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GOVERNMENT        SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
No. 36-CP         Independence-Freedom-Happiness

                  Hanoi, 29 May 1995

On behalf of the Government

The Prime Minister

VO VAN KIET

DECREE No.36-CP ON THE 29TH OF MAY 1995 OF THE GOVERNMENT ON
ENSURING TRAFFIC ORDER AND SAFETY ON ROADS AND IN URBAN
CENTRES

THE GOVERNMENT

Pursuant to the Law on Organisation of the Government on the
30th of September 1992:

At the proposal of the Minister of Communication and
Transport and the Minister of the Interior.

DECREES:

Chapter I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1.- To issue, enclosed with this Decree, the
Regulations on Traffic Order and Safety on Roads and in
Urban Centres; to define the task and powers of the
Ministries, branches and the People's Committees of the
provinces and cities directly under the Central Government
in ensuring traffic order and safety on roads and in urban
centres.

Article 2.- The State agencies, economic organisations,
social organisations, the armed forces units, and everybody
have to strictly observe the law on traffic order and safety
on roads and in urban centres.

All foreign organisations and individuals working and
residing on Vietnamese territory have to scrupulously
observe all regulations on traffic order and safety on roads
and in urban centres.

Article 3.- The Vietnam Fatherland Front and its member
organisations within the purview of their task and powers
have to implement the regulations on traffic order and
safety on roads and in urban centres, educate and encourage
the people in doing so, and supervise their implementation.

Article 4. -

1. Any violations of traffic order and safety on roads and
in urban centres must be handled strictly, against the right
persons, on the right counts and in accordance with law. Any
offenders must be handled depending on the character and
extent of the offence, whether they are pedestrians or
drivers of rudimentary means or motorised vehicles. The
principle that everybody is equal before law shall apply.
With regard to those vehicles driven by hired drivers, the
responsibility of the driver and the owner of the vehicle
should be made clear.

2. Those who take advantage of an accident to pressurise one
party or the other, or obstruct its handling, must also be
handled according to law.

3. Those who are assigned the task of ensuring traffic order
and safety on roads and in urban centres such as patrol and
supervision, handling violations, granting driver licenses
and circulation permits, checking technical safety,
registering vehicles ... and who fail to fulfil their task,
demand bribe or cause trouble, shall be severely handled by
law.

Chapter II


STATE  MANAGEMENT OF TRAFFIC ORDER AND SAFETY ON ROADS AND
IN URBAN CENTRES

Article 5.- The task, responsibility and powers of the
Ministry of Communications and Transport:

1. Issuing the technical norms for road projects and the
regulations for their use with the aim of ensuring traffic
safety; conducting periodical inspections of road projects
and issuing timely notices to ensure safety for road users.

2. Defining the technical norms for and organising careful
inspection and control of the technical quality of overland
transport means, and periodically issuing circulation
permits.

3. Defining the conditions, standards and procedure for
granting operating permits to the establishments assigned to
conduct periodical technical inspection of overland
transport means.

4. Managing the training and the granting of certificates
and driver licenses to drivers of overland transport means.

5. Organising, directing and checking the system of
inspection and defence of roads nationwide. Imposing
administrative sanctions within its powers on violations of
the Ordinance on the Protection of Road Projects.

6. Cooperating with the Ministry of the Interior in
monitoring and analysing the causes of traffic accidents in
order to take efficient measures to prevent accidents.

7. Working with the Ministries concerned to draft documents
and other papers on traffic regulations for popularisation
to the general public.

8. Working with the Ministry of the Interior in putting up
traffic signs and traffic lights, marking traffic lines and
lanes, zebra crossings, no parking, no stop signs on roads
and streets.

9. Closely directing the State managing agencies in the land
communications and transport service to assume, manage and
implement the tasks transferred by the Ministry of the
Interior to the Ministry of Communications and Transport in
order to avoid affecting the normal activities of the owners
of means of transport.

Article 6. - Tasks and powers of the Ministry of the
Interior:

1. Organising the inspection, registration and management
of motorised overland transport means and the drivers in the
police force. Organising the registration and the granting
of number plates for the means of transport on roads
including the motorised vehicles of the economic enterprises
of the Ministry of Defence founded in accordance with Decree
No.388-HDBT, except those vehicles used for military
purposes. Making timely notices to the communications and
transport service for monitoring and management.

2. Organising the inspection, supervision and handling of
violations of traffic order and safety on roads and in urban
centres.

3. Establishing traffic control stations. Defining the tasks
and powers of these stations.

4. Organising. directing and controlling traffic in urban
centres and vital road intersections; in case of emergency,
the Ministry can mark traffic lines and lanes and temporary
signs for no parking and no stop.

5. Organising investigation and handling of traffic
accidents. Working with the Ministry of Communications and
Transport to register, monitor, analyse traffic accidents
and draw conclusions on their causes, suggesting and the
implementation of measures to prevent traffic accidents.

6. Defining the technical norms and issuing permits for the
transport of toxic and inflammable substances and
explosives.

7. Organising inspection of the implementation of the tasks
of the traffic police in ensuring traffic order and safety
on roads and in urban centres.

Article 7.- The tasks and powers of the Ministry of Defence:

1. Organising the inspection, registration and management of
the motorised vehicles and drivers belonging to the Ministry
of Defence (except those vehicles used for economic
activities which are registered and issued number plates by
the Ministry of the Interior.)

2. All motorised vehicles and drivers under the control of
the Ministry of Defence when driving on roads must observe
traffic regulations and are subject to the inspection and
control by the forces assigned to ensure traffic order and
safety on roads and in urban centres.

Article 8.- Tasks and powers of the Ministry of Finance:

1. Presiding over and in cooperation with the Ministry of
the Interior, the Ministry of Communications and Transport
and the branches concerned to guide and organise the
collection of fines for administrative offences.

a/ Issuing and managing uniform receipts and vouchers
concerning the collection of fines for administrative
offences.

b/ As from the 1st of August 1995, the persons authorised to
impose fines for administrative offences shall not directly
collect the fines.

c/ Any organisations and individuals who are fined for
administrative offences must pay the fines at the designated
places.

All payments for fines of administrative offences must be
remitted to the State budget.

d/ Organising convenient places along the roads to collect
fines for administrative offences.

2. In drafting their annual budgets, putting aside a fund
for the maintenance of traffic order and safety as proposed
by the Ministry of Communications and Transport, the
Ministry of the Interior, and the People's Committees of the
provinces and cities directly under the Central Government.

3. Guiding the management and use of fines: all the fines
for administrative offences in traffic order and safety
shall be used for the maintenance of traffic order and
safety as planned.

4. Organising the inspection and control of the management
and use of the payments collected from fines as stipulated.

Article 9. - Tasks and powers of the Ministry of Trade:

In making its annual plan for the importation of means of
transport, it must get the approval in writing, of the
Ministry of Communications and Transport concerning the
quantity and categories to be imported in accordance with
set technical standards and the present state of roads and
bridges.

