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Law No. 116 Of 5 June 1998 Concerning The Organization And Functioning Of The Romanian Gendarmerie

Original Language Title:  LEGE nr. 116 din 5 iunie 1998 privind organizarea şi funcţionarea Jandarmeriei Române

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LEGE no. 116 116 of 5 June 1998 on organization and functioning of the Romanian Gendarmerie
ISSUER PARLIAMENT
Published in OFFICIAL MONITOR no. 224 224 of 18 June 1998



The Romanian Parliament adopts this law + Chapter 1 General provisions + Article 1 The Romanian Gendarmerie is the specialized military institution of the component state of the Ministry of Interior, which exercises, according to the law its duties on ensuring the security and defense of some objectives, assets and values of special importance, maintaining and restoring public order, carrying out missions to prevent and combat crimes and other violations of the legal norms in force, to prevent and neutralize terrorist acts and to diversify . + Article 2 The Romanian Gendarmerie operates exclusively on the basis and in the execution of the law. + Article 3 In carrying out its duties, according to the law, the Romanian Gendarmerie cooperates with the Romanian Police, with the other units of the Ministry of Interior and other structures of the national defense system, which have powers in the field, and collaborate with central and local public administration organizations, institutions and authorities. + Chapter 2 Organization and leadership of the Romanian Gendarmerie + Article 4 (1) The Romanian Gendarmerie is organized on military principles, throughout the country, and has the structure: a) National Gendarmerie Command; b) territorial gendarme commands: -county gendarmes ' commands and the Gendarme Command of Bucharest; -battalions of gendarmes; -detachments, companies, wards, platoons, guards, posts and groups of gendarmes; c) mobile brigade of gendarmes; d) training centres; e) special units of gendarmes; f) educational institutions; g) the basis for logistics; h) repair base. (2) The organization of the Romanian Gendarmerie, provided in par. (1), is carried out on the current structures of the gendarmes troops. (3) By order of the Minister of Interior, when the operative situation requires it, subunits of gendarmes may be established in rural areas, within the limits of the numbers and approved funds. + Article 5 The National Command of the Gendarmerie is the central command unit of the Romanian Gendarmerie, which leads the activity of all subordinate structures. + Article 6 (1) The National Command of the Gendarmerie is led by a gendarme officer, as commander of the Romanian Gendarmerie, appointed to this position by the Minister of Interior, with the opinion of the Supreme Council of Defense of the Country. (2) The commander of the Romanian Gendarmerie is helped, in the performance of his duties, by deputies appointed to the position, on his proposal, by the Secretary of State of the Ministry of Interior, who coordinates the activity of the Romanian Gendarmerie. In the exercise of legal duties, the commander of the Romanian Gendarmerie issues mandatory orders and provisions for subordinate personnel. (3) The Romanian Gendarmerie is represented, in relations with the central and local public administration authorities and with similar institutions in other states, by the commander or by his powers. + Article 7 (1) The National Gendarmerie Command has in its composition the major state, directions, wards, special units, services and offices. (2) The Regulation on the organization and functioning of the National Gendarmerie Command is approved by the Minister of the Interior. + Article 8 The territorial gendarme command is a great unit for the organization, management and coordination of specific missions to carry out the duties of the gendarmerie in an area of responsibility corresponding to the territory of several counties and of the city of Bucharest, having in composing commansions of county gendarmes and the city of Bucharest, battalions of gendarmes, detachments, companies, wards, platoons, guards, posts, groups of gendarmes, subunits of specialists and of logistics. (2) The territorial gendarme commandments are usually constituted on the structures of the gendarmes brigades. (3) The commander of the territorial gendarme command is an officer of gendarmes. + Article 9 (1) The county Gendarme Command and the Gendarme Command of the Municipality of Bucharest are units for the organization, management and execution of specific missions for the performance of the duties of the gendarmerie in an area of responsibility corresponding to the territory of a county and, respectively, of Bucharest. They have in composing battalions of gendarmes, detachments, companies, wards, platoons, guards, posts, mobile security subunits. (2) The county gendarmes command and the Gendarme Command of the city of Bucharest are usually constituted on the structure of the current battalions or detachments of gendarmes. (3) The commander of the county gendarmes command and that of the Gendarme Command of Bucharest municipality are gendarmes officers. + Article 10 (1) The mobile gendarme brigade is a large unit directly