Article 1 These Enforcement Rules have been incorporated
pursuant to Article 46 of Fire Services Act (the Act).
Article 2 The fire regulating authorities referred in Article 3
of the Act shall refer to National Fire Administration
if the transactions fall within the scope of MOI; or
FireDepartment, within municipal, or county/city
government.
County/city police department shall undertake the
transactions before the establishment of a fire
department by the county/city government.
Article 3 Municipal, county/city government shall develop an
annual plan to undertake fire education and
propaganda from time to time.
Article 4 (deletion)
Article 5 (deletion)
Article 5-1 The content of design, construction supervision,
installation and service of fire safety equipment
that referred in the first paragraph of Article 7
of the Act as follows:
1.Design: It refers to the planning of which type
to use and the quantity of fire safety equipment
and the producing of fire safety drawings.
2.Construction Supervision: It refers to the
verification of what shall be tested or examined
during fire safety equipment construction.
3.Installation: It refers to the function test after
fire safety equipment construction and the
producing of fire safety equipment testing report.
4.Service: It refers to being contracted to examine
fire safety equipment and producing fire safety
equipment examination report of a variety of
places according to the first paragraph of Article
9 of the Act.
Article 6 As provided in Article 9 of the Act, the
administrator
shall conduct periodical inspection and service of
fire safety equipment as follows:
1. Appearance inspection: to check for damage, and
proper allocation through visual inspection of the
appearance.
2. Performance inspection: to check for normal
performance through operation
3. General inspection: to check for the mechanical
capability through the use or operation of the fire
safety equipment as a whole.
For the Class A places regulated in Standard for
Installation of Fire Safety Equipments Based on Use
and Occupancy, the inspections mentioned in the
previous sub-article should be done once every six
months, and for the places other than Class A, the
inspections should be done once every year.
Service item, service criteria and term for
declaration of service results shall be specified by
the central fire regulating authorities.
Article 7 Any application for flameproof certificate pursuant to
Para.3, Article 11 of the Act shall be submitted in
writing together with test sample or related documents
and examination fee to file with the central
regulating authorities and the label of flameproof can
be used by the applicant upon the approval of the
examination.
The central regulating authorities may contract
appropriate institutes, laboratories, and groups for
their assistance in carry out the technical works of
the examination specified in the preceding paragraph.
Receipt and payment of the examination referred in the
first paragraph herein shall be carried out pursuant
to then existing budget procedure and the rates of the
examination fee shall be determined by the central
regulating authorities.
The central regulating authorities shall separately
set forth the operation procedure for the
certification of flameproof performance, approval and
release of flameproof label and flameproof performance
test criteria.
Article 8 (deletion)
Article 9 (deletion)
Article 10 (deletion)
Article 11 (deletion)
Article 12 (deletion)
Article 13 The scope of the building for public use with a
certain scale as referred in Article 13.1 of the Act
includes:
1. Any place a movie is played (theater, cinema
house), show place, dancing hall, night club, club,
bowling house, and Sauna house;
2. Any barbershop (tourism barbershop and AV
barbershop), massage place, MTV and other place
that plays video taped programs, AV place (KTV),
bar and pub with or without waitress;
3. Any tourism hotel, hotel, motel;
4. Any department store, supermarket, mall and
entertainment place having a total floorage not
less than 500 sq.mt.;
5. Any restaurant having a total floorage not less
than 300 sq.mt.;
6. Any hospital, sanitarium, and the aged nursing
home;
7. Any academic institute, and any training school,
cram school having a total floorage not less than
200 sq.mt.;
8. Any industrial facilities or institute employing
not less 30 people and having a total floorage not
less than 500 sq.mt.; and
9. Any other public place designated by the central
regulating authorities.
Article 14 The fire prevent manager in Article 13 of the Act
shall be a staff from the management or the
supervision level and who has been trained and
issued a qualification certificate issued by
municipal, county/city fire department or a
professional training institute approved by the
central regulating authorities.
The training referred in the first paragraph are
first-training and continual-training
respectively.Fire prevent managers shall take
continual-training at least once every three years
after qualification of first-training.
In the training referred in the first paragraph, the
length of first-training shall not be less than
twelve hours and the length of continual-training
shall not be less than six hours.
Article 15 The fire protection plan referred in Article 13 of the
Act shall include but not limited to the following
details:
1. Self-defense fire organization: A fire fighting
squad; a notification squad and an evacuation
leading squad shall be organized in case of not
less than ten (10) persons are employed; and an
additional safety protection squad and a first aid
squad shall be organized, not less than fifty (50)
persons;
2. Voluntary inspection of fire escape facilities:
shall be done at least once each month, and any
flaw found during the inspection shall be reported
to the Administrator to take action for immediate
correction;
3. Administration and maintenance of fire safety
equipment;
4. Fire fighting operation, report and notification,
and evacuation leading in case of fire and any
other hazard;
5. Drill of fire fighting, communication and
evacuation leading: shall be carried out at least
once half a year, with each session not less than
four (4) hours and a prior notice of the drill
shall be served to the local fire department;
6. Education and training of fire prevention and
emergent response;
7. Monitor and control of Fire and electricity
consumption;
8. Arson prevention action;
9. Map of the place, escape route map and layout; and
10. Any other action required in fire prevention and
emergent response action.