Article 10. - Tasks and powers of the Ministry of Culture and
Information:

Directing the culture and information services, the central
and local press to regularly popularise the law on traffic
order and safety.

Article 11. - Tasks and powers of the radio broadcasting and
TV stations:

The Voice of Vietnam Radio, the Vietnam Television Station,
and the local radio and TV stations should reserve a proper
time length for the popularisation of traffic order and
safety free of charge.

Article 12. - Tasks and powers of the Ministry of Education
and Training:

1. Presiding over the compilation, and in cooperation with
the Ministry of Communications and Transport and the
Ministry of the Interior to compile text-books on traffic
safety regulations for inclusion in the curricula of all
schools from kindergartens to Universities, and books on
traffic safety regulations.

2. Collaboration, with the Ministry of Communications and
Transport in managing driving schools.

Article 13 - Tasks and powers of the Ministry of
Construction:

1. In making architectural designs and plans and building
towns and residential quarters, it must reserve the
necessary space for roads and support facilities to ensure
traffic order and safety in towns.

2. In granting permits for the building of residential
quarters, hotels, shopping malls, office buildings, schools,
rest and recreation centres ... it must reserve space for
parking areas as required by each project. It is forbidden
to park on road beds or pavements.

Article 14- Tasks and powers of the People's Committees of
the provinces and cities directly under the Central
Government:

1. Directing and taking all necessary measures to establish
traffic order and safety in their localities.

2. Clearing the road beds and pavements which have been
illegally occupied so that the pavements are used only by
pedestrians, and the road beds only for the traffic of
motorised and non-motorised means. Making concrete
stipulations on the use of the inner part of the pavements
on a number of specific streets for trading without
affecting traffic order and safety.

3. Together with the Ministry of Communications and
Transport, making an urgent plan to build and broaden the
roads at the bottlenecks which are likely to cause traffic
congestion.

4. Directing the People's Committees at the lower level to
plan and arrange convenient market-places and places for
trading activities for the people without affecting traffic
order and safety.

5. The renting of pavements and road-beds for trading in any
forms is strictly banned.

Chapter III

IMPLEMENTATION PROVISIONS

Article 15. - The Minister of Communications and Transport,
the Minister of the Interior, the Minister of Defence, the
Minister of Finance, the Minister of Trade, the Minister of
Justice, the Minister of Education and Training, the
Minister of Construction, the Minister of Culture and
Information, the Directors of radio stations and the
Directors of TV stations, within the purview of their
function and task shall have to guide and organise the
implementation of this Decree.

Article 16. - The Presidents of the People's Committees of
the provinces and cities directly under the Central
Government basing themselves on the situation and
characteristics of their localities shall have to make
detailed regulations and concrete plan to implement this
Decree.

Article 17. - The Ministers, the Heads of the agencies
attached to the Government, and the Presidents of the
People's Committees of the provinces and cities directly
under the Central Government shall have to implement this
Decree.

This Decree takes effect from the 1st of August 1995.

All stipulations made earlier which are contrary to this
Decree are now annulled.

On behalf of the Government

The Prime Minister

VO VAN KIET


REGULATION ON TRAFFIC ORDER AND SAFETY ON ROADS AND IN URBAN
CENTRES

(Issued attached to Decree No.36-CP on the 29th of May 1995
of the Government)

Chapter I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1.-

1. This regulation on traffic order and safety on roads and
in urban centres is aimed at ensuring safety for the
people's lives and the means of transport and other property
of the State and the people.

2. This Regulation applies to the people and means of
transport moving on roads and in urban areas (hereunder
referred to as road users and vehicles) on Vietnamese
territory.

3. Road users and vehicles must strictly observe this 
Regulation.

Article 2.- The technical terms used in this Regulation
should be understood as follows:

1. Road users are the persons who drive or otherwise use a
means of transport; who lead or ride animals; pedestrians;
and workers working on roads and streets.

2. Means of transport are motorised or rudimentary vehicles
and specialised vehicles moving on roads and streets.
Responsible before the law for the means of transport are
the drivers and owners of these means of transport.

3. Road projects include roads, bridges, sewers, tunnels,
pavements, streets, ferry wharfs, bus stations, sewerage
systems, road markers, signs and other support facilities.

4. "Populated areas" are cities, provincial capitals,
district capitals, towns, townships, villages, streets and
other residential quarters crossed by roads.

5 . The basic length of a vehicle is the distance from the
central point of the front axle to the central point of the
back axle.

Article 3.- In case of a traffic accident, the following
stipulations must be observed:

1. Keeping intact the site of the accident and protecting
all related traces. The injured person(s) must be taken to
hospital for timely treatment.

2. Those present at the site of the accident must help and
give first aid to the injured person(s), report it to the
nearest local authorities, and supply truthful information
about the accident to the traffic police for handling in
accordance with law.

3. Other drivers who pass by the site of the accident must
help to carry the injured person(s) to the nearest first aid
station.

4. The vehicle, luggage, goods and other things of the
victim(s) must be carefully protected. Any acts harmful to
the life, vehicles and other property of the victim(s) and
the offender(s) are strictly forbidden. 

5. Those who are directly involved in the accident must be 
present at the site of the accident when the authorities make 
a written record of it.

6. Those who shun the obligation to rescue the victim(s) of
an accident shall be handled according to the current law.

7. The People's Committee of the locality where the accident
takes place must help care for the victim(s), protect the
site of the accident, and promptly report it to the traffic
police so that it may come, make a record, and settle the
consequences.

Chapter II

ROAD AND STREET TRAFFIC PROJECTS

Article 4.- The unit which is assigned to manage road
projects must ensure the technical safety and technical
standards of the projects, and put up all the necessary road
markers, signs and warnings to ensure traffic safety. When
any damage to a road project likely to threaten traffic
safety is detected, the unit must take prompt measures to
handle it, to guide traffic and prevent accidents, and must
be responsible for any accident due to the poor technical
standard of the project.

Article 5.- On dangerous passes, along accident-prone road
sections, and usually flooded road sections, the unit in
charge of road projects must take special measures to ensure
traffic safety In the rainy, storm and flood season, it must
give traffic guidance and when necessary promptly close a
road as stipulated by the Ministry of Communications and
Transport.

Article 6.-

1. When road users detect a sign that threatens traffic
safety, they must put up a temporary warning, and report it
to the local administration or the nearest unit in charge of
road projects.

2. Upon receiving, the news, the unit in charge of road
projects must take measures to settle it in order to ensure
safety and uninterrupted traffic.

Article 7. -

1. Any act that damages, alters, removes or covers road
signs, or affects the drivers' view and thus threatens
traffic safety, is strictly forbidden.

