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AGLC4 | 도로교통법 2015 [Road Traffic Law of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (2015)] [tr Daye Gang].
Bluebook | Dorogyotongbeob 2015 [Road Traffic Law of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (2015)] translated in Law and North Korea by Daye Gang, https://www.lawandnorthkorea.com/.
Adopted on October 6, Juche 93 (2004), as Directive No. 709 of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly
Amended and supplemented on May 8, Juche 96 (2007), as Directive No. 2227 of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly
Amended and supplemented on October 9, Juche 96 (2007), as Directive No. 2400 of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly
Amended and supplemented on December 8, Juche 98 (2009), as Directive No. 482 of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly
Amended and supplemented on August 10, Juche 99 (2010), as Directive No. 1023 of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly
Amended and supplemented on May 8, Juche 102 (2013), as Directive No. 3156 of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly
Amended and supplemented on November 21, Juche 102 (2013), as Directive No. 3448 of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly
Amended and supplemented on February 11, Juche 104 (2015), as Directive No. 353 of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly
CHAPTER I. BASICS OF ROAD TRAFFIC LAW
Article 1 (Objectives of Road Traffic Law)
The Road Traffic Law of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea shall strictly adopt systems and order in road traffic control signs, safety facilities management, and pedestrian and vehicular passage, and shall serve to assure the safety and speed of road traffic.
Article 2 (Road traffic control signs and principle of safety facilities management)
Road traffic is an important yardstick for showing the degree of civilisation of a country.
The State shall guarantee the accuracy and speed of road traffic control signs in conformity with increases in the volume of road traffic, shall install modern road safety facilities, and shall scientize and normalize its management.
Article 3 (Principles of road passage)
The standards of road passage are the resolute guarantee of traffic safety.
The State shall strictly abide by the principle of driving to the right on the road, the principle of assuring priority to pedestrians, tramways, and buses, and the principle of cars with slow speeds giving ways to fast cars.
Article 4 (Principle of establishing road traffic work system)
The State shall correctly adopt a road traffic work system in conformity with the requirements of actual development, and shall ceaselessly improve and strengthen it.
Article 5 (Exchange and cooperation in the road traffic field)
The State shall develop exchange and cooperation with other countries and international organizations in the road traffic field.
Article 6 (Subject of application of law)
This law shall apply to institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens that use the roads of our country, and to the representative organs, corporations, and foreigners of other countries or international organizations (they shall be referred to as institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens below).
CHAPTER II. ROAD TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNS AND MANAGEMENT OF SAFETY FACILITIES
Article 7 (Types of road traffic control signs)
Road traffic control signs are safety markers that assure the passage of pedestrians and cars in crossings and intersections of streets. Among road traffic control signs there are signs done by traffic officials, and signs by automatic traffic lights.
Article 8 (Traffic conduct signs of traffic officials)
Traffic conduct signs that traffic officials do are as follows.
1. Signs to go straight
2. Signs to turn
3. General warning signs
4. Special warning signs
5. Electric tramway guidance signs
Article 9 (Traffic conduct signs according to automatic traffic signs)
Traffic conduct signs according to automatic traffic signs are as follows.
1. Passage signals that will be green traffic signs
2. General warning signs that will be yellow traffic signs
3. Stop signals that will be red traffic signs
4. Special warning signs that will be lit by the red traffic sign and yellow traffic sign together
5. Electric tramway guidance signs that will be square traffic signs
Article 10 (Placement of traffic officials, installation of automatic traffic signs)
People’s safety institutions must place traffic officials in places where the road traffic is complex, and in the intersections of streets.
Road management institutions shall agree with the relevant people’s safety institutions to install automatic traffic lights in designated places. Pedestrians and cars must pass according to traffic conduct signs.
Article 11 (Types of road safety facilities)
Road safety facilities are signs to assure the traffic safety and comfort of pedestrians and cars. Road safety facilities include things like warning, prohibition, direction, and guidance signs, road markings, road safety protection fencing and guardrails, and reflectors
Article 12 (Installation of road safety facilities)
Municipal administration institutions, land environmental protection institutions, and road construction institutions must install road safety facilities in designated places. In these cases, it must be agreed with people’s safety institutions.
Institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens must not do acts of making road safety facilities unusable or changing them at will. Passage must be done according to the signs of road safety facilities.
Article 13 (Parking planning settings)
Municipal administration institutions, and environmental protection institutions, People’s Committees at each level, and relevant authorities shall determine parking planning in required places such as highways, important roads, theatres, movie theatres, public places, and residential complexes, with the connection of people’s safety institutions, and must install signs according to the regulations.
Article 14 (Safety measures for electricity lines and communication lines that have crossed a road)
Institutions, enterprises and organizations seeking to extend things like electricity lines or communication lines on the road shall guarantee a height so that cars can pass safely, and under electricity lines with high voltage shall be hung an iron mesh net or relevant safety measures must be adopted. In cases where a road is sought to be repaired or blockaded, the approval of the people’s safety institution and road management institution must be received, then a detour shall be made and the relevant road safety marker shall be posted.
Article 15 (Planned installation of road safety facilities)
The municipal administration institution, the land environmental protection institution, and the road construction institution shall do the installation and management work for road safety facilities in interconnection with the State plan.
CHAPTER III. PASSAGE OF PEDESTRIANS
Article 16 (Basic requirements of pedestrian passage)
Pedestrians are direct parties of road passage. Pedestrians must only travel on pavements. On roads where there is no clear pavement, they must travel on the right side.
Article 17 (Passage of crossings)
Pedestrians seeking to cross the road must travel through crossings, underground crossings, pedestrian overpasses. In cases where a road without crossings facilities is sought to be crossed, there must be no interference to the passage of cars.
Article 18 (Prohibition on passage on highway)
Pedestrians may not travel on highways. Pedestrians seeking to cross a highway must travel on pedestrian overpasses or underground crossings.
Article 19 (Passage of lineups)
Lineups must travel on pavements in an orderly way. During State events or in special cases, they may travel on the street. In these cases, it must be agreed with the relevant people’s safety institutions.
Article 20 (Travel of people with physical disability and children of preschool age)
People with physical disability and children of preschool age who can cause interference to the passage of pedestrians and cars must travel on the road together with a guardian. A guardian must ensure that people with physical disability or children of preschool age do not wander or play on the road.
Article 21 (Use of handcarts and prams by pedestrians)
Pedestrians who use handcarts or prams shall travel by pavement, and on roads where the pavement is not defined, they must travel on the right side.
Article 22 (Use of buses and tramways by pedestrians)
Pedestrians using buses or tramways shall board and alight in a line, and may not hang onto the car or jump down from a car in motion. They may not board a bus or tramway with things like substances with offensive smells, domestic animals, explosives, and flammable substances, and must not extend their head or hands, or throw objects, out of the car windows,
Article 23 (Use of trishaws by pedestrians)
Pedestrians using trishaws shall use designated roads and must travel on the right side of the street. In these cases, the width of the loaded cargo may not be more than the cargo box of the trishaw.
Article 24 (Use of bicycles by pedestrians)
Pedestrians using bicycles shall travel on the bicycle path, and on roads where there are no bicycle paths must travel on the right side of the street. In these cases, one child of preschool age may ride on the bicycle, and the width of the loaded cargo may not be more than the width of the bicycle handles. Bicycles that do not have bicycle bells or lights or where the brakes are defective may not be used, and bicycles may not be overtaken on places where the traffic is complex, streets, and bicycle paths.
Article 25 (Use of carts by pedestrians)
Pedestrians using carts must travel on the right side of the street. In these cases, loaded cargo may not be more than the designated length and width, and roads may not be used that have not been designated inside the city, acts of travelling in time periods that have not been designated may not be done, acts of parking carts in narrow streets, city roads, and bridges where cars cannot pass may not be done, and acts of using carts that do not have waste boxes.
CHAPTER IV. TRAVEL OF CARS
Article 26 (Basics requirements of car travel)
Adopting strict discipline and order in car travel is a basic guarantee of road traffic safety.
