LAW OF THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC

of June 7, 2016 No. 78

About ensuring fire safety

Accepted by Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic on April 28, 2016

Section I. General principles of ensuring fire safety

Chapter 1. General provisions

Article 1. Purposes and scope of this Law

1. This Law is directed to protection of life and health of citizens, property of physical persons and legal entities, the state-owned and municipal property against the fires, determines basic provisions of technical regulation in the field of fire safety and establishes general requirements of fire safety to products, subjects to protection, including to buildings and constructions, production facilities, fire and technical products and products of general purpose.

2. Requirements of this Law are obligatory for execution:

1) during the designing, construction, reshaping, re-planning or reconstruction, capital repairs of construction objects, modernization, maintenance, operation and utilization of subjects to protection;

2) in case of development, acceptance, application and execution of regulatory legal acts, the technical documentation on subjects to protection containing requirements of fire safety.

3. Concerning military objects, objects of production, conversion, storage radioactive and explosives and materials, subjects to destruction and storage of weapon and blasting agents, excavations, the woods along with this Law requirements of the corresponding regulatory legal acts of the Kyrgyz Republic in the field of fire safety also shall be observed.

Article 2. Basic concepts

In this Law the following concepts are applied:

1) emergency exit - exit (door, the hatch, window) which conducts on the way of evacuation, directly outside or to the safety area and which is used as additional exit for rescue of people, but is not considered in case of assessment of conformity of necessary quantity and the sizes of evacuation ways and exits to conditions of safe evacuation of people in case of the fire;

2) the safety area - zone in which people are protected from impact of dangerous factors of the fire or in which dangerous factors of the fire are absent;

3) explosion - the bystry chemical transformation of the circle which is followed by allocation of energy and formation of the compressed gases;

4) explosive mix - mix with air of combustible gases, vapors of flammable liquids, combustible dust or fibers with the lower concentration limit of ignition to 65 g/m3 upon their transition to suspension which in case of certain concentration and emergence of source of initiation of explosion is capable to explode;

5) vzryvopozharoopasnost of subject to protection - the condition of subject to protection characterized by possibility of explosion and development of the fire;

6) the combustible circle - the circle capable to ignite in case of impact of source of ignition;

7) ignition source - the means of energy impact initiating emergence of burning;

8) class of constructive fire risk of buildings, constructions and fire compartments - the classification characteristic of buildings, constructions and fire compartments determined by extent of participation of building constructions in development of the fire and formation of dangerous factors of the fire;

9) class of functional fire risk of buildings, constructions and fire compartments - the classification characteristic of buildings, constructions and fire compartments determined by their purpose and features of operation, including features of the engineering procedures of production happening in them;

10) outside installation - complex of the devices and processing equipment located out of buildings;

11) necessary time of evacuation - time from the moment of emergence of the fire during which people shall be evacuated to the safety area without damnification of their life and to health as a result of impact of dangerous factors of the fire;

12) subject to protection - the property of physical persons or legal entities, the state-owned or municipal property (including the territory, buildings, constructions, vehicles, technological installations, the equipment, aggregates, products and other property) to which are established or shall be established requirements of fire safety;

Oxidizers - the substances and materials having capability to react 13) with combustible substances, causing their burning, and also to increase its intensity;

14) dangerous factors of the fire - fire factors which impact can lead to injury, poisoning or death of the person and (or) to material damage;

15) dangerous factors of explosion - explosion factors which impact can lead to defeat (destruction) of objects (structures), injury, death of people and (or) to material damage;

16) the seat of fire - the place of initial emergence of the fire;

17) emergency firefighting equipment - the figurative or portable fire extinguishing means used for fight against the fire in initial stage of its development;

18) the fire - the uncontrollable burning causing material damage, harm of life and to health of citizens, interests of society and state;

19) the fire announcer - the technical tool intended for signal transmission about the fire;

20) the fire annunciator - the technical tool intended day of the notification of people about the fire;

21) fire risk of subject to protection - the condition of subject to protection characterized by possibility and fire developments, and also impact of dangerous factors of the fire on people and material values;

22) fire risk of substances and materials - danger of emergence of burning or explosion of substances and materials;

23) fire safety of subject to protection - the condition of subject to protection characterized by possibility of prevention of origin and development of the fire, and also impact of dangerous factors of the fire on people and material values;

24) fire depot - object of bodies of ensuring fire safety in which rooms for storage of the fire fighting equipment and its maintenance, service premises for accommodation of staff, the room for acceptance of messages on the fire, the technical and auxiliary rooms necessary for accomplishment of the tasks assigned to bodies of ensuring fire safety are located;