In case of improvement, retrofit, repair and interior
decoration work to the building, a fire protection
planshall beseparately developed to monitor the works
of the contractor involving consumption of power and/or
fire.
Article 16 If a joint fire prevention plan shall be produced as
provided in Para.2 of Article 13 of the Act, a
promoter shall be elected among the administrators to
negotiate for the production of the joint fire
prevention plan and the agreement shall be documented
in the plan. Items to be included in the plan shall be
separately set forth by the central regulating
authorities.
In the failure to elect such a promoter among the
administrators, the administrators may request the
municipal, county/city fire department to appoint one.
Article 17 Any fire ignition in the wild land and/or mountain
shall be limited to the purpose of land development,
land preparation and/or extermination of hazardous
insects.
If the fire ignition referred in the preceding
paragraph herein presents risk of fire extension or is
made within a forest or a forest conservation area, a
fire ignition shall be filed no later than five (5)
days before the planned ignition with the local fire
department.Upon the approval, a 3m wide fire security
belt shall be erected in the peripheral of the
ignition point, where proper fire control equipment
shall be made available; and the date, time and place
of ignition shall be separately notified to all owners
or managers of the properties abutted to the fire
ignition point. The forestry regulating authorities
shall be notified if the ignition point is located in
a forest or a forest conservation area.
The ignition referred in the preceding paragraph shall
be made at a time between six a.m. and six p.m. The
ignition shall be attended and the attendant shall be
permitted to leave the site only after having
made sure that the fire has been extinguished.
Article 18 (deletion)
Article 19-1 The term " reporting to the district fire department
regularly" referred to in Para.1 of Article 15-2 of
the Act shall refer to reporting to the district
fire department in each April and October.
Article 19-2 The safety technicians, as stated in Subparagraph 5,
Paragraph 1, Article 15-2 of this Act, shall
receive qualification through training seminars
held by the special municipal or county/city fire
departments or by professional institutions
recognized by the Central Fire Administration
before they are eligible.
The training time of the seminars mentioned in the
previous paragraph shall not be less than 16 hours.
Safety technicians shall receive a refresher
training every other year, and each
refresher training time shall not be less than 8
hours.
Article 19-3 The customer safety inspection documents, as stated
in Subparagraph 6, Paragraph 1, Article 15-2 of this
Act, include address of user, test items, and
Article 20 The fire hydrant established pursuant to Article 17 of
the Act shall be of the ground dividing breeching
type unless otherwise specified. The location of the
hydrant shall be clearly marked and the specification
of the hydrant shall be set forth by the
central regulating authorities.
The local water supply company shall maintain and
protect the fire hydrant pursuant to Article 17 of
the Act. The municipal, county/city fire department
shall join the local water supply company to
periodically carry out a comprehensive test of the
performance of the hydrant to keep it in usable
condition.
Article 21 A reservoir and other fire water sources shall be
erected or repaired as applicable by the municipal,
county/city government in the area within its
jurisdiction where tap water is not supplied or in
shortage of hydrant; and such reservoir or fire water
sources shall be put under control by the local fire
department.
Article 22 Civil utilities including power, gas and water
supplies within the jurisdiction of a municipal,
county/city government shall designate a unit
authorized to promptly collect water supply or
cut off the power supply and/or gas supply as
applicable when notified by the commander of the fire
department pursuant to Article 21 and 22 of the Act.
Article 23 Once the fire line is defined by the fire commander,
municipal, county/city fire department under Articles
20 and 23 of the Act, local police station or precinct
may be notified to coordinate in maintaining the fire
line.
Article 24 Any claim for damages under Article 32 of the Act
shall be made in writing and filed with the local
regulating authorities.
The fire regulating authorities upon receiving the
claim shall promptly negotiate with the claimant for
settlement, which shall be made in a written
agreement.
Article 25 The municipal, county/city fire department upon
completing the investigation and determination of the
cause of the fire pursuant to Para.1 of Article 26 of
the Act shall immediately present a written report to
the local police department to follow up as
provided by the law.
To investigate and determine the cause of fires, the
municipal, county/city government may request the
coordination from the local police authorities.
The fire investigation report referred in the first
paragraph herein shall be produced within fifteen (15)
days upon the fire incident and may be extended for
another fifteen (15) days if required.
Article 26 Prosecutors office, police or fire authorities may
blockade the site of the fire and lift the blockade
upon completing the fire investigation and
determination.
The site of fire shall be kept integral before the
completion of the fire investigation and
determination. No one is permitted to enter into the
site or make any change of the site unless authorized
by those who are in charge of the investigation and
determination. In case of emergency or the entry is
absolutely required, such entry shall be always
accompanied by the investigation and determination
personnel, and shall be documented in the fire
investigation report.
Article 27 Any victim or anyone having interest in or to the fire
disaster may apply for the issuance of a fire
certificate with the municipal, county/city fire
department.
The certificate referred in the preceding paragraph
herein shall be limited to the certification of the
time and place of the fire has taken place.
Article 28 Fire department of each level may sponsor training and
drill for the fire control, rescue and first aid
personnel, vehicles, sea vessels, aircrafts, and
equipment from the government agencies, public sector
and private sector to cope with the needs of rescue
and first aid.
Article 29 Formats of various forms specified by the Act and the
Rules shall be defined by the central fire regulating
authorities.
Article 30 The Rules shall become effective on and after the date
it is published.