The driving qualifications assessment institution and vehicle supervision institution must strictly do the qualifications assessment and registration of drivers and must correctly register and inspect cars.
Article 27 (Types and grades of car driving qualifications)
Car may only be driven with driving qualifications. Car driving qualifications shall be classified into cars, tractors, tramways, designated cars, and motorcycle driving qualifications, and shall be divided into Levels 1-4 according to each type of driving qualification. There shall be no grades to designated car and motorcycle driving qualifications. Drivers may not drive cars that do not conform to the type and grade of his or her driving qualification.
Article 28 (Taking a driving qualifications examination)
Citizens seeking to receive driving qualifications for a car shall submit a driving qualifications examination application document to the relevant driving qualifications assessment institution, and must take the examination relevant to the type and grade of driving qualifications. The subjects of driving qualifications examination shall be things like
road traffic regulations, vehicle mechanics, safe driving, and driving practice.
Article 29 (Issue of driver’s licence)
The driving qualifications assessment institution must register citizens who have passed the driving qualification examination and must issue a driver’s license to him or her. A citizen registered with the relevant driving qualifications assessment institution must make a change in registration in cases where things like the name of his or her institution or enterprise organization, affiliation, or domicile change. The driver’s licence must state the type and grade of driving qualifications, and the car he or she is allowed to drive.
Article 30 (Reissue of driver’s licence)
In cases where a driver’s licence has been lost or damaged, an application document to reissue the driver’s licence to the relevant driving qualifications assessment institution and it must be reissued and received. The driving qualifications assessment institution must correctly review and confirm the submitted application document and must reissue the driver’s licence.
Article 31 (Issue of driver’s licence)
In cases where the unit of issue of driver’s licences has changed, driver’s licences must be issued. In these cases, citizens wanting a driver’s licence to be issued must submit an application document to the relevant driving qualifications assessment institution. A driving qualifications assessment institution that has received an application document for the issue of a driver’s licence may organize a driving qualifications examination for citizens seeking the issue of a driver’s licence.
Article 32 (Issue and practical training of learner’s licences)
Citizens who have graduated from driving training institutions but have failed their driving qualification examinations, and citizens being trained at institutions, enterprises and organizations, may be issued learner’s licences. Citizens who have been issued a learner’s licence may practice driving in the presence of a driver who owns a driver’s licence of at least Level 2.
Article 33 (Types of cars to be registered and inspected)
The vehicle supervision institution must correctly register vehicles like cars, tractors, bulldozers, excavators, tramways, and motorcycles, and must inspect the technical state of the vehicle. In these cases, institutions, enterprises and organizations of our country may not register cars or small buses outside the structure determined by the relevant authorities. Institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens must register vehicles in time and must receive inspections.
Article 34 (Types of vehicle registration)
The registration of vehicles shall be divided into first registration, transferred registration, amended registration, and re-registration. First registration will be done in cases where a car that has not been registered with the vehicle supervision institution of our country has been newly purchased; transferred registration shall be done in cases where a car registered with the relevant vehicle supervision institution has had a transfer of control, or the institution, enterprise, organization or citizen who owns the car has changed in things like name, affiliation, or domicile; amended registration shall be done in cases where things like the structure, use, or colours have been fixed or the number of a registered car is sought to be changed; re-registration shall be done in cases where organized by the central people’s safety guidance institution as necessary.
Article 35 (Registration of vehicles, registration certificate for vehicles, issue of number plates)
Institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens seeking to register a vehicle must submit a vehicle registration application document to the relevant vehicle supervision institution. A vehicle supervision institution that has received a vehicle registration application document shall review it and register the relevant vehicle, then must issue a registration certificate and number plate. Discarded vehicles, vehicles that were illegally purchased, secondhand vehicles, small secondhand buses, small passenger buses, and vehicles where the steering wheel is on the right may not be registered.
Article 36 (Reissue of registration certificate for vehicles and number plates)
In cases where a registration certificate or number plate has been lost or damaged, an application document to reissue shall be submitted to the vehicle supervision institution, and the registration certificate or number plates must be reissued and received.
