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Regional Law No. 152-OZ “On protection of forests against forest fires”.

Country/Territory
Russian Federation
Territorial subdivision
Amur
Document type
Legislation
Date
1999 (1999)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Forestry
Keyword
Forest management/forest conservation Forest service/forest officers Forest fires
Geographical area
Arctic, Asia and the Pacific, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific
Entry into force notes
This Regional Law enters into force 10 days after the date of its official publication.
Abstract

The scope of this Regional Law shall be to regulate protection of forests against forest fires. In order to ensure safety regional administration shall have the right to restrict or prohibit stay of citizens in forests in the period of high risk of forest fires. All the organizations, irrespectively of the form of ownership, which activity may have impact of the state of forests, must carry out forest fire prevention arrangements under the supervision of State Forest Service. Citizens and legal persons, carrying out working or recreational activity in forests must have ready-for-use fire extinguishing means and immediately use them in case of the outbreak of forest fires.

Full text
Russian
Website
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