Russian Federation On Amendments and Additions to Federal The Hydrometeorological Service Laws and "On Arms" Accepted by the State Duma on June 7, 2002 approved by the Federation Council on 14 June 2002 Article 1. Amend the Federal Law of 19 July 1998 N 113-FZ "On Hydrometeorological Service" (Assembly of the Laws of the Russian Federation, 1998, Art. 3609) the following changes and additions: 1. Paragraph 9 of article 5 should read as follows: " Ensuring the protection of the State observation network delivered to hard-to-reach stations of valuable and dangerous goods, special correspondence and cargo containing media Information that constitutes a State secret, including in their transport, as well as the lives and health of workers at these stations and mobile observation points; ". 2. Supplement article 13-1 as follows: " Article 13-1. Procedures for the acquisition and use of service and hunting firearms 1. The territorial bodies and organizations of the designated federal executive authority in the field of hydrometeorology and related fields have the right to acquire and use a firearm as an official and hunting firearm In order to solve problems related to the protection of life and health of employees of these bodies and organizations, protection of property, precious and dangerous goods, special correspondence. 2. Employees of the territorial bodies and organizations of the specially authorized federal executive authority in the field of hydrometeorology and related fields, performing tasks of hydrometeorological service in difficult stations, have The right to possess, carry and use firearms in self-defence. 3. Captains of research and scientific-expeditionary vessels, their assistants, as well as employees of the territorial bodies and organizations of the Federal Executive in the region Hydrometeorology and related areas in the performance of their duties to protect the valuable and dangerous goods carried by them, special correspondence and goods containing State secrets The right to possess, carry and use service weapons. 4. The officials and employees referred to in this article shall use the weapons in accordance with the procedure established by the Federal Act on departmental security. 5. The list of officials and employees who have the right to possess, carry and use official and hunting weapons, as well as the types, models and quantities of such weapons, shall be established by the Government of the Russian Federation. 6. The territorial bodies and organizations referred to in this article are obliged to acquire, preserve, register and carry out arms transfers to officials and employees in accordance with the procedure established for legal persons with special statutory tasks of the Federal The law on weapons and other legal acts of the Russian Federation. ". Article 2. Amend Part 5 of Article 12 Federal Act dated December 13, 1996 N 150-FZ " On arms " (Legislative Assembly of the Russian Federation, 1996, N 51, p. 5681; 1998, N 31, est. 3834), reworded it as follows: "The acquisition and use of hunting firearms as a service: , which are in accordance with the Federal Act on Animal Peace" are responsible for the conservation of animal welfare and habitat; territorial bodies and organizations of a specially authorized federal executive authority in the field of hydrometeorology and related fields, under the Federal Act on Hydrometeorological service "activities in hard-to-reach stations." Article 3. This law shall enter into force on the date of its official publication. President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin Moscow, Kremlin 25 June 2002 N 70-FZ