25) fire compartment - the part of the building (construction) allocated with fire-proof walls and fire-proof overlappings or coverings with the fire resistance limits providing non-proliferation of the fire for its borders during fire duration;

26) fire-and-explosion hazard of substances and materials - capability of substances and materials for education combustible (fire-dangerous or explosive) environments, characterized by their physical and chemical properties and (or) behavior in the conditions of the fire;

27) fire hazardous (explosive) zone - part of the closed or open space within which constantly or periodically combustible substances (explosive mixes) address and in which they can be in case of the normal mode of engineering procedure or its violation (accident), having high danger to emergence of the fire (explosion);

28) fire and technical inspection - the examination conducted for the purpose of identification of violations of requirements of fire safety and taking measures to their elimination;

29) fire investigation of the project documentation - consideration and approval of the project documentation of subjects to protection for the purpose of exception of violations (departures) of requirements of this Law and other regulatory legal acts when designing with issue of the corresponding conclusion;

30) the monitor of fire automatic equipment - the technical tool intended for signaling of management of automatic fire extinguishing means and (or) smoke removal and (or) notifications, and (or) other devices;

31) the reception survey meter of fire automatic equipment - the technical tool intended for acceptance of signals from fire announcers, control of integrity of loop of the fire alarm, light indication and the sound alarm system of events, forming of starting impulse of start of the monitor of fire automatic equipment;

32) limit of fire resistance of design - time from the beginning of fire impact before one of the conditions normalized for limiting this design on fire resistance;

33) production facilities - objects of industrial and agricultural purpose, including warehouses, objects of engineering and transport infrastructure (rail, road, air and pipeline transport), bonds;

34) fire-proof barrier - building construction with the normalized limit of fire resistance and class of constructive fire risk, the volume element of the building or other engineering decision intended for prevention of distribution of the fire from one part of the building (construction) in another or between buildings (constructions, green plantings);

35) fire-proof gap (fire-proof distance) - the normalized distance between buildings and (or) constructions established for prevention of distribution of the fire;

36) automatic fire protection systems - set of the technical installations, systems, devices and the equipment intended for the timely notification of people in case of the fire, managements of evacuation of people, dymozashchita of evacuation ways and rooms, detection and suppressions of the fires;

37) system of transfer of notices on the fire - set jointly the operating technical means intended for transfer on communication channels and acceptance in Item of centralized observation of notices on the fire on the protected object, office and control and diagnostic notices and also (in the presence of reverse channel) for transfer and acceptance of teams of telecontrol;

38) system of the fire alarm - set of the installations of the fire alarm mounted on one object and controlled from general fire post;

39) system of prevention of the fire - complex of the organizational actions and technical means excluding possibility of the fire on subject to protection;

40) the fire protection system - complex of the organizational actions and technical means allocated for protection of people and property against impact of dangerous factors of the fire and (or) restriction of effects of their impact for subject to protection;

41) system of antismoke protection - complex of organizational actions, space-planning decisions, engineering systems and the technical means allocated for prevention or restriction of danger of smoke of buildings and constructions in case of the fire and also impacts of its dangerous factors on people and material values;

42) construction - the volume, plane or linear, land, elevated or underground construction system consisting from bearing, and in some cases and the protecting designs and intended for accomplishment of production processes of different type, storage of materials, products, the equipment, temporary stay of people, movement of people, loads, etc.;

43) degree of fire resistance of buildings, constructions and fire compartments - the classification characteristic of buildings, constructions and fire compartments determined by limits of fire resistance of the applied building constructions;

44) technical means of the notification and management of evacuation - set of the technical means (monitors annunciators, fire annunciators) intended for the notification of people about the fire;

45) the technological circle - the substances and materials addressing in the technological equipment (technological system);

46) stability of subject to protection in case of the fire - property of subject to protection to keep constructive integrity and (or) functional purpose in case of impact of dangerous factors of the fire and their secondary manifestations;

47) installation of the fire alarm - set of the technical means intended for detection of the fire, processing, transfer in the set type of the notice on the fire, special information and (or) issues of commands for inclusion of automatic installations of fire extinguishing and smoke removals, the processing and engineering equipment, and also other devices of fire protection;

48) evacuation - process of organized independent (dependent) movement (movement) of people outside or to the safety area from rooms in which there is possibility of impact on them dangerous factors of the fire;

49) evacuation way (way of evacuation) - way of movement and (or) movement of people, the leader directly outside or to the safety area in case of the fire;

50) emergency exit - the exit conducting on the way of evacuation, directly outside or to the safety area;

51) the communication service - system of divisions of the public fire service (further - GPS) bodies of ensuring fire safety, and also type of activity on ensuring communication in bodies of ensuring fire safety, to effective complex use of means of communication and qualified technical operation of these means in governing bodies and divisions;

52) communication - set of the networks and communication services functioning in the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic as the single organizational and technical complex providing management in the GPS system;

53) means of communication - technical base for ensuring processes of collection, processing, accumulating and distribution of information.

