Legislative base of the Russian Federation. Legislative base of the Russian Federation Order of the Ministry of Transport 196 dated 10.12 1995

THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

THE FEDERAL LAW

About road safety

State Duma

(as amended by federal laws from 02.03.1999 N 41-FZ,

dated 25.04.2002 N 41-FZ, from 10.01.2003 N 15-ФЗ,

from 22.08.2004 N 122-FZ, from 18.12.2006 N 232-FZ,

from 08.11.2007 N 257-FZ, from 01.12.2007 N 309-FZ,

from 12/30/2008 N 313-FZ, from 25.11.2009 N 267-FZ)

Chapter I. General

Article 1. Objectives of this Federal Law

This Federal Law defines the legal basis on the territory of the Russian Federation.

The objectives of this Federal Law are: the protection of life, health and property of citizens, the protection of their rights and legitimate interests, as well as the protection of the interests of society and the state by preventing road accidents, decline in the severity of their consequences.

Article 2. Basic Terms

The following main terms apply for the purposes of this Federal Law:

road traffic - a set of public relations arising in the process of moving people and cargo using vehicles or without anywhere within the road;

road safety is the state of this process, reflecting the degree of security of its participants from road traffic accidents and their consequences;

the traffic accident is an event that emerged in the process of movement along the road of the vehicle and with its participation in which people died or injured, vehicles, structures, cargo or other material damage were damaged;

ensuring road safety - activities aimed at preventing the causes of road accidents, a decrease in the severity of their consequences;

member of the Road - a person who is directly involved in the process of road traffic as a driver of a vehicle, a pedestrian, a vehicle passenger;

road organization - a complex of organizational and legal, organizational and technical measures and administrative actions to control the movement on the roads;

the road is equipped or adapted and used for the movement of vehicles strip Earth or the surface of artificial structures. The road includes one or more passage parts, as well as tramways, sidewalks, curbs and separation stripes if available;

vehicle - a device intended for transportation on the roads of people, cargo or equipment installed on it.

Article 3. Basic principles for ensuring road safety

The basic principles for ensuring road safety are:

priority of the life and health of citizens involved in road traffic, over economic results of economic activities;

the priority of the state's responsibility for ensuring road safety over the responsibility of citizens involved in road traffic;

compliance with the interests of citizens, society and the state in ensuring road safety;

program and target approach to road safety activities.

Article 4. Legislation of the Russian Federation on Road Safety

The legislation of the Russian Federation on road safety consists of this Federal Law and other federal laws adopted in accordance with other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation, laws and other regulatory legal acts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

Chapter II. Public policy in the field

Road safety

Article 5. The main directions for ensuring road safety

Ensuring road safety is carried out through:

establishing the powers and responsibility of the Government of the Russian Federation, the federal executive bodies and the executive bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation;

coordination of the activities of federal executive bodies, executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, local governments, public associations, legal entities and individuals in order to prevent road traffic accidents and reduce the severity of their consequences;

regulation of activities on the automotive, urban ground electric transport and in the road economy;

development and approval in the prescribed manner legislative, other regulatory legal acts on road safety issues: rules, standards, technical norms and other regulatory documents;

carrying out activities on the organization of the road;

material and financial support of road safety measures;

organizing the training of drivers of vehicles and training of citizens by the rules and safety requirements;

carrying a complex of road safety measures;

implementation of mandatory certification or declaration of vehicle compliance, as well as components of structures, subjects of additional equipment, spare parts and accessories of vehicles;

licensing of certain types of activities carried out in road transport, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation;

conducting socially oriented transport insurance policies;

the implementation of state supervision and control over the implementation of the legislation of the Russian Federation, rules, standards, technical norms and other regulatory documents in the field of road safety.

Article 6. Powers of the Russian Federation, constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local self-government bodies in the field of road safety

1. In the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation are:

formation and holding on the territory of the Russian Federation of a unified state policy in the field of road safety;

establishing the legal framework for road safety;

establishing a unified system of rules, standards, technical norms and other regulatory documents on road safety;

control over the compliance of laws and other regulatory legal acts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the field of ensuring the safety of the road traffic of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and federal laws;

the creation of federal executive bodies that ensure the implementation of state policies in the field of road safety;

development and approval of federal road safety improvements and their financial support;

paragraph has lost strength. - Federal Law of 22.08.2004 N 122-FZ;

the organization and implementation of the federal executive authorities or their regional structures of state supervision and control over road safety activities;

coordination of the activities of the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the field of road safety;

conclusion of international treaties of the Russian Federation in the field of road safety.

