In Belarus, they will fight car trash under new rules. We're giving you all the details

In Belarus, from November 13, new rules for handling car junk – old cars that owners throw on the roadsides and in the yards of high-rise buildings will work. They will be recognized as ownerless faster, it will become easier to do this, and those who are responsible for the abandoned equipment will no longer be helped by hiding from mail notifications. What is new in the legislation on the issue of auto junk, told in the project “Everything is clear with Marina Karaman” on ONT.

Why do we need to get rid of the car?

First, because of abandoned equipment, utilities often cannot get close to curbs and sidewalks. When the roadway on which the car clutter stands, they decide to repair, the work has to be postponed and wait for evacuation.

Secondly, in the yards of residential areas of our cities there are already not enough parking spaces, and dead equipment occupies them for years. It can interfere with the passage of garbage trucks, ambulances and fire crews.

Thirdly, the body and engine of the standing machine rot, it spreads rust, from it slowly ooze into the soil or on asphalt oil, antifreeze and fuel residues, and from broken batteries - acid.

What kind of cars are considered auto junk?

Just because a car stays in one place for a long time doesn’t make it an auto junk. Streets should be cleared of unused faulty equipment that is in poor condition and unsuitable for participation in traffic. According to the new rules, these are cars, tractors and self-propelled cars that have not gone anywhere for a long time, which have expired more than six months ago and which will definitely not pass it, because they do not meet safety requirements.

The evaluation criteria are also spelled out in the updated decree. In order for the car to be recognized as unoperated, it, in addition to the six-month late inspection, must have no structural elements, or they must be so damaged that it is definitely forbidden to drive with these defects.

Where to complain about junk cars?

You can complain to the service 115.Bel and local administrations. Soon, a list of authorized organizations that will also receive such signals will appear on the Internet.

There are departments in rural and urban administrations that do this.

New norms will change everything. Local executive authorities will be able to empower organizations in their area to deal with such cases. Most likely, these tasks will be shared with them by road, utilities or even operators of parking networks.

What's the deadline?

The timing has also been clarified. The new requirements dictate to the authorized organization to start the procedure of inspection of abandoned vehicles within 10 days after it is found.

The test itself has become wider. Previously, requests for car junk were flown to the traffic police to understand whose good, and to the Belgostekhozvestok to determine whether the car is exploited.

Now, the Transportation Insurance Bureau has appeared on this list - from there, data on insurance of abandoned property for the past two years will be pulled out. And if you need to check the permission of the tractor, trailer to it or self-propelled machine from Minsk, the request for information will fly to Minsktrans.

The services must respond to their requests within 15 calendar days. If the answers confirm that the transport is not exploited, a certificate of who owns it comes from the traffic police, from the Belgostekhozvezda that it was last on the road 3 years ago. Insurers say no one has paid for it in a long time.

After that, the authorized organization sends a letter to the owner of the abandoned property, in which he offers three options for further actions: to bring the car into proper condition, drive it to a paid parking lot or to the yard of a private house, or dispose of it.

Notification of this to the owner is sent by registered letter with notification, and there is also a new feature. 10 days after sending the letter, the owner of the car clutter is considered to be notified of what is required of him by the local authorities. It doesn’t matter if he signed the letter or not.

To choose repair, parking or disposal, the owner of abandoned equipment is given 30 days. The option of simply dragging the car to the next street will not work. Under the new rules, in this case, the proceedings will not even have to begin again. The law opens up three ways to resolve the issue, and transportation to another location is not among them.

Will it be delayed?

It is placed only if the owner of the transport has died, is sick or on a business trip. If everyone is alive and well, after 30 days the car is forcibly evacuated to a paid parking lot.

How does the procedure work?

To ensure that no one has any complaints, a representative of the executive committee or an organization authorized by it must inspect the abandoned equipment in the presence of two independent witnesses or, under the new rules, without them, but recording the inspection on video with sound.

Then the inspection and paid parking. One copy of the act is sent to the owner of the car, if it is installed.

If foreign numbers are installed on the car or there are none at all, the authorized organization will be able to call a service that opens the locks and hoods to get to the wine room. Payment for the call of such specialists will then be charged from the owner of the car along with the cost of paid parking.

After the car is evacuated and driven to a paid parking lot, its owner is given three months to come and collect the property. If no one is, the executive committee submits an application to the court to recognize the equipment as ownerless.

The court makes such a decision, and it is also reported to the owner of the property, if known. Next, the Executive Committee removes the machine from the register and sends for recycling at the expense of the local budget.

If there is no owner's name, that's it. And if there is, then the cost of the tow truck will be charged from him - this is about 300 rubles, parking payment for 3 months is 900 rubles and a state duty for the court.