Source: https://www.riigiteataja.ee/en/eli/ee/Riigikogu/act/507022018002/consolide
Timestamp: 2018-05-23 14:55:03
Document Index: 416014764

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 941', 'art 05', '§ 16', '§ 13', '§ 16', '§ 311', '§ 202', '§ 1531', '§ 62', '§ 300', '§ 68', '§ 36', '§ 86', '§ 87', '§ 24', '§ 24', '§ 311', '§ 202', '§ 1531', '§ 62', '§ 300', '§ 68', '§ 36', '§ 86', '§ 423', '§ 1541', '§ 1552', '§ 62', '§ 63', '§ 75', '§ 68', '§ 36', '§ 37', '§ 88', '§ 941', '§ 16']

§ 941 Violation of legislation governing use of non-power driven means of transport, motor assisted cycle or other vehicle falling outside the scope of regulation of this Act for carriage of passengers by road for fare
14.06.2017 RT I, 04.07.2017, 2 01.01.2018, in part 05.07.2017
(81) In the event specified in subsection (8) of this section, the council of a rural municipality or city may establish requirements for the carriage of passengers for a fare for the purpose of ensuring the safety and comfort of passengers with regard to a non-power driven means of transport, a motor assisted cycle or another vehicle falling outside the scope of regulation of this Act used for the carriage of passengers by road as well as requirements for the minimum age, right to drive and good repute of the driver performing the carriage of passengers, prescribe that a driver performing the carriage of passengers for a fare must have a service provider card, and establish the requirements and procedure for issuing the card and the form of the service provider card.
[RT I, 11.01.2018, 1 - entry into force 21.01.2018]
(2) Where necessary, the local authority body performs the functions specified in subsection (1) of this section in cooperation with other local authority bodies, the Road Administration and an association of local authorities.
(3) By mutual agreement and by agreement with the Road Administration, local authority bodies may from their own budget and from the earmarked subsidies of the state budget subsidise the county routes that connect their administrative territories and routes that exceed the border of the rural municipality or city, but that are considered rural or urban routes based on subsection 4 (2) of this Act.
(5) The local authority body may allocate a portion of the budgetary funds of the local authority for developing public transport in the county. By agreement with the Road Administration, the local authority body may also subsidise the long-distance routes specified in subsection 16 (2) of this Act.
(2) Where warranted by regional characteristics and the need for more practical management of public transport, local authorities and the state authorise a regional public transport centre to perform under a public law contract relevant functions specified in § 16 of this Act and they may authorise it to perform the functions specified in § 13 and the functions specified in § 16 upon carriage of passengers by ship, pleasure craft, ferry and air, and provide the public transport centre with funds and other resources necessary for the performance of the functions.
3) grants regular service authorisations and approves timetables for carriage of passengers by bus on county route, domestic long-distance route and international route where the function of granting international regular service authorisations has been imposed on the Road Administration on the basis of clause 17 (1) 2) of this Act;
8) manages supervision exercised over compliance with the requirements of an authorisation for a regular service granted by it for the carriage of passengers by public bus and coach, requirements for international regular services (including over compliance with the requirements for an international regular service authorisation granted by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications) where, on the basis of clause 17 (1) 2) of this Act, the function of granting international regular service authorisations has been imposed on the Road Administration, manages supervision exercised over public service contracts awarded for long-distance, county, rural and urban regular bus and coach services, provided that earmarked subsidies are paid from the state budget for the performance of the public service obligation, and manages supervision exercised over the public law contract concluded by it;
3) the Road Administration regarding the carriage of passengers by bus, coach, ship, pleasure craft, ferry or air on county route and on a long-distance route, the carriage of a vehicle and its trailer by water, in international regular bus and coach services, provided that the function of granting international regular service authorisations has been imposed on the Road Administration on the basis of clause 17 (1) 2) of this Act, and regarding the carriage of passengers on an international route by air;
(2) In the case of the carriage of passengers specified in clauses 3) to 6) of subsection (1) of this section, the regional public transport centre may also be the competent authority.
(4) In the event of a county route specified in clause 5) subsection (1) of this section, a public service contract is awarded to the carrier by the government of the rural municipality or city on whose territory the longest part of the county route connecting the bordering local authorities is located or the rural municipality government or city government which is authorised to do so by the agreement of the governments of these local authorities.
(5) Where, as a result of a merger of local authorities, a rural or urban route emerges instead of the former county route, the route is managed and financed until the expiry of the public service contract in force by the competent authority that awarded the contract. At the request of the local authority created as a result of the merger, the rural or urban route created within the boundaries of the merged local authority instead of county route serviced on the basis of a public service contract is managed and funded from the state budget by the Road Administration, the regional public transport centre or the local authority created as a result of the merger to the extent of the regular service volume of the county route serviced on the basis of the public service contract concluded with the Road Administration and to the extent of a reasonable subsidisation rate.
