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Original Language Title: 河北省森林防火规定

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Forest fire protection provisions in Northern Province

(Adopted at the 96th ordinary meeting of the Government of the Northern Province on 9 November 2011 by Decree No. 14 of 21 November 2011 [2011] of the People's Government of the Northern Province of the River (effective 1 January 2012)

Chapter I General

Article 1 protects the resources of forests in order to guarantee the security of the people's life and property, in accordance with the relevant laws, regulations, such as the People's Republic of China Forest Act, the State Department's Forest Fire Safety Regulations, and in the light of the actual provisions of this province.

Article 2 applies to the prevention and recovery of forest fires in the territorial administration.

The law, legislation and regulations provide otherwise, from their provisions.

Article 3. Governments of all levels are responsible for forest fire prevention in the present administration area, with executive heads responsible, and the principal heads of government are the first responsible and the heads of the subsidiaries are responsible for organizing, coordinating and guiding forest fire protection efforts in the present administrative region.

The forest fire control command institutions at the district level should establish a dedicated chain of command with the relevant authorities, focusing on the forest fire protection offices in the area of fire risk, with dedicated staff. The Ministry of the People's Government's forest fire command body should strengthen the functions of early warning monitoring, fire command, aviation escort forests, and improve the forest fire management system.

The forest authorities at the district level are responsible for the monitoring and management of forest fires in the current administrative region and assume the day-to-day work of the forest fire command body of the Government.

Article IV. Governments of the above-mentioned population should incorporate forest fire protection infrastructure in national economic and social development planning, integrate forest fire financing into the current financial budget, and ensure forest fire financing in the light of the actual needs of forest fire.

Article 5 forest fire prevention is of an emergency risk response, and all levels of people's governments should strengthen the protection of forest fire-stricken and forest fire-related staff by implementing the relevant treatment in high-risk industries.

Article 6. Governments at all levels encourage and support the conversion, degradation of biomass in the forest area through effective means.

Article 7. The Government of the people at the district level should provide recognition and incentives to the units and individuals that have made significant achievements in forest fire prevention efforts, and the provision of incentives is borne by the current level of finance.

In accordance with the relevant provisions, the forest fire command institutions of the above-mentioned people's Government can provide recognition and incentives to units and individuals that have been highlighted in the major and extraordinary forest fires.

Chapter II Prevention of forest fires

Article 8. The Government of the people at the district level may specify, on the basis of actual circumstances, the forest fires, the delimitation of the forest fire area and the publication of the society.

In the forest fire area, the following outer space is prohibited:

(i) Smoking, inclination;

(ii) Inflation of cigarbs, intrusive fires and sing lights;

(iii) Sugar fire, wild cookers;

(iv) Intrusive, burned, burned and burned garbage;

(v) Other unauthorized fires.

Article 9. Governments of more than communes should delineate forest fire liability areas, identify forest fire liability units, establish the forest fire liability regime and the archaeological system, and develop a forest fire liability accountability approach.

The responsibilities for forest fire management should be included in the annual objective management evaluation of the people at all levels.

Article 10 Governments of the people at the district level should build forest fire protection infrastructure, such as fire blocks, fire protection roads, emergency communications, video surveillance and the storage of fires, reserve the necessary fire material and improve the level of forest fire defence and the security of equipment, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State and the province.

Article 11. Governments of the population at the district level should strengthen the building of the foresters, with the standard of not less than one guarantor in 60 hectares, and the implementation of the treatment of the foresters' wages, subsidies, etc.

The forest fire protection responsibilities of forest mediators are mainly:

(i) Promote forest fire protection laws, regulations, regulations and fire defence knowledge and conduct fire prevention education for persons entering the forest fire area;

(ii) Tourmount fires, manage wild fires, stop wild criminal acts and control fires into fire-fighting zones;

(iii) Timely reporting fire and active involvement in the fight against forest fires;

(iv) Assist the relevant sectors in investigating forest fire cases.

Article 12. The Government of the people at the district level should establish a corresponding scale of forest firefighting professionals, with dedicated managers, to address facilities, such as camps, training sites, vehicles, firefighting machines, equipment-building funds, and incorporate the wages, social insurance, welfare and treatment of forest firefighters into the same fiscal budget. Training, mobilization and management of the forest fire brigades are vested in the same-level people's forest fire control command.

Emphasis should be given to the strengthening of the forest firefighting profession, the establishment of a forest fire brigade at the level of fire-risk zones that is not less than 100 people, the establishment of a forest fire brigade in the secondary fire-affected areas, and the establishment of a forest fire brigade of less than thirty people in three fire-affected areas.

Enterprises such as national forest sites, natural protected areas, forest parks, landscapes, mined sites, etc. should be established, and forest firefighting units that are adapted to fire protection missions.

The Government of the people at the district level should coordinate the People's Liberation Army, the VAF, the militia reserve force, establish the forest fire response, and improve military communications coordination and emergency response mechanisms.

Article 14. Various types of forest firefighters at all levels should regularly organize forest fire defence knowledge training, strengthen fire-fighting exercises and enhance fire resilience.

