FRAMEWORK ACT ON FIREFIGHTING SERVICES

CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISION

Article 1(Purpose) #

The purpose of this Act is to prevent, take precautions against, or suppress, fires and to safeguard the lives, physical health, and property of citizens by providing rescue and first-aid services, etc. in times of fires, calamities, disasters, and other emergency situations, thereby contributing to maintaining public peace and order and promoting public welfare.

[This Article Wholly Amended on May 30, 2011]

Article 2(Definitions) #

The terms used in this Act are defined as follows: <Amended on Aug. 3, 2007; Feb. 4, 2010; May 30, 2011; Jan. 28, 2014; Dec. 30, 2014>

1. The term "object of fire service" means any of buildings, vehicles, ships (limited to ships defined in Article 1-2 (1) of the Ship Act and moored at harbors), structures for shipbuilding, forests, and other artificial structures or goods;

2. The term "related area" means a place wherein objects of fire service are located, and adjacent areas that are necessary to prevent, take precautions against, and extinguish, fires and to provide rescue and first-aid services, etc.;

3. The term "interested parties" means owners, managers or occupants of objects of fire service;

4. The term "director general of a firefighting headquarters" means the head of a department taking charge of affairs, such as the prevention, precaution, extinguishment, and investigation of fires, and rescue, first-aid services, etc. in the Special Metropolitan City, a Metropolitan City, a Special Self-Governing City, a Do, or a Special Self-Governing Province (hereinafter referred to as "City/Do");

5. The term "fire brigade" means an organization comprised of the following persons to extinguish fires, and to provide rescue and first-aid services, etc. in times of fires, calamities, disasters, and other emergency situations:

(a) Fire officials prescribed in the Fire Officials Act;

(b) Members of an obligatory firefighting unit appointed under Article 3 of the Act on the Establishment of Obligatory Firefighting Unit;

FRAMEWORK ACT ON FIREFIGHTING SERVICES

Article 1(Purpose) #

Article 2(Definitions) #

Article 2-2(Responsibilities of the State and Local Governments) #

Article 3(Establishment of Fire Agencies) #

Article 3-2(Posting of Fire Officials) #

Article 3-3(Relationship to Other Statutes) #

Article 4(Establishment and Operation of 119 Integrated Situation Offices) #

Article 4-2(Establishment and Operation of Firefighting Information and Communications Networks) #

Article 4-3(Establishment and Operation of Civil Service Centers for Firefighting Technology) #

Article 5(Establishment and Operation of Firefighting Museums) #

Article 6(Establishment and Implementation of Comprehensive Plans for Fire Service Duties) #

Article 7(Establishment and Commemoration of Fire Prevention Day) #

Article 8(Standards for Firefighting Force) #

Article 9(National Subsidies for Firefighting Equipment) #

Article 10(Installation and Management of Fire Extinguishing Water Supply Systems) #

Article 11(Support for Fire Service Duties) #

Article 11-2(Mobilization of Firefighting Forces) #

Article 12 #

Article 13 #

Article 14 #

Article 15 #

Article 16(firefighting Activities) #

Article 16-2(Firefighting Assistance Activities) #

Article 16-3(Life Safety Activities) #

Article 16-4(Purchase of Insurance Policies for Fire Engines) #

Article 16-5(Exemption from Responsibility for Firefighting Activities) #

Article 16-6(Support for Litigation) #

Article 17(Education and Training on Firefighting) #

Article 17-2(Certified Firefighting and Safety Educators) #

Article 17-3(Grounds for Disqualification of Certified Firefighting and Safety Educators) #

Article 17-4(Measures against Persons Engaging in Dishonest Behavior) #

Article 17-5(Posting of Certified Firefighting and Safety Educators) #

Article 17-6(Korea Youth 119 Corps) #

Article 18(Fire Service Signals) #

Article 19(Notification of Fires) #

Article 20(Interested Parties’ Firefighting Activities) #

Article 20-2(Establishment and Operation of In-House Fire Brigade) #

Article 21(Right of Way of Fire Engines) #

Article 21-2(Exclusive Use Areas for Fire Engines) #

Article 21-3(Establishment and Operation of Transport Safety Analysis System for Fire Engines) #

Article 22(Emergency Passage of Fire Brigades) #

Article 23(Establishment of Firefighting Zones) #

Article 24(Orders to Perform Firefighting Activities) #

Article 25(Compulsory Dispositions) #

Article 26(Evacuation Orders) #

Article 27(Urgent Measures for Dangerous Installations) #

Article 27-2(Prevention of Acts of Interference) #

Article 28(Prohibition against Use of Fire Extinguishing Water Supply Systems and Emergency Firefighting Devices) #

Article 29 #

Article 30 #

Article 31 #

Article 32 #

Article 33 #

Article 34(Organization and Operation of Rescue Units and First-Aid Units) #

Article 35 #

Article 36 #

Article 37(Establishment and Operation of Volunteer Fire Brigades) #

Article 38 #

Article 39 #

Article 39-2 #

Article 39-3(Responsibilities of the State) #

Article 39-4 #

Article 39-5(Support for Development of Technology Related to Firefighting Industry) #

Article 39-6(Implementation of Firefighting Technology Research and Development Projects) #

Article 39-7(Projects for Globalization of Firefighting Technology and Firefighting Industry) #

Article 40(Establishment of the Korea Fire Safety Institute) #

Article 40-2(Formulation and Evaluation of Education Plans) #

Article 41(Business Affairs of the Safety Institute) #

Article 42(Management of Members) #

Article 43(Articles of Incorporation of the Safety Institute) #

Article 44(Working Expenses of the Safety Institute) #

Article 44-2(Executive Officers of the Safety Institute) #

Article 44-3(Prohibition of Use of Similar Name) #

Article 45 #

Article 46 #

Article 47 #

Article 48(Supervision) #

Article 49(Delegation of Authority) #

Article 49-2(Indemnification for Loss) #