(1) Based on Article 5(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council, the competent authority may, in the event of disruption of the provision of the service or a direct threat thereof, impose the public service obligation, in addition to a carrier carrying passengers by road and rail, also on a carrier carrying passengers and vehicles by ship and ferry, without awarding a public service contract. This measure may be taken only where the renewal of a public service contract specified in clause 21 (3) 1) of this Act or the direct awarding of a public service contract specified in clause 21 (3) 2) of this Act fails.
(3) The competent authority makes a decision to impose a public service obligation within 30 days after the closing date for the submission of the carrier’s opinion and counter-arguments specified in subsection (2) of this section. The competent authority does not impose the public service obligation on compelling grounds.
(4) Where a local authority subsidises county, long-distance or international regular services, the local authority must inform the relevant competent authority specified in clauses 19 (1) 1) to 4) or subsection 19 (2) of this Act.
(2) The procedure specified in subsection (1) of this section regulates the calculation of the need for subsidies, submission of corresponding applications by local authorities and the Road Administration and the consolidation of the applications, planning of the corresponding articles of the draft state budget, distribution of the subsidies allocated in the state budget, the supervision of the use thereof, and the repayment of subsidies.
(4) Within the limits of the maximum price established in accordance with clause 3) of subsection (2) of this section, the Director General of the Road Administration establishes by a directive the price per kilometre or the ticket price regarding the county and long-distance carriage of passengers by bus, coach, ship, pleasure craft, ferry and air on a proposal of the regional transport centre, taking into account the requirements provided by law and the amount of funds allocated from the state budget.
(5) Where the fare is not agreed on before the start of the journey with an automobile having up to nine seats in the case of the carriage of passengers, the price forms on the basis of subsection 28 (2) of the Law of Obligations Act.
(1) The rates of compensation for travel fare concessions paid out of the funds allocated from the state budget in accordance with clause 32 (1) 2) of this Act are prescribed by an Act or another legal instrument adopted on the basis of an Act.
(5) The travel fare concessions specified in subsection (4) of this section may be granted by the rural municipality council or the city council or, where authorised by it, by the rural municipality government or the city government, the minister responsible for the field or a regulation of the Government of the Republic.
2) the Road Administration for the carriage of passengers by bus and coach on a county route, domestic route or international long-distance route where such function has been imposed on the Road Administration on the basis of clause 17 (1) 2) of this Act;
4) by the regional public transport centre on a rural or urban route and a country route where it has been authorised thereto in accordance with the procedure established in subsection (4) or (5) of this section.
(4) On the basis of a directive of the minister responsible for the field a regional public transport centre may be authorised to grant regular service authorisations for county routes and approve timetables. The respective public law contract is concluded by the Road Administration. The regional public transport centre has the right to charge a fee for reviewing an application for an authorisation for a regular service and approval of a timetable, which does not exceed the state fee rate set for reviewing the application for these documents.
(4) The repute of an applicant for and a holder of a Community licence is considered good for the purposes of Article 3(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council where they have not been convicted of a criminal offence of the first degree or, more than once, for a wilful criminal offence of the second degree or for a misdemeanour specified in § 311 of the Road Transport Act, § 202, 204, 208, 210, 217, 220, 225, 244, 252 or 255 of the Traffic Act, § 1531, 154, 1541 or 1552 of the Taxation Act, § 62 or 63 of the Fiscal Marking of Liquid Fuel Act, § 300 of the Aliens Act, §§ 68–70 of the Consumer Protection Act, §§ 36 or 37 of the Language Act, or § 86 or § 87 of this Act. Upon verifying the penalties of an applicant for and a holder of a Community licence, the conviction data obtained from abroad on serious criminal offences specified in Article 6(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council is also taken into account.
(5) The requirement of the good repute of an applicant for and a holder of a Community licence is also fulfilled where they have been convicted of an offence specified in subsection (4) of this section, but the records have been deleted from the criminal records database in accordance with the Criminal Records Database Act or where the term of deletion of the records set out in § 24 of the Criminal Records Database Act has passed from the enforcement of the decision made on the offence committed abroad.
(6) The repute of an applicant for and a holder of a Community licence who has been convicted of an offence specified in subsection (4) of this section may be considered good where, as a result of the proceedings in accordance with the second and third paragraph of Articles 6(2)(a) and (b) of Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council it is found that the loss of good repute would be disproportionate.