Article 37 (Types of technical inspections of vehicles)
The technical inspection of a vehicle shall be divided into the initial technical inspection, regular technical inspections, technical re-inspection, technical inspections for changes, technical inspections for discarding, and temporary technical inspections. Initial technical inspections shall in cases of the first registration of the vehicle; the regular technical inspections shall be done at the end of the validity period of the inspection; technical re-inspections shall be in cases when an issue has been raised to redetermine the technical state of vehicles of relevant institutions, enterprises and organizations; technical inspections for changes shall be in cases where an amended registration has been done for a vehicle; a technical inspection for discarding shall be in cases of discarding vehicles; and temporary technical inspections shall be in cases when the central people’s safety guidance institution organizes it as necessary.
Article 38 (Technical inspection of vehicles)
Institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens seeking to receive a technical inspection of a vehicle shall have the documents, tools, and equipment required for the inspections, and must submit the technical inspection application document to the vehicle supervision institution. The vehicle supervision institution shall review the technical inspection application document, shall inspect the technical state of the vehicle, then must issue a technical inspection ticket to vehicles that have been passed.
Article 39 (Deletion of vehicle registration)
Institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens seeking to delete their vehicle registration shall submit a vehicle deletion application document, registration certificate for vehicles, and the vehicle’s number plates to the relevant vehicle supervision institution, and must receive confirmation that the vehicle registration has been deleted. Financial and banking institutions may only perform the relevant procedure in cases where the vehicle registration deletion confirmation of the vehicle supervision institution is available.
Article 40 (Prohibition of markers, window coverings)
Relevant institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens may not make markings such as text or drawings on the exterior of the car, attach coloured sheets to the glass of the vehicle, cover the windows, or change the clear glass into coloured glass, without the approval of the vehicle supervision institution,
Article 41 (Numbers of cars)
institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens must attach number plates and a number to the designated specifications, form, and method, to a vehicle. The number of the province (or municipality directly under central authority) in which the given institution, enterprise, organization and citizen resides shall be attached to the vehicle, and in the case of a vehicle that does not attach the number of the province (or municipality directly under central authority), the relevant number must be attached so that vehicles of Pyongyang city and regions can be distinguished. Vehicles that travel for the registration procedure must have newly received vehicles documents or a temporary marker issued by the relevant vehicle supervision institution. Number plates for vehicles may only be manufactured at the vehicle registration institution.
Article 42 (Prohibition of travel by defective vehicle)
Vehicles that have not been registered by the vehicle supervision institution or have not received inspections, vehicles that have failed inspections, vehicles where the validity period of the inspection has passed, unattractive vehicles, vehicles that expel black smoke or where the technical state is defective, and vehicles that do not have traffic safety support facilities and defective vehicles may not be operated.
Article 43 (Duties of vehicle drivers and prohibited matters)
Driver must sufficiently hold things such as driver’s licences, registration certificates for vehicles, operating licences and tools, equipment, and reserve components while driving the vehicle. Acts of driving after drinking alcohol or alcoholic drinks or drugs, or acts of using mobile phones while driving may not be done.
Article 44 (Allocation of cars, traffic safety command system, and car inspections)
Institutions, enterprises and organizations shall allocate repaired and serviced cars and shall give traffic safety commands, and must do car inspections every day. Car inspectors may do it exclusively or with other duties according to the number of cars.
Article 45 (Road markings of cars)
Cars shall light their headlamps and must only travel on the streets. On streets where road markings are painted, they must travel on designated road markings. On streets where road markings are not painted, they must give way to each other while travelling according to things like the speed, type, model, and operating purpose of cars.
Article 46 (Prohibition on cars blowing horns)
Cars may not blow horns in places like schools, kindergartens, creches, hospitals, and crossings, or in the city.
Article 47 (Speed of cars)
Cars shall travel at the regulated speed on the road markings, and in cases where the regulated speed cannot be produced, must draw back to the right lane. On roads that have no lanes, they must not exceed 60km per hour.