Article 3. The legal basis of technical regulation in the field of fire safety

The legal basis of ensuring fire safety are the Constitution of the Kyrgyz Republic, this Law which came in the procedure established by the law into force the international agreements which participant is the Kyrgyz Republic, and other regulatory legal acts of the Kyrgyz Republic regulating questions of ensuring fire safety of subjects to protection.

Article 4. Bodies of ensuring fire safety

1. Bodies of ensuring fire safety of the Kyrgyz Republic, and also the main body for ensuring fire safety performing policy in the field of fire safety in the Kyrgyz Republic are determined by the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic.

2. Basis of prevention of the possible fires are fire-proof prevention and fire-proof regulation which provides all conditions for suppression of the fires and maintaining wrecking.

3. For the purpose of control of execution of requirements legislative and regulatory legal acts in the field of fire safety physical persons and legal entities, subjects to managing irrespective of patterns of ownership carry out the state fire supervision of respect for fire safety.

4. The fires which arose in the territory of the companies, organizations and the organizations where there are object fire-proof divisions can be liquidated by own forces and means of these divisions.

5. For liquidation of the fires and maintaining wrecking object (departmental) fire-proof divisions of the companies, organizations and the organizations, voluntary rescue and fire fighting forming of local government bodies, and also municipal rescue and fire fighting forming within the powers delegated by it according to the legislation according to the procedure of delegation to local government bodies of separate state powers can be attracted.

Article 5. Ensuring fire safety of subjects to protection

1. Each subject to protection shall have system of ensuring fire safety.

2. The purpose of creation of system of ensuring fire safety of subjects to protection is prevention of the fire, safety of people and protection of property in case of the fire.

3. The system of ensuring fire safety of subject to protection without fail includes system of prevention of the fire, the fire protection system, the complex of organizational and technical actions for ensuring fire safety excluding possibility of the fire and directed to prevention of danger of damnification as a result of the fire of life and to human health, and also promoting safe liquidation of the arisen fire, timely and safe evacuation of people and material values.

Article 6. Conditions of compliance of subject to protection to requirements of fire safety

1. Fire safety of subject to protection is considered secure if mandatory requirements of this Law and other regulatory legal acts of the Kyrgyz Republic in the field of fire safety are in full fulfilled.

2. Implementation of measures of fire safety of city, rural settlements, the closed objects and subjects to protection irrespective of patterns of ownership is performed by all physical persons and legal entities.

3. Fire safety of exterritorial objects, objects of the authorized state bodies of the Kyrgyz Republic knowing questions of defense, homeland security, criminal executive system, protection of frontier and also on objects of underground developments and mines, objects of the railroad is provided with own forces and means or within implementation of measures of fire safety - according to the approved plans of interaction with authorized state bodies of the Kyrgyz Republic on ensuring fire safety.

4. Fire safety in forest and the massif is provided with own forces and means of local government bodies and bodies of forestry, in cases of delegation of the state powers by it on ensuring fire safety, or within implementation of measures of fire safety - according to the approved plans of interaction with authorized state bodies of the Kyrgyz Republic in the field of prevention and suppression of the fires, and also supervision and control in the field of fire safety.

Chapter 2. Classification of the fires and dangerous factors of the fire

Article 7. Aim classification of the fires and dangerous factors of the fire

1. Classification of the fires by the form of combustible material is used for designation of scope of fire extinguishing means.

2. Classification of the fires by complexity of their suppression is used in case of determination of structure of forces and means of divisions of the fire and other services necessary for suppression of the fires.

3. Classification of dangerous factors of the fire is used in case of substantiation of measures of fire safety, people, necessary for protection, and property in case of the fire.

Article 8. Classification of the fires

The fires are classified by the form combustible material and subdivided into the following classes:

1) the fires of solid combustible substances and materials - class "A";

2) the fires of combustible liquids or the melting solid substances and materials - class "B";

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