2. The powers of the federal executive authorities in the field of road safety are consumable obligations of the Russian Federation.

The federal executive authorities under an agreement with the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation may transfer them to the implementation of their powers in the field of road safety.

(paragraph 2 as amended by Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

3. The subjects of the Russian Federation outside the reference of the Russian Federation independently decide to ensure road safety.

The powers of the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the field of road safety are expendable obligations of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

The executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation under an agreement with the federal authorities of the executive branch can convey to them the implementation of part of their powers in the field of road safety.

(p. 3 as amended by Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

4. Local governments in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation and the legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation within their competence independently solve issues of road safety.

The powers of local self-government in the field of road safety are consumable obligations of municipalities.

(paragraph introduced by Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

Article 7. excluded. - Federal Law of January 10, 2003 N 15-FZ.

Article 8. Participation of public associations in the implementation of road safety measures

1. Public associations created to protect the rights and legitimate interests of citizens involved in road traffic in order to combine collective efforts of members of these organizations to prevent traffic accidents, in accordance with their charters have the right in accordance with the procedure established by law:

to contribute to the federal executive authorities and the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation proposals for the implementation of measures and the improvement of rules, standards, technical norms and other regulatory documents in the field of road safety;

at the request of members of public associations, research the causes and circumstances of road accidents, transfer materials to the prosecutor's office and represent the interests of their members in court;

conduct events for the prevention of accidents.

2. The federal executive authorities, the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, local governments and business entities may involve public associations with their consent to carry out road safety measures.

Article 9. Organization of state accounting of the main indicators of road safety

1. On the territory of the Russian Federation, state accounting of the main indicators of traffic safety. These indicators are the number of road accidents affected by citizens, vehicles, vehicle drivers; Violates of road rules, administrative offenses and criminal offenses in the field of road traffic, as well as other indicators reflecting the state of road safety and the results of its provision.

2. The public accounting system provides the organization and conduct of the federal executive bodies, the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and the local authorities of work on the formation and implementation of state policy in the field of road safety.

3. The procedure for conducting state accounting, the use of accounting information and the formation of reporting data in the field of road safety is established by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Chapter III. Security Programs

Road

Article 10. Road safety programs

1. In order to implement the state policy in the field of road safety, federal, regional and local programs aimed at reducing the number of road accidents and reduced damage from these incidents are being developed.

2. The federal programs are developed in accordance with the requirements for such programs approved by the Government of the Russian Federation.

3. The federal, regional and local road safety programs are funded at the expense of the relevant budgets and extrabudgetary sources.

Chapter IV. Basic requirements for ensuring

Road safety

Article 11. Basic requirements for road safety in the design, construction and reconstruction of roads

1. Design, construction and reconstruction of roads in the territory of the Russian Federation should ensure road safety. The compliance of the established and reconstructed roads with the requirements of the construction norms, rules, standards and other regulatory documents is established by the conclusion of an authorized executive authority of the federal executive authority or authorized to implement the State Construction Supervision of the executive authority of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation in accordance with the requirements of the legislation of the Russian Federation on urban planning Activities.

(paragraph 1 as amended by Federal Law of December 18, 2006 N 232-FZ)

2. Responsibility for the compliance of the roads established requirements in terms of road safety at the design stage is assigned to the project executor, and at the stages of reconstruction and construction - on the performer of work.

3. When designing, building and reconstructing roads, a reduction in capital costs is not allowed at the expense of engineering solutions that negatively affect the safety of the road.

Article 12. Basic requirements for road safety during repair and maintenance

1. Repair and maintenance of roads in the Russian Federation should ensure road safety. Compliance of the state of roads, standards, technical standards and other regulatory documents relating to road safety is certified by acts of control inspections or road surveys conducted with the participation of the relevant executive authorities.