subordinated to the National Gendarmerie Command, intended for execution, independently or in cooperation with the other units of the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of National Defence and with other components of the national defence system, of missions to carry out specific tasks throughout the national territory. It has in composing battalions, detachments of gendarmes and subunits of specialists. (2) The commander of the mobile brigade of gendarmes is an officer of gendarmes. + Article 11 (1) The establishment of new territorial commands and brigades of gendarmes is approved by the Supreme Council of Defense of the Country. (2) By order of the Minister of Interior, at the proposal of the commander of the Romanian Gendarmerie, units and subunits of gendarmes may be set up, in relation to the operative needs, within the limits of the numbers and approved funds. + Article 12 (1) The gendarme battalion is a unit intended for the execution of missions, as a rule in an area of responsibility of a gendarme command. It has in composing detachments, companies, wards, platoons, guards, posts, groups and logistics subunits. (2) The gendarme battalion is led by a commander, gendarmes officer. + Article 13 The detachment, the company, the section, the platoon, the guard, the post and the gendarme group are subunits organized as military structures for training and for carrying out specific missions, independently or under the direct command of the gendarmes, training centers, special units and gendarmes battalions. + Article 14 (1) The training center is a unit intended to train and improve the training of the personnel necessary to complete the staff of the gendarme units and operate according to the organization state approved by the interior minister. (2) The training center is led by a commander, gendarmes officer. (3) The training and refresher training center of the specialized personnel in the gendarmerie is constituted on the current structure of the broadcasting regiment. + Article 15 (1) The special unit of gendarmes is intended for the execution of security and defense missions of objectives of special importance, security and transport of special goods and values. (2) The special unit is headed by a commander, gendarmes officer. + Article 16 (1) The educational institutions are military units intended for the formation, improvement of the training and specialization of the gendarmerie staff and operate according to the organization states approved by the interior minister. (2) The improvement of the training of the staff in the gendarmerie is carried out in profile centers and in application schools. + Article 17 (1) The basis for logistics is intended to ensure the supply, storage, preservation and distribution of material means necessary for the Romanian Gendarmerie. (2) At the level of each basic structure in the composition of the Romanian Gendarmerie units and logistics subunits are established. + Article 18 The repair base is intended to ensure the repair of motor vehicles, machinery, armaments and specific technique from the gendarmerie endowment. + Article 19 At the level of the National Command of the Gendarmerie, the territorial, county and Gendarme Command of Bucharest, the mobile brigades of gendarmes and educational institutions are organized, depending on the needs, administrative, technical, financial and medical compartments, which respond to all specific activity, necessary to carry out the missions and training of staff. + Article 20 The major units, units and subunits of gendarmes, at the behest of the Minister of Interior, can act in any area of the country other than that of permanent responsibility. + Chapter 3 Tasks of the Romanian Gendarmerie + Article 21 (1) The Romanian Gendarmerie has the following tasks: a) ensure the security of objectives, goods and values of special importance for the defense of the country, for the activity of the state, for economy, science, culture and art, of the premises of diplomatic missions or of agencies and representatives economic, as well as the headquarters of international bodies, which carry out activities on the territory of Romania, established by Government decision; b) ensure the security of transport of important values, consisting of amounts of money, credits, cheques or other documents of value, precious metals and stones, scientific, technical, cultural and art values, as well as the transport of weapons ammunition, explosive materials, narcotics, toxic or radioactive substances or other hazardous substances or substances; c) ensure, together with other public authorities, the order on the occasion of meetings and demonstrations; d) ensure, together with the police and other structures of the Ministry of Interior, the restoration of public order in cases of serious disorder of it; e) performs, together with the police, missions to maintain public order, prevent and combat crimes and other violations of the legal norms in force; f) execute, together with the police, accompanying the specialized trains, taking the security and order measures in the triages and in the railway stations; g) meets, together with the other institutions of the state empowered by law, missions to ensure the