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Hebei Province Inland River Transportation Safety Management Regulations

Original Language Title: 河北省内河交通安全管理规定

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Water safety management provisions in the northern province of the River

(Adopted at the 96th ordinary meeting of the Government of the Northern Province on 9 November 2011, by Decree No. 12 of 21 November 2011 [2011] of the People's Government of Northern Province, which was issued effective 1 January 2012)

Chapter I General

Article I, in order to strengthen the safe management of the river, to preserve the transport order of the river and to secure the lives and property of the people, and to develop this provision in line with the provisions of the Regulations on the Safety of Road Traffic in the People's Republic of China and the relevant laws, regulations and regulations.

Article 2 uses this provision for navigation, parking and operation and activities related to the safety of the river.

Article 3

More than the people at the district level with the mandate for the safe management of the river should have a body responsible for local maritime management (hereinafter referred to as the local maritime administration), with specific implementation of the management of protected transport safety.

Sectors responsible for tourism, water, fisheries, sports, urban construction (planning), land resources and meteorology, should be managed in accordance with their respective responsibilities.

The Government of the commune (commune) should perform the corresponding duties in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Regulations on the Safety of Road Traffic in the People's Republic of China.

Article IV. Governments of more people at the district level should strengthen their leadership in the management of intra River traffic safety, rationalize the water functional areas of the Authority, and plan for the development of the Indic Roads Facility and the management of water and meteorological disasters, early warning facilities, and guarantee the normal conduct of the management of safe water monitoring in the river.

More than the people at the district level should improve the coordination mechanism on the safety of the river to address the major issues in the management of the intra River traffic, and urge the relevant units to fulfil their responsibilities for the safe management of the river.

Article 5

Chapter II

Article 6.

Ship vessels with less than five metres should apply for registration to local maritime management authorities in the location (communes, areas) where no local maritime administration is established, and registration should be made available to local maritime management authorities in the area where:

(i) A registration application;

(ii) A ship invoice or a contract for the sale of ships or other documents sufficient to substantiate their ownership;

(iii) The applicant's effective identity certificate.

Article 7. The local maritime administration shall conduct a review of the ship registration application, verify the authentic validity of submissions, issue certificates of title to shipowners within 7 days, and provide matters in accordance with the law in the ship registry.

Ships with less than five metres should contain the following matters in the ship registry:

(i) The name of the vessel;

(ii) Ports and registration numbers;

(iii) The owner of the ship is a natural person, registering its name, place, valid identity documents numbers, and the owner of the ship is a legal person, registering its name and address;

(iv) Modalities and dates of ownership of ships;

(v) The construction of a man-made natural person by a ship, the registration of its name, place of residence, valid identity documents number, and the registration of its name and address;

(vi) Ship material, major technical data on vessels.

Article 8. Ships, buoy facilities should be inspected by a ship inspection body accredited by the Maritime Authority and have qualified inspection certificates.

The technical rules for the testing of vessels, which are smaller than five metres, are developed by the provincial transport authorities.

Article 9. The vessel shall apply to the local maritime administration in the port of the ship for a certificate of nationality.

Article 10. Shipmarks should be clear, complete and without intentional intrusion and stigmatization.

The garage, the creation of any brand that is not relevant to the ship's mark, the mark shall not affect the identification and safety of ships.

Shipowners of less than five metres should be marked at the ship's place.

Article 11. Ships should be equipped with life-saving equipment as required. The opening of a fast boat, the cruiser, should ensure that the ship's crew will be able to open the vessel until they are all wearing their life.

Article 12 Ship visas are carried out by the local maritime administration in the district (market, area).

The short-term fixed-term visa period is authorized and published by the local maritime administration in the area under the administrative circumstances, up to 30 days.

Agricultural production vessels (other than fishing boats), living self-ustainable vessels may not be subject to a ship visa.

Article 13. All ship and buoy facilities, operators assume responsibility for safe production for all or operated vessels, establish safe production responsibilities and security emergency relief advances, ensure the necessary safety inputs and conduct safety training for their affiliated managers, ship operators and other practitioners.

Article 14.

Chapter III

Article 15. The management of the route shall, in accordance with the approach to the management of navigation in the northern province of the River, strengthen the maintenance and management of the river and maintain safe navigation.

Article 16 Governments of more people at the district level should strengthen the construction and management of transit security facilities, maintain a terminal, ship and connect roads and other security facilities.

Article 17: The establishment of a vessel buoy, buoy, cable, etc. on the river's surface waters or on the shoreline shall be governed by the law and in accordance with the following conditions:

(i) The need to delineate waters and the grounds necessary;

(ii) In line with water traffic safety and pollution prevention requirements, and security and pollution prevention measures have been developed;

(iii) To meet protection requirements for military or vital civilian objectives in the vicinity.

Large mass events, sports competitions, etc., should be conducted in accordance with the law and in accordance with the following conditions:

(i) The need to delineate waters and the grounds necessary;

(ii) Programmes for which activities have been developed, including time, location and scope, arrangements for progress;

(iii) In line with water traffic safety and pollution prevention requirements and safety and protection measures have been developed.

Article 19, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Regulations on the Safety of Transport in the Hanoi River People's Republic of China, conducts operations or activities that may affect the safety of ships in the area of navigation or operate, and, after the completion of the operation or activity, the organizers of construction, construction units or activities shall clean and restore the status quo in a timely manner.

Article 20 allows local maritime management authorities to delineate the scope of activities in waters of the cruise ship, the buoyer (TBA) according to the requirements of the water functional area.