(2) Upon verifying the penalties of a transport manager, the criminal records obtained from abroad on serious criminal offences specified in Article 6(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council are taken into account in addition to the records provided for in subsection (1) of this section. In this case the requirement of the good repute of the transport manager is also fulfilled where the transport manager has been convicted of an offence committed abroad, but the term of deletion of the records set out in § 24 of the Criminal Records Database Act has passed from the enforcement of the decision made on the offence.
(3) A transport manager is considered to be professionally competent where the transport manager has completed a passenger transport manager training course organised in an educational institution recognised by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, passed the written final examination of the course and holds a respective training certificate.
(5) A person who, as a self-employed person, manages the carriage of passengers on the basis of a Community licence using an automobile with up to nine seats and also acts as a transport manager is considered professionally competent also where the person does not comply with the requirements specified in subsection (3) of this section, but has completed professional driver training in accordance with the Road Transport Act, taken a respective examination and holds the professional certificate of a driver.
(8) A person who has acquired foreign professional qualifications may work as a transport manager where their professional qualifications have been recognised in accordance with the Recognition of Foreign Professional Qualifications Act. The competent authority provided for in subsection 7 (2) of the Recognition of Foreign Professional Qualifications Act is the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications.
(2) A certified true copy of the Community licence can be applied for a power-driven vehicle that has been entered in the motor register and that has passed the roadworthiness test. In addition to the documents specified in clauses 1) and 4) of subsection (1) of this section, an applicant for a certified true copy of the Community licence submits to the issuer thereof the contract of use of the vehicle where the applicant is not the owner of the vehicle or the user of the vehicle based on the registration certificate of the vehicle.
2) a written opinion on the timetable specified in clause 1) of subsection (4) of this section by each rural municipality government or city government concerned in respect of a county route and by each public transport centre concerned or by a local authority formed as a result of a merger specified in subsection 19 (5) of this Act in respect of a domestic long-distance route and, in the administrative territory of the cities of Tallinn, Tartu, Narva, Kohtla-Järve and Pärnu, by the city government concerned;
(8) Where the non-profit association or a regional public transport centre is authorised to grant the Community licence, the certified true copy of the Community licence or the authorisation for a regular service or approve the timetable, the non-profit association or the regional public transport centre has the right to charge a fee for reviewing the application for granting or approving the document, provided that the rate of the fee does not exceed the state fee rate set for reviewing the application.
(1) The issuer of a Community licence verifies the absence of the applicant’s overdue tax exceeding the sum specified in subsection 14 (5) of the Taxation Act (hereinafter non-staggered tax arrears), the data of the applicant in the criminal records database and in the traffic supervision information system and, in the case of an operator entered in the commercial register, the data available in the commercial register, and in the case of a legal person entered in the register of non-profit associations and foundations, the data available in the register as well as the data of the transport manager appointed by the carrier providing transport services on the basis of the Community licence. The applicant for the Community licence is notified of a decision to issue or to refuse to issue the licence by post or electronically within 30 days as of the submission of all the data and documents specified in subsection 46 (1) of this Act.
(2) The issuer of a certified true copy of the Community licence verifies the absence of the applicant’s non-staggered tax arrears and, in the case of an operator entered in the commercial register, the data available in the commercial register, and in the case of a legal person entered in the register of non-profit associations and foundations, the data available in the register as well as the data of the vehicle in the motor register. The applicant is notified of a decision to issue or refuse to issue the certified true copy of the Community licence by post or electronically within 15 days as of the submission of the documents specified in subsection 46 (2) of this Act.
(3) The issuer of an authorisation for a regular service checks the absence of the applicant’s non-staggered tax arrears. The issuer of the authorisation for a regular service communicates a decision to grant or refuse to grant the authorisation to the applicant by post or electronically within 30 days as of the submission of all the documents specified in subsection 46 (3) of this Act. Where it is necessary to gather additional information in order to review the application for the authorisation for a regular service, the time limit for the review of the application may be extended by up to 30 days. The applicant is informed of the extension of the time limit by post or electronically.
(6) The applicant for the Community licence is notified of a decision to issue or to refuse to issue the licence by post or electronically within 30 calendar days as of the submission of all the data and documents specified in subsection 46 (4) of this Act. Where it is necessary to gather additional information in order to review the application for the approval of the timetable, the time limit for reviewing the application may be extended by up to 30 days. The applicant is informed of the extension of the time limit by post or electronically.
(4) Where an authorisation for a regular service is refused on the ground specified in clause 4) of subsection (3) of this section, the granting of an authorisation for a regular service on the same travel route is refused in the event of the first revocation of the authorisation for a regular service and the granting of each regular service authorisation is refused in the event of each consecutive revocation of the authorisation for a regular service.