protection of high Romanian and foreign dignitaries during their presence in Romania, as well as missions to guard working premises and residences h) meets, together with the other specialized state institutions, missions to prevent, neutralize and liquidate terrorist and diversionary acts on the territory of Romania; i) participate in the execution of the guard and the protection of the transport of secret correspondence throughout Romania; j) execute measures to ensure public order during actions to neutralize suspicious objects, which may present public danger; k) meets, together with the police, firefighters and in cooperation with units of the Ministry of National Defence, civil protection and other formations provided by law, rescue and evacuation activities of persons and goods endangered by fires, explosions, damage, accidents, epidemics, calamities and catastrophes, as well as to limit and remove the consequences caused by such events; l) execute, together with the police and the other public institutions empowered by law, missions to track and catch the escapees, defectors and other persons about whom there are data and thorough indications that they intend to commit or have committed crimes or evading the measure of preventive arrest or execution of custodial sentences; m) participate, at the request of the President of Romania and with the approval of the Romanian Parliament, outside the national territory, with actual and technical equipment, at the establishment of international forces intended to carry out training missions, assistance and cooperation in the field of public order and for humanitarian actions; during the performance of these missions, the participating gendarmes have the regime of the troops of the Ministry of National Defence, who carry out missions abroad; n) execute any other contributions that are established by law. (2) At the request of natural or legal persons, in situations that do not suffer postponement, the commander of the Romanian Gendarmerie may approve the temporary provision of the security of certain objectives, goods, values and special transports. (3) In carrying out the duties provided in par. (1), the gendarmes use the armaments and technical means provided, according to the legal provisions. + Article 22 During the state of emergency or curfew, the Romanian Gendarmerie, while carrying out the permanent missions, participates in the actions for the discovery, capture or liquidation, of the research and diversion groups, of the terrorist elements, as well as to support the evacuation of objectives of special importance and of the population. + Article 23 At mobilization and in time of war, the Romanian Gendarmerie, concurrently with the performance of the duties provided in art. 21 and 22, as a component of the armed forces, shall also perform the following tasks: a) execute, together with other forces, security and defense of objectives that are not provided with military guard in peacetime; b) participate in the discovery, capture or neutralization of the enemy parachuted or landed on the territory of the country, in the districts of arrangement of the units or subunits of gendarmes; c) participate in the defense of localities; d) ensure the security of goods belonging to the public or private sector, in cases of evacuation imposed by the enemy's actions e) participate in actions to eliminate the effects of blows executed by the enemy with aviation, with means of mass destruction, fire or classical; f) participate in: the evacuation of the population; the order and guidance of the movement; the escorting of the prisoners of war and their security in the camps of the interior area; the directing and guidance of the refugees; the guard and the defense of some special purpose districts g) execute any other duties and missions on defense of the country, according to the law + Chapter 4 Staff of the Romanian Gendarmerie + Article 24 The staff of the Romanian Gendarmerie are composed of soldiers and civilian employees. + Article 25 (1) The number of posts of officers, military foremen, non-commissioned officers, gendarmes, contract-based employees, military personnel in term and civil employees of the Romanian Gendarmerie, peace time and mobilization, shall be established by the interior ministry, within the limit effectives approved by Government decision. (2) The appointment of staff shall be made according to the competent order of the Minister of the Interior. + Article 26 (1) The permanent staff of the Romanian Gendarmerie enjoy stability in the unit to which it was appointed. (2) The transfer, transfer or posting of personnel may be made in the cases and under the conditions provided by law. + Article 27 (1) Military personnel from gendarmes units will take the military oath provided for the soldiers of the armed forces of Romania. (2) Civil salariates shall submit, in framing, the following oath: " I ... swear to respect the Constitution and the laws of Romania, to keep the professional secret and to fulfill in good faith the tasks entrusted to me. So help me God! " + Article 28 (1) The selection, preparation and promotion of military personnel for the Romanian Gendarmerie shall be carried out according to the law and orders of the