2. The planting of trees along road sides, traffic islands
and pavements must be done as stipulated without affecting
the drivers' view or covering any road signs. The trees
planted along the road protection corridors must be
short-term, low-trunked trees. The Ministry of Communication
and Transport shall discuss with the Ministry of Forestry
and the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry in making
detailed stipulations on the planting of trees along roads
and streets.

Article 8. -

1. The units assigned to build projects along the roads must
have a permit from the traffic control agency, and must
report it to the unit directly in charge of the roads.

2. These units can start their construction work only after
taking measures to ensure traffic safety.

Article 9. -

1. If the units concerned must close the road from traffic
to do their work, they must make a detour around it to keep
traffic uninterrupted and ensure its safety.

2. Where there is no detour, they must use only one side of
the road and leave the other side open to traffic to ensure
its safety.

3. When these units want to repair a road leading to a ferry
crossing, they must also keep clear of one side of the road
to facilitate safe embarkation and disembarkation.

4. At narrow road sections, these units must do their work
while making way for coming vehicles; at both sides of a
bridge, sluice-gate or tunnel under construction, they must
assign someone to guide and control traffic in order to
ensure safe and uninterrupted traffic.

Article 10. -

1. At both sides of a road section which must be closed to
traffic, the work team must put up all the necessary signs
as stipulated by the regulations on road traffic signs, must
put up barriers, and put on a red light at night.

2. In case there are workers working on the road bed, or
there is an unfinished road project, or any obstacle that
might cause an accident to the vehicles and drivers, the
work team must put up road signs and mobile road markers.
When construction work is finished and there is no longer
any danger to passing vehicles and drivers, the work team
must remove immediately the road warnings and barriers to
ensure uninterrupted traffic to the vehicles and drivers. It
must report to the road control agency to come and inspect 
it and approve of traffic clearance.

Article 11. -

1. The specialised vehicles and machines which are used in
construction work on the road bed must fully meet the safety
standards. The Ministry of Communications and Transport
shall make concrete stipulations for the safety of the
specialised vehicles and machines, such as size limits,
paint colours, lights, road warnings and number plates ...
to distinguish them from transport vehicles.

2. Those workers working on the road bed must wear overalls
with special colours as stipulated by the Ministry of
Communications and Transport.

Article 12. - All vehicles, machines, materials, earth and
rock used in construction must be kept within the
construction site; materials, earth and rock should not be
left scattered on the road bed, which may cause danger to
the drivers and vehicles in traffic. On narrow road sections
which do not allow two vehicles to cross in opposite
direction, no materials must be left on the road bed.

Chapter III

VEHICLES IN TRAFFIC

Article 13.- All vehicles joining in traffic must ensure the
technical conditions for safety:

1. With regard to motorised vehicles (including trailers):

- The maximum size for motorised vehicles: 2.5m in width
(including any bulging part), 3.5m in height (including
freight), and 1.95m in basic length.

- They must be equipped with an effective brake system (both
foot and hand brakes) as stipulated.

- With complete headlights (for near and far lighting),
number plate light, brake light, and traffic indicators as
stipulated.

- Horns with the required sound level.

- A silencer and exhaust-pipe as required.

- A transparent windscreen wing-mirrors and windscreen
wipers to give the driver a clear view.

- An effective steering wheel. All right-hand drive vehicles
are banned from traffic.

- Tyres of the required size, and the technical standards
and air pressure as stipulated for each type of vehicles.

2. With regard to rudimentary vehicles:

- They must have the size, model, materials and structure
made according to the approved designs.

- Equipped with an effective brake. All brakes applied
against the road surface are banned.

- A durable and effective handle for driving. 

3. The Ministry of Communications and Transport shall 
stipulate the concrete technical safety standards for each 
type of vehicle.

Article 14.-

1. All motorised vehicles in traffic on roads and streets
must be registered and fitted with a national number plate
as stipulated by the State managing agency. The owners of
motor vehicles bear responsibility before law for the
validity and legitimacy of the papers showing their
ownership of the vehicles for which they apply for the issue
of number plates.

2. The Ministry of the Interior shall stipulate in detail
how motorised vehicles are registered and issued with number
plates.

3. Depending on the requirement of each locality for
management of rudimentary vehicles, the People's Committees
of the provinces and cities directly under the Central
Government (hereunder referred to as the provincial People's
Committee) shall stipulate how carts are registered and
fitted with local number plates.

Article 15.-

1. The manufacture and assembly of vehicles in the country
must comply with the designs ratified by the authorised
agency of the Ministry of Communications and Transport, and
the products must be put to the quality control process.

2. The vehicle manufacturing and assembling workshops must
apply for an operating license and must register the
technical quality of their products as required by the
technical standards set for vehicles operating on roads.

Article 16.-

1. Whenever the owners of motorised vehicles want to change
the purpose of the use of their vehicles, transform the form
or change the structure of their vehicles, or replace the
main component parts with new ones which lead to the change
of the brand-name and the technical standards as compared
with the original vehicle (referred to as improved or
transformed version), then they must apply for a permit from
the authorised agency of the Ministry of Communications and
Transport.

2. The improvement or transformation of motorised vehicles
must comply with the design ratified and other stipulations
written in the permit.

3. Those workshops which offer to improve or transform
motorised vehicles must be fully qualified for the granting
of a license, and must ensure the technical quality of the
vehicles so improved or transformed as required by the
technical standards for motorised vehicles operating on
roads.

Article 17.-

1. The motorised vehicles circulating on roads and streets
must strictly observe the regime of periodical technical
maintenance, regular repair, and periodical technical
inspection as stipulated by the Ministry of Communications
and Transport.

2. Between two technical inspections, the owners and the
drivers of motorised vehicles must ensure that their
vehicles fully meet the technical standards for operation on
roads, and must bear full responsibility for any accident
that may be caused by poor technical standards.

3. Any motorised vehicles and specialised equipment which
fail to meet the required technical standards shall be
banned from circulation on roads.

4. The hiring or rental of component and spare parts to
temporarily ensure the required technical standards of
motorised vehicles for technical inspection is strictly
banned.

Article 18.-

1. The establishments for technical control motorised
vehicles must be fully qualified to be granted a license by
the Ministry of Communications and Transport, must effect
technical control according, to schedule and standards set
by the Ministry of Communications and Transport, can collect
fees for technical control as stipulated by the State, and
must bear responsibility for the reliability of the
equipment and the accuracy of the results of the control.

2. The head of an establishment for technical control of
vehicles must bear responsibility before law for the results
of the control.

Article 19.-

1. The caterpillars, super-large and super-weight vehicles
which operate on roads for public traffic must apply for a
special permit from the State managing agency in charge of
roads, and must strictly observe the time limit, the traffic
lane and other stipulations written in the permit.