2. The duty to ensure the compliance of the state of roads when they are maintained by established rules, standards, technical standards and other regulatory documents are assigned to persons carrying out the maintenance of roads.

(as amended by Federal Law of 08.11.2007 N 257-FZ)

Article 13. Arrangement of roads

The federal executive bodies, the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local governments, legal entities and individuals in which roadways are underway, take measures to arrange these roads by the objects of the service in accordance with the design standards, construction plans and the general placement schemes of the specified Objects, organize their work in order to maximize the needs of the road participants and ensure their security, represent information to road users on the presence of such facilities and the location of the nearest health care facilities and communication, as well as information on the safe conditions of movement at the respective areas of roads.

Article 14. Restriction or termination of road traffic

1. The temporary limitation or termination of the movement of vehicles on the roads to ensure road safety can be carried out by authorized by the officials of the federal executive bodies, the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, local government bodies within their competence.

2. The foundations of the temporary restriction or termination of the movement of vehicles on the roads are established by laws and other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation and the laws and other regulatory legal acts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation on the safety of the road.

Article 15. Basic requirements for ensuring road safety in the manufacture and sale of vehicles, their components, subjects of additional equipment, spare parts and accessories

1. Vehicles manufactured in the Russian Federation or imported from abroad for more than six months and intended for participation in road traffic on its territory, as well as composite parts of the structures, supplies of additional equipment, spare parts and accessories of vehicles in related to ensuring road safety is subject to mandatory certification or conformity declaration in the manner prescribed by the legislation of the Russian Federation on technical regulation.

(as amended by Federal Law of December 30, 2008 N 313-FZ)

2. The responsibility of the manufacturer (seller, artist) of vehicles, as well as components of structures, subjects of additional equipment, spare parts and accessories of vehicles to be implemented in the Russian Federation, is determined by the legislation of the Russian Federation.

(as amended by Federal Law of December 30, 2008 N 313-FZ)

3. The tolerance of vehicles intended to participate in road traffic on the territory of the Russian Federation, with the exception of vehicles participating in the international movement or imported into the territory of the Russian Federation for a period of no more than six months, is carried out in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation by registering vehicles and issuing relevant documents. Registration of vehicles without a document certifying its compliance with the established road safety requirements is prohibited.

4. After making changes to the design of registered vehicles, including the design of their components, objects of additional equipment, spare parts and accessories affecting road safety, it is necessary to conduct re-certification or re-declaration of conformity.

(as amended by Federal Law of December 30, 2008 N 313-FZ)

Article 16. Basic requirements for ensuring road safety during the operation of vehicles

1. The technical condition and equipment of vehicles involved in road traffic should ensure road safety.

2. The duty to maintain vehicles involved in road movement is in a technically good condition assigned to vehicle owners or on persons operating vehicles.

ConsultantPlus: Note.

Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 07.05.2003 No. 263 approved the rules of compulsory insurance of civil liability of vehicle owners.

3. Vehicle owners must implement compulsory insurance of their civil liability in accordance with federal law. With regard to vehicles whose owners did not fulfill this duty, a state technical inspection and registration are not carried out.

(p. 3 introduced by the Federal Law of 25.04.2002 N 41-FZ)

Article 17. State Technical Inspection of Vehicles

1. Instructions on the territory of the Russian Federation and vehicles registered in the prescribed manner are subject to mandatory state technical inspection.

On the application of paragraph 2 of Article 17, see Definition of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation dated 14.05.2002 N 94-O.

2. The procedure for holding a mandatory state technical inspection is established by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Article 18. Basic road safety requirements for maintenance and repair of vehicles

1. Maintenance and repair of vehicles in order to keep them in good condition should ensure road safety.

2. Norms, rules and procedures for maintenance and repair of vehicles are established by plant manufacturers with the conditions of their operation.

3. Legal entities and individual entrepreneurs who perform work and providing maintenance and repair of vehicles are obliged to ensure their implementation in accordance with established norms and rules.

(as amended by federal laws from 10.01.2003 N 15-FZ, from 30.12.2008 N 313-FZ)

4. Vehicles that have passed maintenance and repair must meet the requirements governing the technical condition and equipment of vehicles involved in road traffic, in a part relating to road safety, which is confirmed by the relevant document issued by the Contractor of the named works and services.