Minister of Interior. (2) The military cadres of the Romanian Gendarmerie come, as a rule, from the ranks of graduates of military educational institutions. For some activities, specialists with appropriate studies from other sectors of activity, who meet the legal conditions, can be assigned. + Article 29 (1) The training of gendarmes officers is carried out in military institutions of higher education belonging to the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of National Defence, as well as through the network of civil higher education institutions. (2) The training of military foremen and sub-officers of gendarmes is carried out in own schools, in those belonging to the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of National Defence. (3) The courses of improvement of the training of the staff, as well as other courses of specialization of the preparation of the military within the term shall be organized by the National Command of the Gendarmerie. + Article 30 (1) The Romanian Gendarmerie can use military personnel on a contract basis, within the limits of the organization states approved according to the competences. (2) Gendarmes employed under the conditions of par. (1) are military quality and subject to military laws and regulations. (3) The time when a person carries out activity in the Romanian Gendarmerie, as a gendarme employed on a contract basis, constitutes seniority. + Article 31 The selection, classification, rights and obligations of the gendarmes employed on the basis of the contract shall be established by order of the Minister of the Interior. Their monetary and material rights shall be determined by Government decision. After the completion of a period of at least 4 years from the employment on the basis of contract, the gendarmes referred to art. 30 may take exams for the passage into the body of the subofficers or military foremen, according to the provisions of the Military Staff Statute. + Chapter 5 Rights and obligations of the Romanian Gendarmerie staff + Section 1 Rights and obligations of the military + Article 32 (1) In carrying out their duties according to the law, the soldiers of the Romanian Gendarmerie are invested with the exercise of public authority. (2) Officers, military maisters, sub-officers and soldiers of the gendarmerie, employees on a contract basis, have the following rights and obligations: a) to provide support to persons with functions involving the exercise of public authority, if they encounter physical resistance in the performance of their duties; b) to legitimize and establish the identity of persons who have committed contraventions by committing acts of violation of certain norms of social coexistence, public order and tranquility or to the regime of the security of goods in the objectives that have security provided with gendarmes; c) to find and apply sanctions, under the law, in the case of contraventions provided in lett. b); d) to participate in the execution of controls and specific actions for the discovery and neutralization of terrorist-diversionary elements on the territory of Romania; e) to use any means of transport and telecommunications, public or private property, except those belonging to the diplomatic corps, for taking legal measures that do not suffer postponement and which cannot be brought to fruition otherwise. The expenses occasioned in such circumstances will be paid later, at the request of the owners, and will be borne, as the case may be, from the funds of the Ministry of Interior or by the persons who caused the intervention; f) to request the support of citizens for tracking, catching and taking legal measures against persons who have committed or intend to commit crimes or other violations of the legal norms in force; g) to act for the prevention of crimes, about whose imminent training or commission has been noticed; h) to intervene, in the case of flagrant crimes, for the immobilization of the perpetrator, to hand him over immediately to the nearest police unit, together with the material means of proof and with the minutes of finding. (3) In the exercise of their duties, the gendarmes are obliged to make their quality known in advance and to present the service card. + Article 33 The soldiers of the Romanian Gendarmerie, in carrying out their duties, have the obligation to respect the fundamental rights and freedoms of man, to provide medical care to people who need it as a result of forceful intervention. The military of the Romanian Gendarmerie are prohibited from committing acts of torture, the application of degrading or inhuman measures, as well as the execution of manifestly illegal orders. + Article 34 In carrying out their duties, the gendarmes use the armaments provided, protective shields, helmets with visor, rubber sticks, electrostatic energy sticks, means with irritant-tear substances, white weapons, water jets or colorants, handcuffs, service dogs, sound and light devices, armored means of protection, as well as any means of protection and immobilization, in the following situations: a) to prevent and neutralize the aggressive actions of persons who seriously disturb public order, actions that could not be removed or annihilated by the use of other legal