public services, or the agencies that in the future replace them, must incorporate the special tariff treatment established in this law, creating to this end the category " Member State of the National System Volunteer Fire. "

Article 8-New services. Any service that in the future is considered a public service must be adapted to the special tariff regime approved by this law and incorporate the category "Member State of the National Volunteer Fire System" in its tariff tables.

Article 9-Invitation. I invited the provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires to adhere and recognize the gratuitousness in the components of the billing of public services under their own jurisdiction.

Chapter II

Contingencies and Risks of the Volunteer Fire Service

Article 10.-Contingencies and Risks. The members of the active bodies and the authorities of the commissions of the entities of 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade and of the Argentine Fire Foundation of the National System of Volunteer Firefighters who suffer some of the contingencies provided for in Article 18 of Law 25,054 and its amendments shall be entitled to the cash and in-kind benefits provided for in this Chapter, without prejudice to the compensation provided to them under that rule.

Article 11.-Provision for temporary incapacity for work. From the day following the first invalidating event and for the duration of the Temporary Work Incapacity (ILT) period or up to 24 (24) months, the survivor shall receive a monthly payment of equal amounts to the monthly value of the base income.

In order to establish the value of the monthly base income, the salary scale will be taken as a parameter for the main official staff of the Federal Police Fire Superintendence or the amount of the equivalent hierarchical scale. Replace duly certified by the Ministry of Security of the Nation.

Article 12.-Prstations in kind. Survivors shall be entitled to the following benefits:

(a) Medical and pharmaceutical assistance;

b) Prothesis and orthopedics;

(c) Rehabilitation;

(d) Transfers;

e) Funeral service.

The benefits provided for in paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) shall be granted until their full cure or while the incapacitating symptoms persist.

Article 13.-Financing. The corresponding compensation and other monies arising from the fulfilment of this Chapter and from Article 18 of Law 25,054 and its amendments shall be paid to the accident and/or to his or her rights under the Ministry of Social Development of the Nation.

Chapter III

System of drawback of Value Added Tax

Article 14.-Reintegrated Value Tax Reintegrated Regime. Creation. Establish a system of refund of the value added tax contained in the amount of the operations carried out by the voluntary fire associations and associations, the Council of Federal Volunteer Fire Federations Argentina and the Argentine Fire Foundation, as conformed entities of the National Volunteer Fire System established by law 25.054 and amending, for the purchases and contracts that, for the performance of their function, perform in registered and registered trade as such to the Federal Administration of Public Revenue, autarquica in the field of the Ministry of Economy.

Article 15.-Goods and services included in the drawback scheme. The refund created and established in the preceding article includes the purchases of operating and carrosed vehicles, operating equipment, communication, parts of operating vehicles, construction materials, furniture, fuel and Lubricants, electronic and computer equipment and any other furniture of national manufacture, the locations and services of services and the work carried out through third parties on the real estate owned by the entities beneficiaries, understood as such constructions of any nature, facilities, repairs and maintenance and maintenance work on buildings.

In addition, the premiums for motor and life insurance are included, and work carried out through third parties for repairs, maintenance and maintenance of vehicles and other operating equipment.

Article 16.-Accreditation of reimbursement. The Federal Administration of Public Revenue will determine the form and conditions of the drawback scheme. The period of accreditation of the refund to the beneficiary entities shall not exceed 30 days.

Chapter IV

General Provisions. Financing.

Article 17.-Financing. The Executive Branch shall allocate the budget items necessary for the fulfilment of its objectives.

The expenses that the fulfillment of this law demands during the current year of its enactment will be taken care of with the resources of the national budget, to whose ends the chief of the Cabinet of Ministers will carry out the restructurings The budget is necessary. In subsequent budgets, the resources necessary to comply with the objectives of this law must be provided, through the inclusion of the respective program in the respective jurisdiction.

Article 18-Regulation. The Executive Branch shall regulate this law within a period of no more than ninety (90) days of publication in the Official Gazette.

Article 19.-Commune to the national executive branch.

GIVEN IN THE SESSION HALL OF THE ARGENTINE CONGRESS, IN BUENOS AIRES, TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY-ONE DAYS OF THE MONTH OF JUNE.

REGISTERED UNDER NO 27629

CLAUDIA LEDESMA ABDALLAH DE ZAMORA-SERGIO MASSA-Marcelo Jorge Fuentes-Eduardo Cergnul