Article 19. The foundations and procedure for the prohibition of operation of vehicles

1. It is prohibited to operate vehicles if they have technical malfunctions that create a threat to road safety.

The list of faults of vehicles and conditions under which their operation is prohibited are determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

2. It is forbidden to operate vehicles whose owners are not executed by the federal law obligation to insure their civil liability.

(p. 2 introduced by the Federal Law of 25.04.2002 N 41-FZ)

3. The prohibition of operation of the vehicle is carried out by authorized by officials.

Article 20. Basic requirements for ensuring road safety to legal entities and individual entrepreneurs in carrying out activities related to the operation of vehicles

1. Legal entities and individual entrepreneurs, carrying out activities related to the operation of vehicles in the Russian Federation, are required:

organize the work of drivers in accordance with the requirements of road safety;

comply with the labor and recreation of drivers established by the legislation of the Russian Federation;

create conditions for improving the qualifications of drivers and other employees of automotive and terrestrial urban electric vehicles that ensure road safety;

analyze and eliminate the causes of road traffic accidents and violations of road rules with the participation of vehicles belonging to them;

organize and carry out prerace medical examinations of drivers, activities to improve the skills of first aid victims by drivers in road traffic accidents with the involvement of health authorities.

ensure compliance with the technical condition of vehicles to the safety requirements of the road and not allow vehicles to operate if they have malfunctions that threaten road safety;

ensure fulfillment by the federal law obligation to insurance for civil liability of vehicle owners.

(paragraph introduced by the Federal Law of 25.04.2002 N 41-FZ)

2. To legal entities and individual entrepreneurs are prohibited in whatever form to file or encourage drivers of vehicles to violate them by road safety requirements.

3. Legal entities engaged in transportation by road and terrestrial urban electric transport, taking into account the peculiarities of transportation and within the current legislation of the Russian Federation on road safety can establish special rules and make additional requirements for vehicle drivers to ensure road safety.

Article 21. Events on the organization of the road

1. Events on the organization of the road movement are carried out in order to increase its safety and capacity of roads by federal executive bodies, the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local government, legal entities and individuals, which are carried out by road.

2. Development and implementation of these activities are carried out in accordance with the regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation and regulatory legal acts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation on the basis of projects, schemes and other documentation approved in the prescribed manner.

Article 22. Requirements for road safety in the process of its organization

1. Road organization activities should be carried out on the basis of the integrated use of technical means and structures, the application of which is regulated by the standards operating in the Russian Federation and are provided for by projects and schemes for the organization of the road traffic.

2. Changes in the organization of road traffic to increase the capacity of roads or for other purposes by reducing the level of road safety are not allowed.

3. Changing the organization of movement of vehicles and pedestrians in urgent cases in the event of a real threat to road safety should be carried out only by the officials of the internal affairs bodies of the Russian Federation or officials of road and utilities, with the subsequent notification of the internal affairs of the Russian Federation. The orders of the specified persons are required for all participants in the road.

4. The uniform order of road traffic throughout the Russian Federation is established by the rules of the road, approved by the Government of the Russian Federation.

5. On the roads of the Russian Federation, the right-hand movement of vehicles is established.

Article 23. Medical Safety of Road Safety

1. Road safety medical enforcement lies in compulsory medical examination and re-examining candidates for drivers and drivers of vehicles, conducting pre-trip, post-track and current medical examinations of vehicle drivers, providing medical care for traffic accidents, training participants in road traffic persons of the internal affairs of the Russian Federation and other specialized divisions, as well as the public receptions for first aid to persons affected by road traffic accidents.

(as amended by Federal Law of 25.11.2009 N 267-FZ)

2. The purpose of compulsory medical examination and re-examination is the definition of vehicle drivers and candidates for medical contraindications or driving restrictions.

3. The first assistance is affected in road traffic accidents, as well as medical assistance, which is:

providing emergency medical care at the site of a traffic accident and in the way to the medical and prophylactic institution;

provision of primary health care and specialized medical care.

(p. 3 as amended by Federal Law of November 25, 2009 N 267-FZ)

ConsultantPlus: Note.

