The year 2016 will probably bring several innovations in road law. In addition to the already known increase in speed allowance, on some sections of the 1st class road section with direction departments the third reading in the Chamber of Deputies passed another amendment, which, for example, regulates the pedestrian duties and extends the powers of the police.
Benefits for the driver do not bring this novelty much, so if you do not consider this the responsibility of pedestrians to wear reflective tape on clothing, if they are out of sight on the road outside the village. The goal here is to increase safety; the idea is that we will no longer meet the pedestrian in black clothes going in the darkness of the road because such a pedestrian can be seen for the last few meters. Failure to comply with such an obligation will result in a penalty of up to two thousand crowns in place. Whether a pedestrian from a police officer "included" also gets a reflective strip on his sleeve is not known.
Allegedly, against the falling snow and ice from the roofs of trucks, the order is that the driver will have to clean the car from snow and ice before going out on the road. A reasonable car driver does so now, and the regulation does not need it because he does not want to see the car out of the road. Whether a ladder and a long broom are added to the obligatory equipment of trucks, so as to remove the snow from the roof, so the policeman can look up the roof, we do not know. Theoretically, however, you will not come across a car on the road, from which the snowy windshield of your windshield will flow out of its unending roof. However, the word "theoretically" is essential.
The aforementioned extension of police powers is that it will once again be apprehended with the possibility to withdraw the vehicle registration certificate, a so-called small technical license, if the car is obviously in a non-compliant technical condition. He will allegedly be able to do so when he discovers a "dangerous defect" in a roadside inspection. Examples speak of used tires or poorly functioning brakes, and the police officer will have to give an exact reason.
Used tires, more precisely those that have less than the prescribed tread depth, are already fined today, so the police are already carrying dips. However, how it will test the braking performance on the road will be interesting. Technical inspection stations have special measuring instruments for the brakes, and they will not carry the police cars with them anymore. The goal is to not run dangerous cars on the roads. Such a goal can be understood, but for the same purpose, the police have the authority to send the car to the MOT when their condition appears to be inconvenient. The STK is the only place that is able to judge whether a car is operational, so every two years we have to drive with our cars at our own expense.
The police in safety clothing had the authority to withdraw ORVs earlier, which is not a complete novelty. She disappeared 15 years ago and is now returning - and the policeman partly makes a judge. He also gives him an instrument that can be misused to pressure the alleged offender to pay a fine on the spot, even if he disagrees with it and wants to move the case to administrative proceedings. That we do not like such an extension of our powers in view of possible negative consequences, we certainly do not have to deliver.
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