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THE MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION AND
COMMUNICATIONS
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom – Happiness
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No. 613/2000/QD-BGTVT
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Hanoi,
March 16, 2000
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DECISION
ON REGULATION ON ENSURING ORDER AND SAFETY OF
NAVIGATION THROUGH BRIDGES ON INLAND WATERWAYS
THE MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORT
Pursuant to Decree No. 22/CP
of March 22, 1994 of the Government providing for the tasks, powers, State
management responsibilities and organizational structure of the Ministry of
Communications and Transport;
Pursuant to Decree No. 40/CP of July 5, 1996 of the Government on ensuring
order and safety in inland waterway navigation and Decree No. 77/1998/ND-CP of
September 26,1998 of the Government amending and supplementing Decree No.40/CP;
Pursuant to Decree No. 171/1999/ND-CP of December 7, 1999 of the Government
detailing the implementation of the Ordinance on Protection of Traffic Works
with regard to river navigation works;
At the proposal of the Director of the Vietnam River Navigation Department and
the Director of the Legal Department,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To issue together
with this Decision the "Regulation on ensuring order and safety of
navigation through bridges on inland waterways".
Article 2.- To assign the
following tasks to the Director of the Vietnam River Navigation Department, the
Director of the Vietnam Land Road Department and the General Director of the
Vietnam Railways Union:
1. Within the ambit of their
responsibilities to guide and organize the implementation of this Regulation.
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3. To guide the communications
inspection forces to coordinate with the traffic police and local
administration to intensify their inspection and strictly handle the
violations.
Article 3.- This Decision takes
effect 15 days after its signing.
Article 4.- The Director of the
Office of the Ministry, the Director of the Legal Department, the Director of
the Vietnam River Navigation Department, the Director of the Vietnam Land Road
Department, the General Director of the Vietnam Railways Union, the Directors
of the provincial/municipal Communications and Transport Services and the Communications
and Public Works Services, the related organizations and individuals shall have
to implement this Decision.
FOR THE MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS AND
TRANSPORT
VICE MINISTER
Pham Quang Tuyen
REGULATION
ON ENSURING ORDER AND SAFETY OF NAVIGATION
THROUGH BRIDGES ON INLAND WATERWAYS
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Article 1.- The bridge management
agency on inland waterways shall have:
1. To install signboards marking
navigable spans according to the Regulation on Signals on Inland Waterways of
Vietnam stipulated by Decision No. 1538/QD-KHKT of August 3, 1992 of the
Minister of Communications, Transport and Post (now the Ministry of
Communications and Transport) and Decision No. 1431/1999/QD-BGTVT of June 15,
1999 of the Minister of Communications and Transport;
2. To place a reverse water
gauge at the bridge pier (with zero level as the lowest point of the beam base,
bridge clearance indicator being the water surface);
3. At bridges with clearance and
breadth of navigable spans below the norms specified at Vietnam Standards
5664-1992 on technical grading of inland waterways, there must be measures to
ensure navigation safety and written notice to the waterway management agency
so as to agree on measures to guide the safe passage of waterway means through
the navigable bridge spans.
Article 2.- When conducting
survey, maintenance, repair, construction (called construction in general) at
bridges, the building units shall have :
1. Not to affect the waterway
navigation throughout the construction period;
2. Where an anti-collision
system is added to the bridge to protect the bridge piers, this system must not
affect the safety of the waterway means passing under the bridge;
3. When it is necessary to
restrict or temporarily prohibit navigation on the waterway, prior permission
must be obtained from the waterway management agency at the Section or higher
level, and such restriction or prohibition must be announced on the mass media
at least 10 (ten) days in advance;
4. All obstacles on the
river-bed must be removed from the bridge protection area after the
construction.
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1. To install signals to guide
the course for waterway means entering the bridge area under the approved plan;
2. Any change of the navigable
span must be notified to the bridge management agency in order to move the
lights and signals of the navigable span accordingly.
Article 4.- Before giving the
start-off to the transport means, the captain shall have to carefully enquire
into the characteristics of the bridges through which the means shall have to
pass, such as:
- Position of the navigable
spans;
- Clearance of each bridge;
- Breadth of the navigable
spans;
- State of the river course and
flow;
In order to take measures in
advance to ensure safety during passage of difficult and perilous places.
Article 5.- Before steering the
means through the structure, the captain has:
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2. To directly inspect the
safety equipment, such as the steering and anchoring devices, push poles,
cushions... especially when passing through structures in the area subject to
the tidal regime;
3. To inspect the preparations
and assign crew members to stand guard at necessary positions and prepare
equipment and outfit to prevent impacts under the approved plan;
4. To take great precaution when
going downstream through the bridges, especially for the bridges near
cross-sections of the water course.
Only when all conditions: water
course, hydrology, weather, technical parameters of the bridge and the
transport means are considered safe is it allowed to take the means through the
bridge. Whenever suspicions remain, the captain must order the means to stop in
order to investigate and ask for guidance from the Riverways Management Section
or Station.
Article 6.- While the means
passes through the bridge, the captain has:
1. To direct the means exactly
along the signaled navigable span according to the "Regulation on Signals
of Inland Waterways of Vietnam." For the bridges having buoys guiding into
the navigable span, the captain must steer the means along the limit course
between two rows of buoys;
2. He must personally direct and
command the means when passing the navigable span in order to deal in time with
all contingencies;
3. To slow down the speed of the
means to the necessary level in order to have the initiative in steering the
means.
Article 7.- At night time, the
captain can order the means to pass the bridge only when the navigable span has
enough signal lights on as prescribed.
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1. In the flood season, when the
flow is turbulent at the foot of the bridge and when it is considered unsafe
for passage, the captain shall have to stop the means. While awaiting passage,
the motor launch must be firmly tied to a safe place and one person must be
posted to guard the means to provide against possible drift or impacting on the
bridge pier. If several convoys pass the bridge at the same time, the captains
must coordinate with and support one another and take the means one by one
through the bridge.
2. At the bridge where the
waterways management agency has established a regulating station, the captain
must strictly obey the guidance of the station.
Article 9.- The captain is
strictly forbidden:
1. To tie the means to the
bridge framework;
2. To direct the means to move
abreast, or to avoid or overtake each other when passing through the bridge;
3. To steer the means through
the bridge when not all the crew members are on hand as prescribed;
4. To anchor the means within
the bridge protection areas.
Article 10.- The means owner must
take responsibility for using means and drivers not meeting the currently
prescribed criteria .
Article 11.- The management
agency of bridges, the management agency of inland waterways, the owners of
waterway means, the captains of vessels who violate the stipulations of this
Decision shall be dealt with according to law.