On the frequency of mandatory medical examinations, a list of medical contraindications, in which a citizen of the Russian Federation is prohibited to manage vehicles, see the order of the USSR Ministry of Health of 09/29/1989 N 555, on the procedure for conducting mandatory preliminary workers when entering work and periodic medical examinations of workers, see order Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation of 14.03.1996 N 90.

4. The frequency of mandatory medical examinations, the procedure for their conduct, a list of medical contraindications, in which the citizen of the Russian Federation is prohibited to manage vehicles, as well as the procedure for organizing medical care to victims in road accidents are established by federal law.

Article 24. Rights and obligations of road participants

1. Rights of citizens on the safe conditions of traffic on the roads of the Russian Federation are guaranteed by the state and are provided by implementing the legislation of the Russian Federation on the safety of road traffic and international treaties of the Russian Federation.

2. The implementation by participants in the road traffic should not limit or violate the rights of other road users.

3. Road participants are entitled:

freely and freely move on roads in accordance and on the basis of established rules, to receive from executive authorities and individuals listed in Article 13 of this Federal Law, reliable information about safe road conditions;

receive information from officials specified in Article 14 of this Federal Law, on the reasons for establishing restriction or prohibition of road traffic;

receive complete and reliable information about the quality of products and services related to ensuring road safety;

on free medical care, rescue work and other emergency assistance in a traffic accident from organizations and (or) officials in which the law, other regulatory legal acts entrusted the obligation to provide such assistance;

(as amended by Federal Law of January 10, 2003 N 15-FZ)

for reimbursement of damage on the grounds and in the manner as established by the legislation of the Russian Federation, in cases of injury to them, as well as in cases of damage to the vehicle and (or) cargo as a result of a traffic accident;

appeal in the manner prescribed by the legislation of the Russian Federation, illegal actions of officials carrying out powers in ensuring road safety.

4. Road participants are obliged to comply with the requirements of this Federal Law and the regulatory acts published in accordance with it in terms of road safety.

Article 25. Terms of receipt of the right to managing vehicles

1. Citizens of the Russian Federation, which have reached the age-established age and not having restrictions on the driver's activities may, after appropriate preparation, be allowed to receive the right to manage vehicles.

For the exams for the right to managing vehicles of category "B" and categories "C", persons who have reached seventeen years old and have passed the appropriate training in educational institutions, educational institutions of primary vocational education, if such preparation is provided for by educational programs, specialized youthful automotive Schools, as well as in other organizations engaged in the preparation of vehicle drivers in the areas of military commissariates. Driving licenses These individuals are obtained by their achievement of eighteen years.

(paragraph introduced by Federal Law of 02.03.1999 N 41-FZ)

2. The right to managing vehicles is provided:

motorcycles, scooters and other motorcycles (category "A") - persons who have reached the age of sixteen;

cars that allowed the maximum mass of which does not exceed 3,500 kilograms and the number of seats of which, in addition to the driver's seat, does not exceed eight (category "in"), as well as cars, the allowed maximum mass of which exceeds 3,500 kilograms, with the exception of the category "D" (category "C"), - to those who have reached the eighteen age;

cars intended for the carriage of passengers and having, in addition to the driver's seat, more than eight seating sites (category "D"), to those who have reached the twentieth age;

trams and trolleybuses - the people who have reached the twentieth age.

Article 26. Basic requirements for the preparation of drivers of vehicles

1. Allowed to pass the exams to obtain the right to managing vehicles by citizens who have passed the appropriate training in the amount provided for by curricula and programs for training drivers of vehicles of the relevant category.

2. It is allowed to independently prepare drivers to receive the right to control the categories "A" and "B" in the amount of relevant programs.

3. Typical programs for training drivers of vehicles of relevant categories are developed by authorized by the federal executive bodies in the manner determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Article 27. Receiving the right to managing vehicles

1. The right to managing vehicles is provided to citizens who have surrendered qualifying exams under the conditions listed in Article 25 of this Federal Law.

2. The right to control vehicles is confirmed by the relevant certificate. On the territory of the Russian Federation there are national and international driving licenses that meet the requirements of international treaties of the Russian Federation.