2. The owners and the drivers of caterpillars, super-large
and super-weight vehicles must be subject to control by the
road managing agency of the weight and size of the freight,
and must pay for the expenses incurred in strengthening and
protecting the road as stipulated.

3. If a vehicle is found to be larger than the prescribed
level or to a freight heavier than the prescribed level, the
driver must reduce the weight, rearrange the freight and
take care of the part of the freight that is removed from
the vehicle, and pay a fine as stipulated before continuing
to proceed.

4. The temporary removal of freight or any other trick to
evade detection of excess weight or excess size is strictly
forbidden.

Article 20.-

1. All vehicles are banned from carrying more freight and
more passengers (including luggage) than their design
freight capacity.

2. All vehicles are banned from carrying freight beyond the
frame allowed for each type of vehicles as stipulated in
Articles 26, 60 and 61 of this Regulation.

Article 21.-

1. The vehicles which carry toxic or inflammable substances,
explosives or other dangerous substances must apply for a
permit from the authorised State agency for operation on
roads and streets, must have a special badge or sign for
easy recognition by everybody, and must strictly observe the
stipulations on ensuring safety against toxic and
inflammable substances and explosives.

2. The vehicles carrying toxic and inflammable substances,
explosives or other dangerous substances must strictly
observe the guidance written in the permit and must not stop
or park at a crowded place.

3. Passenger vehicles are banned from carrying toxic and
inflammable substances, explosives or other dangerous
substances, smelly animals and things, or any substances
that may affect the health of the passengers.

Article 22.-

1. The vehicles on emergency tasks (rescuing victims of an
accident, coping with dangers, ambulances, fire-engines ...),
police and army vehicles on special tasks must have a
special sign or signal. In performing their task, they must
continually release their signal on the way (honking or
signalling).

2. Upon receiving the signal of those vehicles stipulated in
Item 1 of this Article, all drivers and vehicles in traffic
on roads must quickly give way. If they do not give way and
cause any delay to those vehicles in performing their task
or any traffic accident, the pedestrian or driver concerned
shall be held accountable before law.

Article 23.- The vehicles used in business transport by
various economic sectors, including those of the Armed
Forces and Police, must strictly observe the current
stipulations on the management of transport.

Article 24.- The passenger vehicles:

1. Must embark and disembark passengers at the designated
points.

2. Bus stations and bus parks can be set up only with the
permission of the provincial People s Committees.

3. They may not carry more passengers, freight and luggage
than stipulated in the permit. No one is allowed to sit
beside the drivers of lambrettas and other vehicles driven
by a handle-bar.

4. Passenger buses must not load more freight and luggage
than the size limit set for them.

5. They are forbidden to carry passengers on the roof or on
the exterior frame.

6. They must operate along the routes designated and can
stop to embark or disembark passengers only at the
designated points and stations.

7. They can move on only after all passengers have taken
their seats and all doors have been firmly closed. No one
including the conductors is allowed to stand or sit on the
steps, or to lean or put their hand out of the windows.

8. They are forbidden to open any door or leave anything
sticking out while the vehicle is on the move.

9. The Ministry of Communications and Transport shall issue
licenses and designate the routes for all buses and coaches.

10. A motorbike or moped can take only one pillion passenger
and one under-seven-year-old child (if there is no seat for
this child, the pillion passenger can carry him/her, or let
him/her sit between the driver and the pillion passenger).

Article 25.- All freight trucks are banned from carrying
passengers, except in the following cases:

1 . In case of necessity, they must have a permit from the
provincial or higher agency in charge of road communications
and transport.

2. The military vehicles and police vehicles carrying
officers and men to work; vehicles carrying road-menders.
These vehicles must be made to carry people according to the
ratified design.

3. Freight trucks carrying victims of an accident to
hospital; vehicles used in fighting natural or
enemy-inflicted disasters.

Article 26.-

1. Freight in motorised vehicles must be loaded neatly in
order not to cause inconvenience to the drivers and must be
tied firmly so as to avoid dropping along or being pulled on
the road. Freight should be loaded so that it does not stick
out from the width of the truck. Freight must not stick out
in front or behind more than one-third of the basic length
of the truck.

2. The Ministry of Communications and Transport shall limit
the height of the freight loaded on each type of trucks.

Chapter IV

PEOPLE IN TRAFFIC

Article 27.- 

1. Everybody must keep the roads clean and ensure safety in 
road traffic.

2. No one can use the road bed as drying ground, as storage
for raw materials, as play-ground, training ground, playing
football, or motorbike or bicycle racing ... thus obstructing
traffic. It is forbidden to put roadblocks thus causing
traffic congestion. If necessary, they must apply for a
permit from the agency in charge of communications.

3. It is forbidden to pour luboil or mud on the road
surface, thus causing danger to the drivers and vehicles in
traffic. If a person accidentally pours luboil or mud on the
road surface, he/she must promptly clean it to ensure
traffic safety.

4. The vehicles carrying garbage or construction materials
are banned from dropping them on the road.

Article 28.-

1. Drivers of rudimentary vehicles must understand all the
stipulations on order and safety in road and urban traffic
Any individuals and organisations using rudimentary vehicles
(ox, buffalo or horse carts, cyclos ...) for freight and
passenger transport must apply for a permit from the State
managing agency in communications and transport.

2. Drivers of under-55cc motorcycles must have a paper
issued by the communications and transport branch certifying
that they have learnt traffic regulations.

3. Drivers of above-50cc motorcycles and other motorised
vehicles (except those motorcycles mentioned in Item 2 of
this Article) must have a driving license as stipulated by
current law.

4. All under-sixteen-year-old are banned from driving
motorised vehicles of any kind.

Article 29.- The persons mentioned in the following cases
are banned from driving vehicles of all types:

a/ Those who cannot control the speed due to poor health.

b/ Those who are found to have more than 80mmg of alcohol in
100mml of their blood, or 40mmg of alcohol in 11 of their
breath or other stimulants.

c/ Those who do not have the following prescribed papers:

- A driving license for the type of vehicle concerned (which
requires a driving license). 

- A registration card.

- A permit for circulation (for the vehicles which require
such a permit).

- With regard to freight and passenger vehicles, the drivers
must have other papers relating to the transport of freight
or passengers, such as a transport paper, a permit for the
transport of freight or passengers (including tourists),
insurance cards ... as currently stipulated.

Article 30.-

1. Those who had their driving license withdrawn must pass a
driving test to get a new driving license. 

2. In case a driving license is lost or damaged for justifiable 
reasons, the driver will be granted a new driving license.

Article 31.-

1. Only those driving schools which have the necessary
material and technical facilities and a teaching staff as
stipulated, shall be granted a permit for operation by the
Ministry of Communications and Transport.

2. The organisation of driving tests, the granting of
driving license, and the change of driving licenses shall be
undertaken in a uniform way throughout the country as
stipulated by the Ministry of Communication and Transport.