Cyclones, swing boats (Times) shall operate within the territorial maritime management area.

Article 21

(i) Removal of ships without night condition;

(ii) The non-exclusive ship engaged in passenger activities;

(iii) Hurdus switched to the risk of such dangerous operations at all speeds or at large;

(iv) Intermit, competing and other activities that endanger the safety of navigation.

Article 22 prohibits aquaculture or permanent fixed facility in the following regions:

(i) Customary routes;

(ii) The ship's fixed route;

(iii) The area of ship navigation and parking for water-based tourism.

The fishing vessel shall operate in the waters of the ship without prejudice to the safety of ship navigation.

Article 23 prohibits the release of oil from ship to navigation waters, the living sewerage and solid wastes.

Ships carrying dangerous goods are prohibited from entering the water-safety area.

Article 24 provides for regular ship safety inspections by local maritime administrations against shipping vessels and for inspections of non-shipment vessels.

In carrying out the ship safety inspection, the letter of notice of the ship safety inspector should be communicated to the people of all shipowners, operators and related communes (communes).

The local maritime administration that conducts inspections should inform the other maritime administrations in a timely manner of the identified ship defects.

The ship owner, the operator, should be required to reclassify the ship defect as required by the vessel's safety inspection letter.

Article 25 Local maritime administrations should be informed in a timely manner of their certification bodies by deducting and distributing the vessel's certificate.

Chapter IV Emergency response and assistance

Article 26, in the event of emergencies such as jeopardy, ships should be subject to the command of local maritime administrations and guerrilla command bodies to ensure the completion of tasks such as vegetation and the safety of ships and slacks.

Article 27, which could lead to a dramatic change in water in river waters such as hydrates, lakes, sediments, should issue relevant early warning information on the water situation in a timely manner and inform the relevant local maritime administrations.

Article twenty-eighth meteorological services should publish in a timely manner poor weather forecasting information such as the great wind and heavy rainfall of river waters in the current administration area.

Ge-disaster observation bodies should publish in a timely manner information on geological disasters such as muds and slides in river waters in the current administration area.

Article 29, after having received information on early warning referred to in article 27 and article 28, should be analysed in a timely manner, requiring a warning of navigation and should be issued in a timely manner.

Ships, buoy facilities should pay attention to the above-mentioned information and take effective preventive measures.

Article 33 of the commune government is specifically responsible for searching and rescue efforts for hazardous vessels and buoyed facilities in the current administration area, and the local people's Government should reach on the ground immediately after a risk or accident alert.

The Land-level People's Government has developed and published the In-house Search and Rescue Emergency Response Profiles, which should be reported to the Government of the High-level People and local maritime management authorities.

The city of the shores of the river is managed by the commune government in the area responsible for searching and rescue of vessels and buoy facilities in this administrative area.

Article 33

(i) The establishment of the Neo River Professional Search and Rescue Organization with the corresponding search and rescue of vessels, facilities, equipment and the enhancement of search and rescue capacities;

(ii) To encourage, support the ship, all buoy facilities, the operators to establish the Instructional Interstorage Organization, provide the necessary material support and conduct training in search and rescue skills;

(iii) To reward individuals and organizations participating in effective search and rescue operations.

Chapter V Legal responsibility

In violation of this provision by the Government of the above-mentioned people at the district level and the staff of its competent authorities, maritime administrations or related units, one of the following acts has been taken in accordance with the law by the competent and other direct responsible persons directly responsible; causing major internal river traffic accidents, constituting a crime, and bringing criminal liability under the law:

(i) The registration and inspection of vessels as required;

(ii) Non-implementation of inspection by law;

(iii) Failure to perform the duties of relief as provided;

(iv) Other omissions, provocative fraud and abuse of authority.

In violation of article 7 of the present article, vessels with less than five metres of the vessel conceal the true situation, to the detriment of the voucher in the processing of the registration proceedings, to be warned by the local maritime administration and to fine up to 100 million yen.

In violation of this provision, there are one of the following cases in which the responsibilities of the local maritime administration are correct and a fine of up to two hundred thousand dollars for the owner or operator of the ship:

(i) The intentional intrusion, humiliation of ship markers or the imposition of brands that are not relevant to the ship mark, affecting the identification and safety of ships;

(ii) The cruise ship, the buoyer (Time) goes beyond the delimitation of waters;

(iii) The opening of a fast-track vessel and the number of persons on board the cruise ship are not required to wear the saving of life;

(iv) Removal of ships without night condition;

(v) The use of non-significant vessels to carry out delivery activities.

In violation of this provision, a shipman has one of the following cases, with a fine of more than two thousand dollars in the local maritime administration:

(i) Drivers, manipulate ships after drinks or operate in buoy facilities;

(ii) Removal by a fast-tracker or by the helm to a dangerous operation;

(iii) Intermit, competing and other activities that endanger the safety of navigation.

Annex VI

Article 36

(i) Customary route means the waters of the ship's frequent (including seasonal).

(ii) The ship's fixed route, which refers to the fixed route chosen by the passenger (transport) vessel under the relevant provisions.

(iii) Hearing boats, which are more than 18 km of the design of the geostationary water.

(iv) Travellers are non-mocile vessels for water cruises (contained vessels), rotary crafts, beds, water smoto, water airstrips, electric bottles, cranes, trameters, etc.).

Article 37 Registration, inspection, examination, examination of boarders of fishing vessels and safety management are vested in the administrative authorities of the fisheries at the district level.

Article 38 of this provision is implemented effective 1 January 2012.