Article 48 (Prohibition on sudden braking and sudden decelerating)
A travelling car must not suddenly brake or lower speed. In cases where a risk of accident is created and must inevitably brake or lower the speed of the car, one must take the relevant safety measures.
Article 49 (Slow driving of car)
Cars that travel in places that have intersections, stops and crossing markings, places with restricted safe driving visibility, and complex places, or cars that receive interference to travel because of natural environments such as snow, rain, fog, or dust, must travel by lowering their speed.
Article 50 (Highway travel of cars)
Cars that travel on the highway must travel at the designated speed on the relevant road markings. Cars that merge into or exit from the highway shall travel on stop lines or in one lane, and must merge and travel through the relevant road markings at the designated speed. A car seeking to cross a highway may only cross in the places that have the relevant guidance markers. A car that is not allowed to travel on the highway may not travel.
Article 51 (Safe distance of cars, prohibition on cutting into car queues)
Cars must assure the instituted safe distance while travelling. They may not cut into car queues that are passing.
Article 52 (Overtaking by cars and prohibited places)
In cases where a car seeks to overtake a car in front on a road where there are no separate road markings, it must make the relevant signs. A car that has received a sign must give up the road to cars that are seeking to overtake them. In these cases, that car must not overtake a car in front again. Acts of overtaking a car may not be done in places like narrow streets, streets in sections where there is a marker to prohibit overtaking, curved roads, intersections, crossings, stops, bridges, tunnels, and railway crossings.
Article 53 (Cars passing each other)
The car that has been seen first or the car that is descending shall give way for cars passing each other on places like slopes, and the car coming in from the major road must give way for cars passing each other on a major road and a narrow road.
Article 54 (Cars stopping and places prohibited from parking)
A car that is seeking to stop shall confirm safety, then must park on the right side of the street or in a carpark. In these cases, they must park or stop as designated and must make the relevant signals at night. Cars may not be parked in tunnels, bridges, three-way intersections and four-way intersections, intersections, railway crossings, slopes where the field of vision is restricted, places where the traffic is complex or there is a risk of accident such as on curved roads, places with signs prohibiting stopping or parking, and footpaths. Traffic officials shall reduce the time cars spend in three-way intersections and four-way intersections and must not pull over cars in places where the traffic is complex or there is a risk of accident such as in three-way intersections, four-way intersections, or curved roads.
Article 55 (Number of passengers in vehicles)
Only the designated number of people may ride in vehicles such as cars and buses. Cargo trucks may take passengers if they hold the required safety facilities. In these cases, the approval of the relevant people’s safety institution must be received. On a cargo truck with a loaded cargo, the seating shall be made safe and only a designated number of onloading and offloading staff may ride.
Article 56 (Prohibition on exceeding specifications on cargo loading capacity of vehicles, cargo packaging)
Cargo trucks may not load cargo that exceeds loading capacity and designated specifications. Cargo that may be knocked by the wind or fall off and damage the road or cause interference in the travel of pedestrians and other vehicles must be first packaged before loading.
Article 57 (Vehicles where boarding is prohibited)
Passengers may not ride in the cargo hold of cargo trucks and carriages that have automatic loading, are semi trailers, have cargo holds or cargo cages, or are tank style; or on cargo trucks that have loaded things like rolled steel, hardwood, explosive substances, radioactive materials, toxic substances, or flammable substances. Cargo trucks that have loaded things like explosive substances, radioactive materials, toxic substances, or flammable substances shall have the relevant markers and must have things like firefighting equipment.
Article 58 (Carriages of cars)
A car seeking to pull a carriage shall double the connecting links and each carriage must have installed brakes, spotlights or reflectors.
Article 59 (Damage repair of cars, towing broken down cars)
A car that has broken down during travel shall be parked on the right side of the street and caution markers placed at the front and back, then the damage must be repaired. On roads where a car may not be parked, the broken down car must be quickly pulled away. A car towing a broken down car must adopt the relevant safety measures and must not overtake the car in front.
Article 60 (Guarantee of priority to pedestrians at crossings)
Cars must travel after a pedestrian crosses the street at a crossing. In these cases, the pedestrian must cross the street quickly.