Chapter V

TRAFFIC REGULATIONS ON ROADS

Article 32.- In driving, the driver must strictly observe
the following stipulations:

a/ Before driving, turning, pausing or stopping, the driver
must indicate it by honking. signalling or stretching his
arm to warn other vehicles and people; to ensure safety for
the passengers and freight in the vehicle.

b/ The driver must always pay attention to the conditions of
the road surface, traffic signs, traffic density and
obstacles on the road in order to drive his vehicle at a
reasonable speed in keeping with its capabilities (brakes,
the weight of the vehicle, passengers or freight in the
vehicle ...) to guard against all danger that may happen.

c/ All types of vehicle (with or without a motor) in traffic
must keep to the right side of the road on the lane marked
for them.

If there are many lanes on the road, the vehicles must
always keep to the lane reserved for them.

Article 33.- The driver must slow down his vehicle speed to
a safe level in the following cases:

- When there is a speed limit sign or an obstacle on the
road.

- When the driver's view is partially blocked.

- When he passes a road crossing, a railway line, a detour,
a narrow road, a bumpy, slippery or sand-covered road.

- When he crosses a narrow bridge or culvert. when he nearly
reaches the top of a slope, or descends a slope.

- When he passes by a school, a crowded place, a residential
quarter with dwelling houses near the road sides.

- When he overtakes a group of pedestrians in march, a
convoy of parked vehicles, or animals moving on or near the
road.

- When he crosses another vehicle moving in the opposite
direction, or when he has already given signal to the
vehicle behind to overtake.

- When he moves close to a tram or bus station where
passengers are boarding or alighting from vehicles.

- When he comes across a super-heavy, super-large vehicle
moving in the opposite direction on a road without partition
line.

- When he changes the direction of his vehicle.

Article 34.- The driver must observe the following speed
limits:

+ Maximum speed:

a/ He must observe the speed limit signs.

b/ In cities, towns and townships (when there are no speed
limit signs), the driver must not drive faster than the
following speeds:

- Cars and taxi-cabs with up to 9 seats 50km/hour.

-Two- or three-wheeled motorcycles and under-3.5 ton trucks:
40km/hour.

- Above-3.5 ton trucks and buses with 10 or more seats:
35km/hour.

- Motorcycles and motorcycles: 30km/hour.

- Super-heavy, super-large truck, truck with trailer, truck
towing a broken down vehicle: 20 km/hour.

c/ Outside populated areas and when there are no speed limit
signs, the driver must not drive faster than the following
speed limits (except on motorways or super-highways reserved
exclusively for motorised vehicles):

- Cars and taxi-cabs with up to 9 seats: 80km/hour.

- Two- and three-wheeled motorcycles, and under-3.5 ton
trucks: 60km/hour motorcyclists must wear helmets.

- Above-3.5 ton trucks and buses with 10 or more seats,
super-large vehicles, trucks towing a trailer or a broken
down vehicle: 50km/hour.

- Mopeds: 40km/hour.

- Motorcycles: 30km/hour.

If a bridge or a road is in poor conditions or there is a
ferry crossing, the agency in charge of communications and
transport can put up signs ordering lower speed limits than
mentioned above.

d/ The maximum speeds for caterpillars and super-large,
super-heavy vehicles shall be stipulated by the Ministry of
Communications and Transport.

+ Minimum speeds:

When there are signs "Minimum speeds" on the road, the
driver must not drive his vehicle slower than the set
minimum speeds.

Article 35.-

   a/ Before turning his vehicle, the driver must:

- Reduce the speed.

- Give a signal.

- Make way to those pedestrians who are walking on the zebra
crossing.

- Keep the vehicle close to the right of the road if he
wants to turn right; if he turns left, he must drive
gradually to the left of the road while taking care to give
way to the vehicles on the right of the road.

- Only after being sure that there is no obstruction or
danger to the pedestrians and other vehicles can he turn his
vehicle.

b/ In populated areas, the driver can turn his vehicle only
at crossroads and where there is a sign allowing U-turn.

c/ No U-turn can be made in the following cases:

- On the pedestrians' crossings.

- On a bridge, under the ramp leading to a bridge, in a
tunnel or within the area of a railway crossing. 

- Where there is a sign banning U-turn.

Article 36.- When backing his vehicle, the driver must:

a/ Look back and back his vehicle only when he is sure there
is no danger.

He must give the necessary signals (horn, traffic lights) to
let the people behind know.

b/ No backing is allowed in the following cases:

- At "no parking"  area and on pedestrians' crossings.

- At crossroads and railway crossings.

- Where the drivers' view is blocked.

- On bridges, under ramps, along sewers or on loose road
sides.

Article 37.-

a/ Conditions for overtaking other vehicles:

When the driver wants to overtake another vehicle, he must
see to it that:

- There is no obstacle in front.

- There is no vehicle coming in the opposite direction.

- The vehicle in front gives no signal that it is to
overtake another vehicle.

- There is a safe distance for overtaking.

Only when the vehicle in front keeps to the right and gives
a signal allowing the overtaking can the driver behind
overtake the vehicle in front on its left side.

b/ When the driver receives a signal from the vehicle behind
asking to overtake:

- He must keep his vehicle to the right of the road, reduce
the speed, and give a signal to the vehicle behind to
overtake. If there is an obstacle in front or if there is no
safety for the overtaking, he must give a signal to let the
driver behind know.

- The driver in front is forbidden to obstruct the vehicle
behind when it signals to ask for overtaking.

c/ Overtaking another vehicle on the right:

The driver can overtake another vehicle on the right-hand
side in the following cases:

- When the vehicle in front is turning left or has signalled
to turn left.

- When there are two or more lanes for traffic in each
direction.

- When streetcar moves in the middle of the road under an
electric wire system.

- When a specialised vehicle is in operation in the middle
of the road.

d/ No overtaking:

No overtaking is allowed in the following cases:

- When there is a sign for "no overtaking".

- On a narrow bridge (with only one lane).

- Under a ramp, on round-abouts, on slope stops and where
the driver's view is blocked.

- When there is another vehicle coming in the opposite
direction.

- When the vehicle in front is signalling to overtake
another vehicle.

- When there is no safety for overtaking due to poor weather
conditions or poor road conditions.

- At railway crossings, at crossroads.

- When there is a convoy of military trucks with a red
banner on the last truck, or when there is a motorcade with
an escort of motorcycle police.

- When passengers are boarding or alighting from a
trolley-bus or a bus.

Article 38.- When two vehicles cross each other in the
opposite direction, both drivers must steer their vehicle to
the right of the road.

On a narrow road section, they must slow down, and if
necessary, one of the two vehicles must pause to let the
other pass.

On a narrow road section passable only to one vehicle and if
there is a siding, the vehicle nearer to the siding must
move into the siding to give way to the other vehicle.