means; b) against those who enter, without right, in the premises of public authorities, political parties or other institutions of public or private interest and who, warned and ordered, refused to leave these premises immediately, as well as against organised groups which impede the normal conduct of work on communications, public places and other important objectives; c) for the immobilization and detention of persons or groups of persons who cause disorder and undertake actions that endanger life, bodily integrity or health of persons, public or private property, orders or other persons vested with functions involving the exercise of public authority or seriously disturb public order by acts of violence. + Article 35 In case of absolute necessity and when the use of other means of immobilization or coercion has not yielded results, the gendarmes make use of the weapon, under the conditions strictly provided by law. + Article 36 (1) Use of the means provided in art. 34 is made only after the warning and summoning of the participants to disperse, by the head of the order device or by his hierarchical bosses. (2) For the execution of dispersal, the corresponding time shall be provided to the participants, determined in relation to their number, ways and possibilities of deflusion. ((3) Warning and injunction shall not be necessary if acts of violence that endanger life, bodily integrity or health are exercised on the order personnel. + Article 37 (1) Warning and summons consist in the use of sound or light signals and in the warning of persons in the situations provided in art. 34, by means of sound amplification, on the obligation to disperse and comply with the legal provisions. (2) If, after warning, the participants have not dispersed, they are warned, by means of sound amplification, as follows: first summons: "Attention, please leave ...., we will use force!", followed by sound and light signals. (3) If, after the passage of the necessary period for dispersal, it is found that the first summons was left without a result, it goes to the use of the last summons, as follows: the last summons "" Leave ...., force will be used! ", followed by sound signals and bright. (4) For the collection of summons by all participants, a light signal shall be issued before the use of the means of immobilisation or constraint by red, vertical-drawn signalling cartridges. + Article 38 Use of means provided in art. 34 is done gradually and must not exceed the real needs for the immobilization of turbulent or aggressive persons or for the neutralization of illegal actions and will cease as soon as the purpose of the mission has been achieved. + Article 39 (1) The intervention in force and the use of technical means provided, including the use of the weapon, shall be approved, in writing, by the prefect or sub-prefect or, as the case may be, by the mayor or his replacement from the locality where one of the the situations provided in art. 34 and is executed in the presence of a delegated prosecutor. ((2) The approval of the intervention in force is not necessary if violence is exercised on the order personnel or when their life, bodily integrity or health is in imminent danger. (3) The approval of the use of the weapon is not necessary in cases where the law provides that it can be done without notice. + Article 40 The causes of personal injury or death of any person as a result of forcible intervention shall be investigated immediately by the delegated prosecutor or, as the case may be, by the competent prosecutor. + Article 41 People guilty of violating the law will be immobilized, removed as soon as possible from the place of unrest and led, as the case may be, to the nearest police or gendarmes unit. + Article 42 (1) For the performance of their duties, the soldiers of the Romanian Gendarmerie may hold, wear and use their weapons, ammunition and means of endowment, under the law, as well as of the military regulations, instructions and orders given on the basis of to them. (2) Military cadres have the right to carry the gun and ammunition related to the equipment and as weapons for security and self-defense. + Article 43 Officers, military foremen and sub-officers of the Romanian Gendarmerie are obliged to intervene outside the hours of the program or their duties, when they are aware of the preparation or commission of a crime, acting for the preservation of the delicate bodies, the other material means of proof, the detention of the perpetrators and their surrender to the competent bodies. + Article 44 The soldiers of the Romanian Gendarmerie are personally responsible for carrying out the duties specific to the position or job and to execute the legal provisions they receive from the competent authorities. + Section 2 Other rights of civil servants and employees + Article 45 (1) The scales, salaries and other money rights that are due to the staff of the Romanian Gendarmerie are provided in laws and decisions of the Government. (2) Military gendarme cadres, which, for reasons of illness, accidents or other such events, occurred during, due to or in connection with the service, can no longer perform their duties and are listed in another position, retain solda and the other money rights previously