3. The procedure for the delivery of qualification exams and issuing driver's licensions is established by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Article 28. Grounds of termination of the right to managing vehicles

1. The grounds for termination of the right to control vehicles are:

the expiration of the deadline for the driver's license;

the worsening of the driver's health that prevents the safe management of vehicles confirmed by medical conclusion;

deprivation of the right to managing vehicles.

2. Types of offenses that are ledging as a measure of responsibility, deprivation of the right to managing vehicles or limitation of such a right is established by federal law.

Article 29. Training of citizens by the rules of safe conduct on roads

1. Training of citizens by the rules of safe conduct on the roads are carried out in pre-school, general education, special educational institutions of various organizational and legal forms that have licensed to carry out educational activities in the prescribed manner.

2. Training of citizens by the rules of safe conduct on roads are carried out in accordance with the type programs and methodological recommendations developed jointly by the federal executive bodies that carry out management, respectively, in the field of transport, education, health care and social protection of the population.

3. Provisions on the obligatory training of citizens by the rules of safe conduct on roads are included in the relevant federal state educational standards.

(as amended by Federal Law of 01.12.2007 N 309-FZ)

4. The internal affairs bodies of the Russian Federation and state media are obliged to assist the relevant executive bodies in conducting measures to train citizens by the rules of safe conduct on roads.

Chapter V. State Supervision and Control in the Area

Road safety

Article 30. State oversight and control of road safety

1. State supervision and control of road safety is organized and carried out in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation and the legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

2. State supervision and control are carried out in order to ensure compliance with the legislation of the Russian Federation and the legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, rules, standards, technical standards and other regulatory documents in a part relating to the safety of road traffic.

Chapter VI. Responsibility for violation of legislation

The Russian Federation on Road Safety

Article 31. Responsibility for violation of the legislation of the Russian Federation on road safety

Violation of the legislation of the Russian Federation on road safety entails in the prescribed manner disciplinary, administrative, criminal and other responsibility.

Chapter VII. International treaties of the Russian Federation

Article 32. International treaties of the Russian Federation

If other rules have been established by the International Treaty of the Russian Federation than those provided for by this Federal Law, the rules of the International Treaty of the Russian Federation are applied.

Chapter VIII. FINAL PROVISIONS

Article 33. Entry into force of this Federal Law

1. This federal law enters into force on the day of its official publication.

2. Suggest to the President of the Russian Federation and to entrust the Government of the Russian Federation to bring its regulatory legal acts in line with this Federal Law.

The Government of the Russian Federation is to bring the federal executive authorities to their regulatory legal acts in accordance with this Federal Law.

3. Regulatory legal acts governing road safety issues that have been involved in the entry into force of this federal law are applied in part not contrary to this federal law.

The president

Russian Federation

Moscow Kremlin

THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

THE FEDERAL LAW

About road safety

Adopted

State Duma

(as amended by federal laws from 02.03.1999 N 41-FZ,

dated 25.04.2002 N 41-FZ, from 10.01.2003 N 15-ФЗ,

from 22.08.2004 N 122-FZ, from 18.12.2006 N 232-FZ,

from 08.11.2007 N 257-FZ, from 01.12.2007 N 309-FZ,

from 12/30/2008 N 313-FZ, from 25.11.2009 N 267-FZ,

from 07/23/2010 N 169-FZ, from 07.27.2010 N 227-FZ)

Chapter I. General

Article 1. Objectives of this Federal Law

This federal law defines the legal basis for ensuring road safety in the Russian Federation.

Article 2. Basic Terms

The following main terms apply for the purposes of this Federal Law:

road traffic - a set of public relations arising in the process of moving people and cargo using vehicles or without anywhere within the road;

road safety is the state of this process, reflecting the degree of security of its participants from road traffic accidents and their consequences;

ensuring road safety - activities aimed at preventing the causes of road accidents, a decrease in the severity of their consequences;

member of the Road - a person who is directly involved in the process of road traffic as a driver of a vehicle, a pedestrian, a vehicle passenger;

road organization - a complex of organizational and legal, organizational and technical measures and administrative actions to control the movement on the roads;

vehicle - a device intended for transportation on the roads of people, cargo or equipment installed on it.

Article 3. Basic principles