The vehicle which is climbing a slope must give way to the
one descending it.

At night when two motorised vehicles cross each other, they
must switch from the headlight to the non-dazzle headlight
and in a residential quarter, they can use only the
non-dazzle headlight.

Article 39.-

a/ When the driver wants to pause or stop, the driver must
promptly give a signal to pause or stop on the right of the
road or on the right kerb, with the nearest type of the
vehicle no farther that 0.25m from the right side of the
road or the right kerb, so as not to obstruct or cause
danger to traffic.

b/ Where there is a "no parking" sign, the driver can pause
as stipulated in Point a, but he must hold on to the
steering wheel and must not turn off the engine.

c/ The provincial People's Committee shall designate where
to put up a "no parking" sign or to limit pauses and stops
on the vital road sections within the territory of the
province or city.

d/ Trucks which want to pause or stop in a "no parking" area
to unload their freight must have a permit from the traffic
police.

e/ When stopping his vehicle, the driver must carefully
watch in front and behind before opening the door so as not
to cause any danger to other drivers and vehicles.

f/ After stopping his vehicle, the driver must take all the
necessary safety measures before leaving his vehicle.

g/ No pause or stop is permitted in the following cases:

- On the left of a one-way road.

- When the road bed is large enough for only one lane.

- Near the road signs which may be blocked from view.

- On roundabouts and near the end of a slope if both
drivers' view is blocked within 50 meters.

- On pedestrians crossings.

- On a railway track and less than 10 meters from a railway
barrier or less than 20 meters from the outer rail where
there is no barrier (except when the driver has to pause or
stop to let the train pass).

- Within 5 meters of the entrance to a public office or
enterprise.

- On parking lots marked on the road surface for buses.

- On the lids of sewers, the lids of telephone cables, high
voltage lines, and at fire-plugs.

- On a bridge, within 5 meters of a bridgehead, in a tunnel,
and under a ramp.

- Parallel to another pausing or parking vehicle, and along
narrow streets where the driver must pause or stop his
vehicle at least 20 meters from a vehicle on the other side
of the road.

- If a vehicle must pause or stop at a "no parking" place as
mentioned above to perform a public duty, it must have a
permit from the authorised agency.

h/ When a motorised vehicle stops without switching off its
engine, the driver must not leave his vehicle.

i/ When his vehicle breaks down or drops its freight into
the road affecting traffic, the driver must try by all ways
and means to keep his vehicle close to the right of the road
(where there is no "no parking" sign) and remove all the
freight that has been dropped.

Article 40. - When moving close to a crossroads, the driver
must slow down, and signal to other vehicles to make way to
the vehicles coming from the right of the road, except in
the following cases:

a/ At a crossroads with a traffic circle, the vehicles on
the left have the priority.

b/ When seeing the "Stop" sign, the driver must stop on the
right of the road before the "Stop" line, or before the
first painted or nail line of the pedestrians crossings,
without encroaching on these pedestrians crossings.

c/ At those crossroads between a priority road and a
non-priority road, or between a main road and an auxiliary
road, priority is given to those vehicles moving on the
"priority road" and the "main road" no matter what direction
they are coming from.

d/ The priority motorised vehicles (as stipulated in Article
42) are given priority when crossing crossroads no matter
what direction they are coming from.

Article 41.- At a level crossing:

a/ Where a railway line crosses a road, priority belongs to
the train.

b/ Where a railway line passes with barriers on both sides,
when the red light is on or the barrier is closed, all
vehicles including priority vehicles must stop on the right
and at least 3 meters from the barrier.

  c/ Where a railway line crosses a road without barriers,
the drivers must watch for themselves, and if they see a
train coming, they must stop on their right and at least 5
meters from the outer rail.

  Article 42.- Priority to a number of vehicles when they
come to a crossroads:

  a/ The following vehicles shall have the priority to go
before other vehicles when they come to a cross-roads in the
following order:

  1. Fire-engines on the way to extinguish a fire.

  2. Military vehicles, police vehicles on an emergency
mission.

  3. Ambulances carrying patients to an intensive care unit
or on the way to take a patient to hospital (other
ambulances have no priority).

  4. Vehicles assigned the emergency task of protecting
dykes.

  5. A motorcade led by motorcycle escort.

  6. Vehicles assigned the emergency task of keeping
traffic clear.

  7. A funeral procession.

  b/ Those vehicles stipulated in Points 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5,
Item a of this Article in performing their mission are not
subject to speed limits, are permitted to run into the
opposite direction of "one-way" roads, to cross a
cross-roads even when the red light is on, and to enter any
road to cope with an emergency situation, but they must give
out their special signals as stipulated in Point 1, Article
22.

  Article 43.-

  a/ On roads for public traffic, vehicles may run in
convoys, but each convoy must not be longer than 250m in
single file. If there are several convoys, the distance
between two convoys should be at least 100m, and the
distance between two vehicles should be at least 20m (this
does not apply to a motorcade led by a police motorcycle
escort).

  b/ Carts drawn or pushed by people or animals may go in
groups, but each group must not have more than 4 carts, the
distance between two groups should be 25m in single file, and
the distance between two carts should be at least 5m.

  c/ All vehicles are banned from cutting across a convoy of
vehicles, a funeral procession, or a group of people in
march.

Article 44.-

  a/ When coming to ferry crossing, a pontoon bridge, or a
suspension bridge, the vehicles must queue up in an orderly
line as stipulated in order not to block traffic.

b/ When crossing a river on a ferry boat, all passengers
must alight from the vehicles, except the drivers and those
persons too weak to get down.

c/ The motorised vehicles must get onto the ferry boat
before passengers, and they can land only after all
passengers have landed (except those boats which have
separate landings for passengers and vehicles).

d/ The vehicles which have priority over other vehicles in
crossing a river by ferry boat, by a pontoon bridge, or a
suspension bridge are:

1. The vehicles mentioned in Points 1, 2 and 3, Item a,
Article 42, on the priority of passage at a crossroad.

2. The vehicles on dyke protection mission when there is
warning, No.2.

3. A motorcade led by a police motorcycle escort. 

4. A funeral procession.

5. The vehicles assigned the emergency task of keeping
traffic clear.

6. Postal vehicles.

7. The vehicle assigned the emergency task of rescuing the
crops, fighting epidemics, and vehicles carrying fresh
vegetables and foods.

8. Buses.

If the vehicles in the same order of priority come to a
ferry crossing or a pontoon bridge at the same time, those
which come first will go first.

The Ministry of Communications and Transport shall stipulate
the conditions for priority in crossing a river by ferry
boat and by pontoon bridge, and shall issue priority cards
in the appropriate border.

Article 45.-

a/ One vehicle is permitted to tow only one broken-down
vehicle.

The vehicle on tow must be firmly tied to the towing
vehicle.