Article 15. During the forest fire, high-wart weather conditions, such as temperature, drought and wind, should delineate forest high-ware areas, stipulating that the forest fires are high, issuing government decisions, orders, implementing mountain management measures to prohibit all wild fires.

Article 16 Governments of more people at the district level should organize forest fire defence public awareness campaigns in relevant sectors such as forestry, agriculture, education, tourism, radio and television, and promote forest fire prevention and awareness-raising for all.

Schools and relevant vocational training institutions in the forest area should strengthen the education and training of forest fire defence knowledge.

Article 17: Meteorological authorities shall provide forest fire weather forecasting services without compensation. The media, such as radio, television, newspapers and the Internet, should be broadcast free of charge or published in forest fire weather forecasts.

Radio management has dedicated communications equipment for forest fire prevention and should be exempted from the frequency of collection and detection fees.

The relevant sectors, such as transport, have approved the implementation of the forest fire prevention and the fight against ambulances, free of access, bridge fees.

Article 18 railways, roads, oil gas pipelines, and forest fire protection units, such as electricity, telecommunications routes, should open fire-free belts in forest fires, cleaning off the perimeter of fuel, and organizers' escorts to prevent forest fires.

Railways, road transport management should promote forest fire safety for operators and passengers entering the forest area.

Article 19 operates mine enterprises under the law in forest areas where there are more than two dominances of forest depression, the establishment of a tourist area or new construction areas, or the establishment of a fire protection block or the establishment of a forest fire protection facility, such as biofire belts, the establishment of a forest fire awareness mark, and synchronized planning, synchronization design, construction, and synthesimulation.

The forest fire protection facility established under the preceding paragraph shall be reported to the forest authorities of the Government of the Territory at the district level, which should be certified after the completion of the project, receive no qualifications and shall be used.

The construction of works in forest areas under the sub-green of forest depression and the construction of units should take the initiative of forest fire prevention measures and receive oversight inspections by the forest fire-stress agencies.

Article 20, the forest fire control command body of the Government of the veterans at the district level should organize forest fire prevention inspections in the relevant sectors, with a focus on inspection of forest fire protection measures and concealment. The forest fires identified in the inspection should be removed by the relevant units and individuals, as required, and by the forest authorities at the district level to send a letter of credit to the relevant units and individuals for the forest fire to the relevant units and individuals for the period of time.

Article 21, during the period of forest fire, the forest fire prevention checkpoint, which was approved by the Government of the province or its mandated departments, conducted a forest fire inspection of vehicles and personnel entering the forest fire area.

In accordance with actual needs, the communes can set up temporary forest fire protection checkpoints in forest firefields and villages, which are cancelled after the end of the forest fire.

No cost shall be charged at the forest fire checkpoint.

The Government of the People's Republic (communes) should implement the responsibility for forest fire prevention, organize the gateway of personnel, establish a forest fire and a semi-specialist, carry out forest fire concealments and recover forest fires in a timely manner.

Article 23 encourages the Village National Commission to establish a forest fire protection organization with temporary escorts, establish a forest fire mass and prepare forest fire prevention.

Article 24, All forest, forest wood, forest landowners and operators should establish forest fire warning signals at the main gates, key ministries, promote forest fire safety among external personnel, provide escorts, carry out fire protection escorts, remove off-the-board fuel, build forest fire protection infrastructure and equipping the necessary equipment for forest fires.

Article 25 In the period of forest fire, the guardian of a non-civil act capacity and a civil activist should be introduced, the responsibility for forest fire protection should be strengthened, the education and management of protected forests by guardians, and the prevention of acts such as cholera.

Chapter III

Anyone found that forest fires should be reported immediately. Any unit, individual, shall not be stopped by providing the police without compensation. It is clear that the fire is false.

Article 27 of the Government of the Local People's Forest Fire Command has received satellite monitoring fire hotspots, aviation observation fires or other fire reports, and should be sent promptly to field verification and on a case-by-step basis, as required. Reports, false reports or delays cannot be concealed.

Twenty-eight forest fires have occurred, and the forest fire command institutions of the commune government in the area should immediately report on the territorial Government's forest fire control authority. There is a need to report on the provincial people's government and national forest fire control command institutions, which are reported by the provincial Government's forest fire control command body:

(i) Forest fires affected by land area of more than one hectares;

(ii) A forest fire that has not been extinguished for 8 hours or that has not been lost on that date;

(iii) Forest fires in national forest sites, natural protected areas, wind-potential areas and webcasting forests;

(iv) A forest fire that threatens the safety of residential or important facilities;

(v) Forest fires causing more than one person to death or injury to more than two persons;

(vi) Higher forest fires at the municipal administration in the established area;

(vii) Forest fires with neighbouring provinces, self-government zones, neighbouring municipalities (communes);

(viii) Forest fires requiring coordinated support from provinces.

Article 29, where forest fire occurs, the communes (communes) should organize rescues and immediately report on the forest fire-related command institutions at the district level; and the forest fire control command institutions at the district level should trigger the forest fire disposal emergency response.

