What are prohibited acts in Vietnam under the Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety 2024?
What are prohibited acts in Vietnam under the Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety 2024?
Pursuant to Article 9 of the Road Traffic Order and Safety Law 2024, the acts that are strictly prohibited in Vietnam include:
- Operating a motor vehicle on roads without a driving license as regulated by law.
- Operating a specialized motorcycle on roads without a driving license or a certificate of legal knowledge on road traffic, or a license or certificate for operating specialized motorcycles.
- Operating a vehicle on roads with alcohol concentration in the blood or breath.
- Operating a vehicle on roads while having drugs or other substances in the body prohibited by law.
- Insulting, threatening, obstructing, resisting, or not complying with orders, guidance, examination, or control requests from law enforcement personnel ensuring road traffic order and safety.
- Engaging in or organizing illegal racing, inciting, assisting, or encouraging illegal racing; operating a vehicle on roads with reckless driving, zigzagging, and frequent revving.
- Holding and using mobile phones or other electronic devices by hand when operating a vehicle that is moving on roads.
- Allowing an unqualified person under legal regulations to operate a motor vehicle or specialized motorcycle on the road.
- Bringing motor vehicles or special motorcycles that do not meet technical safety and environmental protection standards, other vehicles that are not qualified under legal regulations to participate in road traffic.
- Importing, manufacturing, or assembling motor vehicles or specialized motorcycles that do not meet legal standards for technical safety and environmental protection.
- Illegally modifying non-passenger cars into passenger vehicles, except for modifications serving national defense and security purposes.
- Unauthorized modifications; intentionally tampering with a vehicle's odometer; cutting, welding, erasing, drilling, altering, or re-engraving chassis or engine numbers of motor vehicles or specialized motorcycles.
- Intentionally interfering with or altering registered vehicle control software to cheat inspection, testing, certification results; renting or borrowing motor vehicle parts just for inspection purposes.
- Carrying goods exceeding the total mass, axle load, permitted dimensions of the vehicle or exceeding road load limits without permission or not meeting the legal requirements.
- Transporting goods on vehicles requiring fastening but not fastening or not conforming to legal regulations.
- Carrying more passengers than legally permitted.
- Transporting banned, illegally transporting goods or not fully complying with legal regulations on transporting dangerous goods, wildlife.
- Threatening, insulting, competing, enticing passengers; threatening, coercing passengers to use unwanted services.
- Offloading, dropping passengers, or other acts to avoid detection of overloaded or over-occupancy vehicles as per legal regulations.
- Installing or using sound and light equipment on motor vehicles or specialized motorcycles that disrupt road traffic order and safety.
- Illegally producing, using, buying, selling license plates; operating motor vehicles or specialized motorcycles with plates not issued by competent state authorities or improperly mounted plate positions.
- Bending, covering license plates; changing characters, numbers, colors, shapes, dimensions of license plates.
- Interrupting or tampering with data from journey monitoring devices or cameras installed on vehicles as regulated.
- Destroying, damaging, or rendering inoperative traffic control and monitoring devices, smart traffic command and control support equipment.
- Illegally placing or leaving obstacles or other impediments on the road; scattering sharp objects, pouring slippery substances; spilling dirt, goods, construction materials, or waste; leaking, discharging chemicals, waste causing road traffic safety hazards.
- Obstructing people or vehicles participating in road traffic; throwing bricks, soil, stones, sand, or other objects at people or vehicles on the road.
- Exploiting or abusing the task of ensuring road traffic order and safety to commit legal violations, harassment, or infringe on the interests of the State, or the lawful rights and interests of organizations and individuals.
- Exploiting one's position, authority, or profession or that of another to violate the law on road traffic order and safety or interfering with the handling process of such violations.
- Using the rights of priority vehicles when not on duty as per legal regulations; installing or using noncompliant priority signal equipment.
- Not declaring, making false declarations, or providing false information or documents to evade responsibility when found violating the law on road traffic order and safety.
- Fleeing after causing a road traffic accident to avoid responsibility; deliberately not assisting victims of road traffic accidents when conditions allow.
- Infringing on the life, health, or property of the victims, the perpetrators of road accidents, or those assisting, rescuing, taking victims for emergency aid.
- Exploiting road traffic accidents to assault, threaten, incite, exert pressure, disrupt, or obstruct the handling of road traffic accidents.
- Operating flying objects, unmanned aircraft, ultralight flying vehicles within the road boundary limits causing obstruction or safety risks except for licensed unmanned aircraft, ultralight vehicles.
- Other acts violating road traffic regulations.
What are prohibited acts in Vietnam under the Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety 2024? (Image from Internet)
What does the road traffic order and safety database in Vietnam consist of?
Pursuant to Article 7 of the Road Traffic Order and Safety Law 2024, the road traffic order and safety database in Vietnam includes:
Article 7. Road Traffic Order and Safety Database
- The road traffic order and safety database includes:
a) Database on registration and management of motor vehicles and specialized motorcycles;
b) Database on the inspection of motor vehicles and specialized motorcycles;
c) Database on training, testing, issuance of driving licenses, certificates of legal knowledge on road traffic;
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Thus, the road traffic order and safety database includes:
- Database on the registration and management of motor vehicles and specialized motorcycles
- Database on the inspection of motor vehicles and specialized motorcycles
- Database on training, testing, and issuance of driving licenses, certificates of legal knowledge on road traffic
- Database on operators of motor vehicles and specialized motorcycles
- Insurance database of motor vehicle and specialized motorcycle owners
- Database on administrative violation handling regarding road traffic order and safety
- Road traffic accident database
- Database on road vehicle journeys, driver images
- Database on the management of driver operating time
- Other databases related to ensuring road traffic order and safety
What are details of international cooperation in road traffic order and safety in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Clause 2 Article 8 of the Road Traffic Order and Safety Law 2024, international cooperation on road traffic order and safety in Vietnam includes:
- Signing international treaties, agreements related to road traffic order and safety
- Exchanging information and transferring technology related to road traffic order and safety
- Training, practicing, and enhancing capacity for forces ensuring road traffic order and safety
- Enhancing material conditions to ensure road traffic order and safety
- Solving road traffic accidents
- Implementing other international cooperation content as per Vietnamese law and related international treaties to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a member.