When one vehicle is towing another vehicle on a slope or in
crossing a river by ferry boat, or by a pontoon bridge or a
suspension bridge, if the brake of the vehicle on tow does
not work or if it is a separate brake, a metal stick should
be used instead of a tow-line.

b/ The vehicle on tow must be manned by a driver and its
steering wheel must be still effective. The vehicle on tow
must not carry any passenger.

c/ A vehicle which is towing a trailer (including small
trailers) is not allowed to tow another vehicle. 

d/ A sign must be put in front of the towing vehicle showing 
that it is in tow.

e/ A motorised vehicle should not tow two- or three-wheeled
motorcycles or pull along anything on the road.

f/ No two- or three-wheeled vehicles with or with out an
engine are allowed to tow or push each other, or to tow
anything on the road.

Article 46. - When learning to drive a motorised vehicle on
a road, the driver must have a permit for learner driver and
a teacher must sit next to him.

Those vehicles driven by learner drivers on roads must apply
for a permit from the authorised agency, must keep to the
route and the area already designated, and must put up the
"learner driver" sign in front and behind the vehicle as
stipulated by the Ministry of Communications and Transport.

Those vehicles used specially for training drivers must be
equipped with an auxiliary brake and side-mirrors for the
teacher to use when necessary.

Article 47. - Cart drivers on the road must keep their carts
close to the right of the road or within the lane reserved
for carts. All carts are forbidden to enter into the lanes
marked for motorised vehicles.

They mist strictly abide by the road signs. They must pause
or stop not more than 0.25m from the road side or the
pavement, and the draught animals must be carefully tied to
the road side.

Cart conductors must remove all the droppings released by
the animals on the road.

Article 48.- The pedestrians must observe the following
regulations:

a/ They must keep close to the right of the road.

b/ At the crossroads with traffic lights or traffic police,
the pedestrians must cross the road on the pedestrians
crossing and obey the traffic lights or the signals given by
the traffic police.

Children under seven years of age must be accompanied by
adults when they cross the road or walk on the road.

Where there is no pedestrians crossing, the pedestrians must
watch carefully and take care of themselves when they cross
the road.

c/ No one is allowed to jump up or down, or cling to a
moving train or vehicle. No one is allowed to leave their
goods scattered on the road bed, or carry it on their back
or by means of a shoulder pole when moving on the road bed.
If they carry things of great length (bamboo trees ...),
they must carry it lengthwise on the right of the road, and
must watch carefully before turning so as not to obstruct
the vehicles and people around.

d/ Before crossing a railway, they must watch carefully and
quickly cross it if there is no train coming; where there is
a barrier and this is already closed, they must cross the
flyover (If any) or must stop at least one meter from the
barrier. Where there is no barrier, they must watch
carefully, and if there is a train coming, they must stop at
least 5 meters from the outer rail.

e/ When there is a group of people marching, it must be
accompanied by a leader, and must keep close to the right of
the road to make way for the vehicles in traffic.

Article 49.-

a/ Animals moving in a herd along the road must be looked
after by a herdsman and must be herded close to the right of
the road.

b/ No animals should be let loose or tied along the road,
including animals used for drawing a cart, carrying a load
or riding.

c/ The person who herds animals on a road must remove all
the droppings released by them on the road.

Chapter VI

TRAFFIC ORDER AND SAFETY IN URBAN AREAS

Article 50.- In addition to abiding by the stipulations in
the articles of the above-mentioned chapters, the drivers
and vehicles moving in urban areas must also observe the
following articles and the detailed stipulations on traffic
order and safety in urban areas issued by the People's
Committees of the provinces and cities directly under the
Central Government.

Article. 51.-

1. The drivers and vehicles moving in urban centres must
abide by the guidance of the urban traffic light system
including hand signals by traffic police: light signals,
road signs, markers, traffic barriers, lines. They must keep
to the lane and the direction of traffic stipulated.

2. No one is allowed to move on when the red light is on at
crossroads or when the traffic police have signalled "Stop".

3. The pedestrians must walk on the pavement, where there is
no pavement, they must walk close to the right of the road.

Article 52.-

1. All types of vehicles must keep to the lane and the route
stipulated, otherwise they must have a permit from the
Communications and Transport Service. 

2. In the streets, the pedestrians and vehicles must observe the
"make way" principle as stipulated in Point a of Article 35, Point 
b of Article 36, and Articles 38, 10, 11 and 12, and the
following principles:

- The pedestrians must make way for vehicles.

- Rudimentary vehicles must make way for motorised vehicles.

- Low-speed vehicles must make way for high-speed vehicles.

Article 53.-

1. The People's Committees of the provinces and cities
directly under the Central Government shall stipulate how to
limit or ban the circulation of Bong Sen vehicles,
lambrettas, cyclos, and carts in urban centres.

2. Coaches are banned from taking passengers on the streets
or outside the designated stations.

Article 54.-

1. All vehicles are banned from using hooter, hooting
continually, and revving the engine hard in all
circumstances (except ambulances, police and military
vehicles on special mission).

2. All vehicles are banned from honking from 10 pm to 5 am.

Article 55.- All vehicles of the urban environment service
can enter all roads and streets and are allowed to operate
from 6 pm to 6 am.

The People's Committees of the provinces and cities directly
under the Central Government shall stipulate the time and
the route for those vehicles carrying earth and construction
materials to operate in urban centres.

Article 56.- All bicycles, mopeds and motorcycles are banned
from zizzagging on the road, causing danger to traffic.

All motorcycle racing is banned unless it is permitted by
the Director of the Public Security Service of the provinces
or cities directly under the Central Government.

All bicycle and motorcycle riders are banned from using an
umbrella.

Article 57.- Cyclists must observe the following
regulations:

a/ They are forbidden to ride in the areas and on the roads
where there is a "no cycling" sign.

b/ They are forbidden to take both hands off the handle-bar,
or pull another bicycle along, must not race or overtake
other vehicles recklessly, or act in any dangerous way on
the road. They must not ride 3 abreast. They are banned from
turning left or right in front of a motorised vehicle.

c/ They can pause or stop only when they are close to the
road side or the pavement or when they come to a crossroads
with the red light or the "stop" signal by traffic police,
and they must stop at the first nail or painted line but not
in the middle of the road so as not to obstruct traffic.

d/ The cyclist is allowed to carry only one pillion person
and one under-seven-year-old child (carried by an adult or
sitting on a separate saddle).

e/ The cyclist and the pillion passenger must not carry
cumbersome loads, or pull or lead an animal along.

f/ Children under 12 years of age should not ride a bicycle
for adult.

g/ A cyclist must not cling to another vehicle (or bicycle).

h/ When the cyclist rides out from his home, from an alley
into the main road, or from the main road into an alley, he
must make way for other vehicles and the pedestrians moving
on the main road.

i/ Cycling on the pavement, on a flower garden or in a park
is forbidden.