had. (3) The insurance premiums for the damage caused by the accident of motor vehicles driven by the military, within-drivers, during the execution of the missions, shall be paid by the Ministry of Interior. + Article 46 (1) The right to pension of officers, military foremen, petty officers and civil employees of the Romanian Gendarmerie is established under the law. (2) Military and civilian personnel in the gendarme units, during the time they are in activity and after retirement, as well as their family members-the spouse, the dependent minor wife and children or those who follow the studies up to the age for 26 years-benefits from social security rights, under the law. (3) The medical assistance and medication necessary for the working and retired staff, as well as for the members of their families shall be provided free of charge through their own health facilities of the Ministry of Interior, and in the localities where it does not have own health facilities, through those belonging to the Ministry of National Defence, according to the protocol concluded with this ministry, or in the health facilities of the Ministry of Health + Article 47 (1) Military personnel from the gendarmerie, who lead, coordinate or execute operative activities, fall within the group I of work. (2) Military personnel from the gendarmerie, other than that provided in par. ((1), falls within the second group of work. (3) The incadres into labor groups of the military personnel of the gendarmerie shall be established by order of the Minister of Interior. + Article 48 (1) The wife and children of the officer, military foreman, petty officer and gendarme employed on a contract basis, who died during or because of the service, are granted the pension equal to the full solda had in the last month of activity. (2) If the officer, military foreman, petty officer or gendarme employed on a contract basis, deceased, had no children and was the sole supporter of his parents deprived of sufficient means of existence, they will benefit from half. from the survivor's pension, established according to the provisions of para. (1), and an aid in the amount of 6 monthly taxable scales. + Article 49 (1) The officer, the military foreman, the sub-officer or the contract-based gendarme, who has totally lost his or her ability to work, during or because of the service, outside the rights arising from retirement, will receive, once, an aid Equal to 12 times the full solda had in the last month of activity. (2) The officer, the military foreman, the sub-officer or the contract-based gendarme, who has partially lost his or her work capacity, during or because of the service, and can no longer continue to pursue professional duties as a military, will benefit from a pension equal to the full solda had in the last month of activity, a monetary aid equal to 12 times the basic solda had in the last month of activity, as well as the right to cumulate the pension with the salary for another activity deployed. + Article 50 (1) In the exercise of their duties, the gendarmes enjoy special protection, according to the criminal law. (2) In the case of crimes committed against the husband or wife or against the children of the gendarme, for the purpose of intimidation or revenge for the legal measures taken by him in the exercise of his duties, the maximum limits of penalties provided by the criminal law shall be increased by 2 years. (3) The omor committed against a gendarme in the exercise of his duties or in connection with the performance of these duties constitutes a crime of aggravated murder and is punishable according to art. 176 of the Criminal Code. + Article 51 (1) The military and civilian personnel of the Romanian Gendarmerie, who execute, conduct or coordinate missions and duties, under conditions of special danger or in conditions of isolation, benefit from an increase of up to 30%, calculated on the basic solda, respectively at the base salary. (2) The categories of personnel benefiting from this increase shall be established by order of the Minister of the Interior. + Article 52 (1) The military and civilian personnel of the Romanian Gendarmerie shall be provided, free of charge, with the protective equipment appropriate to the specific missions they carry out, and if, as a result of the performance of their duties, they have been degraded or destroyed clothing, shoes or other personal property, it is entitled to appropriate compensation, granted by the Ministry of Interior. (2) The gendarmerie's staff, who participate in intervention missions whose duration exceeds 4 hours, shall be provided free of charge a food supplement, in the equivalent of 2,000 calories, for each day of intervention. + Article 53 Military personnel and military employees on a contract basis, who have in receipt of horses or cups of service, are entitled, during that period, to a 5% increase to the basic solda. + Article 54 The Ministry of Interior will advance the amounts necessary to cover the material damages suffered by the personnel from the gendarmes units and their family members, in the situations provided in art. 50, and will recover them from the guilty persons, according to the law. + Chapter 6 Financial and financial insurance + Article 