Article 61 (Passage of cars through intersections)
Cars must gradually lower their speed at the intersection of roads that have traffic officials and automatic traffic lights, must turn on the signal in the direction they want to go in, then must enter the relevant changing lane and must travel according to the traffic conduct signs. In these cases, acts must not be done to change lanes again inside the changing lane or to cross the stop line after the red traffic light turns on. At the intersection of a road that has no traffic officials or automatic traffic lights, cars must turn on a signal in the direction they want to go, and shall travel while paying attention to traffic safety.
Article 62 (Passage through tunnels by cars)
Cars passing through tunnels must decrease their speed. In tunnels where passing each other is arduous, the car that first entered must pass first.
Article 63 (Passage over bridges by cars)
Cars passing over bridges shall load cargo according to the safety markers of the bridge and travel. On bridges where it is arduous to pass each other, the car that first entered must pass first.
Article 64 (Passage through railway crossing by cars)
Cars seeking to cross railways shall stop 10m before the crossing, shall confirm that a train is not operating, and must pass after the safety signal. In these cases, the speed of the car must not change.
Article 65 (Passage at night by cars)
Cars travelling at night must assure the visibility of their spotlights. In these cases, on roads with streetlights, high beams may not be turned on. In cases where cars cross each other, low beam lights must be turned on to not cause interference in the passage of other cars. Cars that travel at night in the Pyongyang city central district may not turn on high beam lights.
Article 66 (Passage of buses and tramways)
Buses and tramways must travel with the door for boarding and alighting passengers closed.
Traffic officials and other cars must preferentially assure the travel of buses and tramways that have passengers on board at intersections. Buses and tramways may not stop in places that are not stops.
Article 67 (Performance of emergency duties, passage of road facilities management vehicles)
Vehicles such as emergency vehicles, firetrucks, traffic safety vehicles, and road cleaning trucks shall have alarm devices and coloured signals to perform their emergency duties. They must only done in cases of doing work for road facilities management. Vehicles that are performing urgent emergency duties or doing work for road facilities management may travel faster or slower than the regulated speed under where the condition of traffic safety can be guaranteed. In these cases, traffic officials and other vehicles must preferentially assure the travel of the relevant vehicles.
Article 68 (Travel of educational vehicles and testing vehicles)
Educational vehicles and vehicles operating as a test shall inform the relevant people’s safety institutions and must travel at a designated time period and on designated roads. Educational vehicles and testing vehicles must have markers as instituted.
Article 69 (Prohibition of passage of caterpillar vehicles)
Caterpillar vehicles may not travel on paved roads and must be transported by being loaded on cargo truck. The process for travelling on paved roads by caterpillar vehicles during State events being conducted shall be determined separately.
Article 70 (Travel by tractors, garbage trucks, motorcycles)
Tractors, and garbage trucks in cities must travel at designated time period and designated roads. Citizens riding motorcycles must wear helmets and must wear safety goggles. In these cases, designated people may be allowed to ride or cargo may be loaded.
Article 71 (Duties of drivers upon traffic accidents)
Drivers of vehicles who have caused traffic accidents must inform the relevant people’s safety institutions in time, shall clean up the scene of the accident quickly, so that there is no interference to the travel of pedestrians and other cars.
CHAPTER V. GUIDANCE AND CONTROL OVER ROAD TRAFFIC WORK
Article 72 (Basic requirements of guidance and control for road traffic work)
Guidance for road traffic work shall be done by the central people’s safety guidance institution and relevant authorities under the standardized guidance of the Cabinet. The central people’s safety guidance institution and relevant authorities must normally command and guide road traffic work.
Article 73 (Traffic safety and guarantee of convenience)
People’s safety institutions, local political institutions, and road management institutions shall normally discover, command and guide road traffic work to assure the convenience and traffic safety of pedestrians and vehicles.
Article 74 (Notifications on road state)
In cases where roads cannot be used because of road maintenance, destruction, or flooding, communications institutions must ensure that drivers and residents know those updates in time through means of communications. Materials on road state shall be normally guaranteed by people’s safety institutions.