Article 58.- On one-way roads, bicycles and cyclos must go
on the right half of the road, and cyclos must go in single
file only. If there is a painted line in the middle of a
one-way road, bicycles and cyclos must go on the right of
the road, and motorised vehicles on the left (except when
they must stop or turn right).

Article 59.-

1. Cyclos must wear a registration plate, and the driver
must have a license issued by the public transport service;
those cyclos which are made to carry passengers must have a
padded seat and a hood for the sake of comfort.

2. Carts must have a bell. At night, they must put up a lamp
in front and a red light or red glass at the rear.

Article 60.-

1. Freight loaded on carts drawn or pushed by man or animal
must not stick out in front or behind more than one-third of
the length of the cart. Freight must not occupy a space
larger than the width of the cart. Freight or luggage loaded
on bicycles should not stick out more than 0.4m on either
side or 1 meter in front or behind. These carts can only
operate according to the time and the routes stipulated in
order not to affect traffic order and safety.

2. When loading freight on these carts even within the
dimensions stipulated, the drivers must put up a red cloth
in daytime and a red light at night or in the evening at
either end of the load sticking, out in front or behind.

3. The workers loading freight into carts from 10 pm to 5
am. in a populated area should not cause any major noise.

Article 61.-

1. Three-wheeled motorised vehicles including lambrettas are
banned from carrying freight and luggage on their roof.

2. Three-wheeled motorised vehicles including
lambrettas are banned from loading freight and luggage
sticking out on either side of their frame.

3. Three-wheeled motorised vehicles including lambrettas are
banned from carrying freight and other things which stick
out more than one-third of their length.

4. No one is allowed to sit next to the driver of a
motorised vehicle driven by a handle-bar.

Article 62.-

1. Streets and pavements can be used only for traffic. The
People's Committees of the provinces and cities directly
under the Central Government shall stipulate in detail the
use of the inner part of pavements on a number of special
roads and streets for the sale of commodities.

2 . People are banned from gathering in large groups on the
pavements and the road beds, thus obstructing traffic. In
case of necessity, such gathering must apply for a permit
from the Director of the Public Security Service of the
provinces and cities directly under the Central Government.

3. Any encroachment on the road beds, the road sides and
pavements for marketing, show and sale of commodities, and
for display of advertisements and storage of materials is
banned.

4. The People's Committees of the provinces and cities
directly under the Central Government shall stipulate in
detail the opening of shops on street pavements at night to
ensure that it does not obstruct traffic and does not affect
the sanitation and scenery of the city.

Article 63.-

1. All public offices, units, organisations and individuals
should not park their vehicles on the pavements and road
beds. In building their headquarters, offices, hotels and
shops, the owners must have a parking lot which must be
approved by the Public Transport Service before they can be
granted the construction permit.

2. In case they have no parking lot, they must have the
vehicles parked at the designated places permitted by the
Director of the Public Security Service of the province or
city directly under the Central Government. The licensing of
parking lots must ensure that traffic is interrupted.

Article 64.- Anyone who wants to have a road bed or pavement
dug up, or use a pavement for storing materials, must apply
for a permit from the Public Transport Service and must
complete the work within the set time. On the main streets,
any construction work can be undertaken only at night from
10 pm to 5 am. In undertaking construction work, the persons
concerned must take measures to ensure safety for vehicles
and pedestrians. After completing the work, they must
restore the road surface and pavement to its original state.

Article 65.- In case trees or lamp-posts fall, electric
transmission lines break, or other incidents occur affecting
traffic, the agencies concerned must promptly handle the
consequences to keep traffic safe and uninterrupted.

Article 66.-

1. No one is allowed to drop garbage, discarded things and
other waste matters into the pavements and streets. The
vehicles carrying faeces, garbage and other waste matters,
lime, earth, sand, pebbles, bricks, coal, cinders ... must be
fully covered so as not to let them drop or raise dust in
the streets. If these things drop, the driver must promptly
remove them.

2. Vehicles carrying earth, sand and waste matter going out
of or coming into a construction site must operate only from
10 pm to 5 am.

3. The head of a construction site is responsible for
cleaning the road to the site before 6 am everyday.

Article 67.-

1. Animals in the streets and on pavements must be led by
their owners and must have a gag over their muzzle.

2. Anyone leading animals inside a city or town must observe
the regulations of the municipal People's Committee.

3. The unleashing of animals in the streets and on pavements
is forbidden.

4. The persons who lead animals must remove all their
droppings in the streets and on pavements.

5. The conductor of an animal-drawn cart must always go
beside their carts, only the driver of a horse-drawn
passenger carriage can sit on his carriage.

Article 68.- The unauthorised removal of sewer lids on the
pavements or on road beds is forbidden. When a pedestrian
sees a sewer lid removed, he/she or those living near it
must put up a warning sign, and report it immediately to the
nearest police station to inform the Public Transport
Service for timely restoration.

Article 69.-

1. It is forbidden to put up advertisements, sign-boards of
shops, placards, posters, and plant trees which may cover
road markers and traffic signals.

2. On crowded streets, it is forbidden to put up
advertisements, placards and posters level to the view of
passers-by that might distract the attention of drivers, and
therefore, affect traffic safety.

Article 70.- The units in charge of traffic control and of
environmental hygiene shall have to keep the streets and
pavements clean, promptly mend damaged places on roads, and
repaint traffic signs to keep traffic safe and
uninterrupted, they must take all the necessary measures to
keep the road surface clean before 6 am every day.

Article 71.-

1. Vehicles using leaded petrol or emitting black smoke
causing environmental pollution are banned from operating.

2. Vehicles moving, in the streets must ensure that they
emit an amount of exhaust and noise at the levels allowed by
the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, and
must be cleaned of dirt and mud.

3. Motorised vehicles without exhaust-pipe are banned from
operation.

Article 72.-

1. At too narrow street sections or crossroads where the
drivers' view may be blocked, the necessary road markers or
signs must be put up, and there must be a pedestrians'
crossing.

2. At the entrance of a shopping centre, a theatre, a school
or a hospital, a pedestrians crossing must be painted to
give convenience to the pedestrians wishing to enter such
buildings.

Chapter VII

FINAL PROVISIONS

Article 73.- The Minister of Communications and Transport
and the Presidents of the People's Committees of the
provinces and cities directly under the Central Government
considering the actual conditions of bridges and roads, and
in furtherance of their powers, shall have to make detailed
stipulations to implement this Regulation.

Article 74.- All earlier regulations on traffic order and
safety on roads and in urban centres which are contrary to
this Regulation are now annulled.

This Regulation takes effect from the 1st of August 1995.

On behalf of the Government,

The Prime Minister

VO VAN KIET

Source: Official Gazette No.15 (15-8-1995) pp.5-19