55 (1) The National Gendarmerie Command has in the endowment of weapons, technique, ammunition, equipment and specific equipment, necessary to carry out the duties provided by law for self-defense and personnel protection, as well as the objectives in which they operate. The National Command of the Gendarmerie has in its composition its own structures, which carry out the supply of materials, logistic transports, technical, medical, veterinary, financial, livestock accommodation and animal housing. (2) In relation to their own needs, in the National Gendarmerie Command can operate agrootechnical households or commercial production companies, rest houses, as well as associations with a cultural-sporting character. + Article 56 (1) The endowment of the Romanian Gendarmerie is carried out, through the care of the Ministry of Interior, from domestic and import production. (2) The technique, equipment, substances and equipment, purchased from import, will be exempt from the payment of customs duties, according to the legislation in force. + Article 57 The revenues made from military security and the provision of other services, organized and executed according to the law by gendarmes, are fully retained as extra-budgetary income, permanently, which will be used to cover current expenses and of capital. + Article 58 ((1) The facilities for the premises of the large units, units and subunits of gendarmes shall be built from the funds allocated to the Ministry of Interior on the lands assigned on the basis of the decisions of the Government or of the local council, (2) The beneficiaries of the services carried out by the soldiers of the gendarmes units have the obligation to provide them, free of charge, the premises and spaces necessary to carry out the activity, as well as service housing for staff. (3) The mobiles owned by the gendarme units constitute public domain of national interest and are removed from the civil circuit. + Article 59 The National Command of the Gendarmerie endorses the construction projects, means and facilities necessary for the security service to the objectives provided or to be provided with military security, under the law. + Article 60 Feeding the military within the gendarme units, under the operative command of the police units, in the localities where there are no gendarmes units or formations, are carried out through popote, canteens-restaurant or private hostels, payment being supported by the units from which the flocks come. + Article 61 (1) The gendarme units use their own fleet of vehicles and are equipped with the fighting technique, transport, equipment and means of broadcasts and other specific materials, necessary to carry out the missions. (2) The vehicles intended for the performance of the gendarmerie-specific missions bear the inscription "JANDARMERIE" and are equipped with light and acoustic signalling installations. + Article 62 The National Command of the Gendarmerie is empowered: a) to approve, within the limits of its competences, the technical-economic documentation for their own investment works and to pursue their execution within the set deadlines; b) establish the rules of use, maintenance and repair for the special equipment; c) to execute the control of the material and money means, distributed to the large units and subordinated units; d) to exercise any other powers conferred by law, in the fields of material and financial insurance. + Chapter 7 Transitional and final provisions + Article 63 In the case of events that endanger the order of law, the commanders of the large units and gendarmes units inform the Ministry of Interior and, through it, the other ministries and institutions with powers established by law in this area about the conduct of events, in order to take measures to implement the action plans, approved by the Supreme Council of Defense of the Country. + Article 64 The forms and procedures of combat, whereby the gendarme units carry out their duties, shall be established by regulations approved by the Minister of the Interior. + Article 65 The military and civil personnel of the Romanian Gendarmerie respond, according to the law, for the illicit acts committed in connection with the performance of their duties. + Article 66 (1) On April 3, every year, the Day of the Romanian Gendarmerie is celebrated. (2) The staff of the Romanian Gendarmerie can be awarded honorary decorations and insignia, according to the law. + Article 67 For the personalization of gendarme units, they can be assigned, by order of the Minister of Interior, to the proposal of the National Gendarmerie Command, names having connotations or historical meanings for the area of responsibility of that unit. + Article 68 On the date of entry into force of this Law any contrary provisions shall be repealed. This law was adopted by the Chamber of Deputies at the meeting of May 4, 1998, in compliance with the provisions of 74 74 para. (1) of the Romanian Constitution. p. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES PRESIDENT ANDREI IOAN CHILIMAN This law was adopted by the Senate at the meeting of May 6, 1998, in compliance with the provisions of art 74 74 para. (1) of the Romanian Constitution. p. SENATE PRESIDENT OLIVIU GHERMAN ----------