Article 75 (Training of traffic safety workers, vehicle supervision workers, driving qualifications assessment workers)
The central people’s safety guidance institution and relevant authorities shall train traffic safety workers, vehicle supervision workers, and driving qualifications assessment workers in a planned way, and must raise their specialist technical knowledge level.
Article 76 (Guarantee of labour, facilities, resources, funds)
State planning institutions, labour administration institutions, resources supply institutions, and financial banking institutions must assure labour, facilities, resources, and funds required for road traffic work in time. The labour, facilities, resources, and funds in the road traffic sector may not be used for other areas.
Article 77 (Road traffic safety education)
Relevant institutions, enterprises and organizations shall make “traffic safety education rooms” and substantially organise and conduct road traffic safety education work and must properly operate things like “equipment inspection days” and “accident prevention measure days” with the drivers’ society.
Article 78 (Education and culture for students and children)
Education institutions and relevant authorities shall educate students and children with knowledge about traffic safety and moral education, and must organise and conduct education work using things like “traffic safety education places” in different forms and methods.
Article 79 (Creation, publication, dissemination of publications and literary works of art)
Publishing institutions, literary art institutions, and relevant authorities must create, publish, and disseminate things like popular magazines, picture books, hanging pictures, novels, films, and plays related to traffic safety and traffic education in a planned way.
Article 80 (Supervision and control for road traffic work)
Supervision and control for road traffic work shall be done by the people’s safety institutions and the relevant supervision and control institution. People’s safety institutions and the relevant supervision and control institutions must strictly supervise and control the management and use of road safety facilities, the passage of pedestrians and cars, the assessment of driving qualifications, the registration of cars, and the state of adherence to inspection order.
Article 81 (Notification of and measures for high-risk accident locations)
In cases where institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens have caused traffic accident, violated the order of traffic, or have discovered a high-risk accident location that can cause interference to road traffic must adopt measures in time, shall inform the relevant people’s safety institutions and road management institutions, and in cases where people’s safety institutions require the assurance of people and equipment required for the rescue of humans and property, they must respond in time.
Article 82 (Seizure of car)
Cars that have violated the order of registration or passage of vehicles or that have caused interference to the travel of pedestrians and cars shall be seized for up to 2 months depending on the gravity.
Article 83 (Restoration and damage compensation)
In cases where roads and their safety facilities have been damaged or their location has been changed, or vehicles have been damaged, they will be restored to their original state or the relevant damage shall be compensated.
Article 84 (Penalties)
In cases where roads and the management of their safety facilities and order for their use have been violated to cause interference to road traffic or the order of passage has been violated, a penalty shall be imposed.
Article 85 (Suspension of operation)
In cases where the technical state of a car is deficient or the order of passage has been gravely violated, the operation of the car shall be suspended.
Article 86 (Suspension, demotion, deprivation of driving qualifications)
In cases where the order of car passage has been violated or a traffic accident has been caused, driving qualifications shall be suspended, demoted, or deprived depending on the gravity.
Article 87 (Seizure, confiscation of cars)
Cars shall be seized or confiscated in the following cases.
1. In cases where the order of car passage has been gravely violated
2. In cases where a traffic accident has been caused
3. In cases where a traffic accident has been caused and he or she has absconded
4. In cases where a car that has not been registered has been used
5. In cases where an individual has purchased a car and registered it with one institution, enterprise or organization and took it to a different institution, enterprise or organization when he or she left
6. In cases where the registration certificate for vehicles or technical inspection ticket has been counterfeited
7. In cases of doing acts such as not complying with or defying proper enforcement by people’s safety institutions
8. In cases of violating traffic conduct or the order of automatic signals to create a risk of accident or causing an accident
9. In cases where the order of cars turning on headlamps at night to create a risk of accident or causing an accident to occur, the seizure or confiscation of cars shall follow the relevant regulations.
Article 88 (Administrative or criminal responsibility)
Responsible workers of institutions, enterprises and organizations and individual citizens who cause grave consequences to road traffic work by violating this law shall have administrative and criminal responsibility depending on the gravity.
Last updated 26 September 2020