Following forest fires, the Government of the people at the district level in which the fire occurred should establish the Forest Fire Storage front-line Command, which is primarily responsible for the same or sub-sistance as the leader of the front-line command, responsible for the organization, direction, coordination, decision-making of the forest fire rescue. The units and personnel involved in the fire should be subject to the unity of movement and command of the former line command.

The main responsibilities of the front-line command are:

(i) Convene expert experts to conduct scientific analysis and assessment of firefields, develop on-site fire programmes and organize implementation;

(ii) To keep the fires changing and development trends and to adjust and mobilize the fires in a timely manner and to minimize casualties and to combat fire as soon as possible;

(iii) Timely reporting on fire extortion and ensuring that firefields are accessible to the same-level and upper-level people's forest fire command institutions;

(iv) The timely mobilization of fire relief human, material and the rational redeployment of resources to guarantee the need for fire;

(v) Work on safety in firefield logistics, medical assistance and advocacy coverage.

Article 31: Combating forest fires should be dominated by the forest firefighting profession, complemented by the forest firefighting mass, and fully operationalize the role of the People's Liberation Army, the VAF, the militia reserve force and the forest fire response team.

Article 32, as a result of the need to combat forest fires, the forest fire command institutions of the Government of more than veterans at the district level may decide on urgent measures such as segregation belts, removal of barriers, emergency access to water, and transport control by the Ministry.

Vehicles carrying out forest fires embolden mission-saving tasks are not restricted in order to ensure safety without movement, route, direction and command signals. Transport management command officers should ensure prompt movement of vehicles.

When forest fire extinguished, the fire rescue team should conduct a thorough clearance of the fire site, and the firefield was transferred to the local people's Government or responsible units according to the prescribed procedures. The fire was generally not less than 24 hours. Those who have been identified by the local people's Government or by the forest fire control command can withdraw from the watchdog.

Chapter IV Post-disaster disposal

Following the destruction of forest fires, the forest management authorities of more than veterans at the district level should conduct investigations, statistics and assessments of the time, location, cause, the perpetrator, the area of fire, the area of the affected forests and the accumulation, loss of life, fire expenses and other economic losses in a timely manner. The results of the survey report on the Government of the people at this level, the relevant units and the forest authorities at the grass-roots level, and makes recommendations to address them.

Surveys on forest fires are carried out according to the following division of labour:

(i) General forest fires are organized by district-level forest authorities responsible for conducting investigations;

(ii) Large forest fires are organized by the communal government forestry authorities in the area;

(iii) More significant forest fires are organized by the Ministry's Government's forestry authorities;

(iv) The occurrence of forest fires across the administrative area is organized by the forest authorities of the common top-level people's government, which conduct cross-provincial forest fires are investigated by the provincial government forestry authorities or their authorized sectors, units.

Article XV gives medical care and pensions to persons who have suffered injury, maimed or died as a result of the fire.

Article XVI Forest fire information is published by the forest fire command agency or by forestry authorities at the district level. No other units and individuals shall be issued without the approval of the forest fire control command or forestry authorities of the Government of the people at the district level.

Chapter V Legal responsibility

In violation of this provision, there is one of the following acts by the Government of the people at all levels, the authorities of forests at the district level, or other relevant departments and their staff, which are converted by their superior executive organs or by the supervisory authority; in serious circumstances, the legal disposition of the direct responsible and other direct responsibilities; and the criminal liability of the law, which constitutes an offence:

(i) Non-implementation of the forest fire liability regime as prescribed;

(ii) The construction of forest fire protection infrastructure as required;

(iii) The establishment of a pool of forest firefighters, which is not provided for by law;

(iv) Non-providing and receiving forest fire facilities for construction projects, as prescribed;

(v) The discovery of a letter of credit for forest fire extortion has not been proposed for reorientation or for a letter of credit for major fires in a timely manner;

(vi) To conceal reports, false reports or delays in reporting forest fires;

(vii) The occurrence of fires without the timely organization of the recovery of fires;

(viii) The fire refuelling caused by the failure to carry out fire watchdog duties as prescribed;

(ix) Other acts of negligence, abuse of authority, favouring private fraud.

Article 338, in violation of article 15 of this provision, is sanctioned by the authorities of the Government of Forestry at the district level, in accordance with the National Authority's Forest fire Prevention Regulations; rejects the implementation of the decisions, orders issued by the Government of the People, which are sanctioned by the public security authorities at the district level, in accordance with article 50 of the Law on the Safety and Management of the People's Republic of China, without the establishment of the forest public safety authority, which is sanctioned by local public security authorities.

In violation of article 19, paragraphs 1, 2 and 2, of this provision, the period of time being converted by the forest authorities of the Government of more than the veterans at the district level; the impossibility of the delay, with a fine of more than one thousand dollars.

Article 40, in violation of this provision, creates forest fires, constituting offences and is criminally criminalized by law; it is not yet a crime and, in addition to legal responsibility under the relevant provisions of the National Authority's Forest fire Prevention Regulations, the forest authorities of more than quintiles may be responsible for the fire-related units or individuals to fill the damage of more than three times the trees.

Annex VI

Article 40 The Northern Province People's Government announced the application of the Northern Province of the River on 1 July 1996 was repealed.