(5) The approval of the timetable of a special commercial route may be refused on the grounds set out in subsection (1) of this section or where a precept has been made to the applicant on the grounds set out in subsection 53 (2) of this Act and the applicant has failed to comply therewith.
(4) The time limits for submission of the application and notification set out in subsections (1) and (3) of this section may be shortened by agreement between the carrier and the issuer.
(2) A certified true copy of a Community licence is issued for ten years, but not for longer than the term of validity of the Community licence. Upon revocation or expiry of the Community licence, the validity of the certified true copy of the Community licence terminates. Upon using a vehicle under a contract of use, the validity of a certified true copy of a Community licence terminates upon expiry of the contract of use.
(5) By agreement between the issuer of the authorisation for a regular service and the carrier, the closing date of commencement of carriage indicated in the authorisation for domestic commercial regular services and in the authorisation for international regular services may be set to a date later than specified in subsection (4) of this section, but not to a date that is more than 270 days from the date of receipt of the authorisation for regular services and, in the case of international regular services, from the date of receipt of the authorisations for regular services of all the states concerned.
(2) The issuer of an authorisation for a regular service may, in addition to the grounds provided for in clauses 1) and 3) of subsection (1) of this section, make a precept to the holder of the authorisation for the elimination of deficiencies or suspend the validity of the authorisation for a fixed term or revoke the authorisation where the holder thereof has not complied with the terms of carriage.
(1) An applicant for and a holder of a taxi licence must be of good repute. Repute is considered good where they have not been convicted of a criminal offence of the first degree or where they have no more than once been convicted of a wilful criminal offence of the second degree or a misdemeanour specified in § 311 of the Road Transport Act, § 202, 204, 208, 210, 220, 225, 244, 252 or 255 of the Traffic Act, § 1531, 154, 1541 or 1552 of the Taxation Act, § 62 or 63 of the Fiscal Marking of Liquid Fuel Act, § 300 of the Aliens Act, §§ 68–70 of the Consumer Protection Act, §§ 36 and 37 of the Language Act, and § 86, 87, 89 or 90 of this Act or the records have been deleted from the criminal records database in accordance with the Criminal Records Database Act. Repute is also considered good where the applicant for or holder of a taxi licence has been convicted of these offences, but as a result of the proceedings it is found based on the circumstances identified in the given case that the loss of good repute would be disproportionate.
2) they have not more than once been convicted of a wilful criminal offence of the second degree or for a criminal offence provided for in § 423 of the Penal Code or for a misdemeanour provided for in § 1541 or § 1552 of the Taxation Act, § 62 or § 63 of the Fiscal Marking of Liquid Fuel Act, § 75 of the General Part of the Economic Activities Code Act, §§ 68–70 of the Consumer Protection Act, § 36 or § 37 of the Language Act, and § 88, subsection 89 (1) or subsection 90 (1) of this Act or the records have been deleted from the criminal records database in accordance with the Criminal Records Database Act. Repute is also considered good where the applicant for or holder of a service provider card has been convicted of these offences, but as a result of the proceedings it is found based on the circumstances identified in the given case that the loss of good repute would be disproportionate.
(1) The issuer of a taxi licence verifies whether the applicant has any non-staggered tax arrears, verifies the data of the applicant in the criminal records database and, where the applicant is an operator entered in the commercial register, verifies the data available in the commercial register and, where the applicant is a legal person entered in the register of non-profit associations and foundations, verifies the data of the applicant entered in the respective register. The applicant for a taxi licence is notified of a decision to grant or to refuse to grant the licence by post or electronically within seven days as of the submission of all the data and documents specified in subsection 58 (1) of this Act.
4) upon applying for the vehicle card, the taximeter adaptation certificate sets out services that are not included in the list established by the rural municipality government or the city government on the basis of clause 66 (3) 3) of this Act, as well as where the journey commencement fee, the fare per kilometre or the time fee indicated in the taximeter adaptation certificate exceeds the maximum permitted rate established on the basis of clause 66 (3) 3) of this Act;
(4) Upon provision of the taxi services specified in subsection (1) of this section, the passenger pays on the basis of the price list and the reading of the taximeter. In the case of the taxi services specified in subsection (11), the passenger pays on the basis of the price calculated via the information society service. Where the driver breaches subsection (1) or (2) or the carrier breaches subsection (11), the passenger has the right to refuse to pay.
(2) Upon provision of regular services, except for special regular services, the passenger must be able to buy a paper ticket in accordance with the requirements provided for in subsections (3) and (4) of this section and the established price. Where the passenger is not enabled this, the passenger has the right to travel without paying the fare.
(1) The rural municipality government and the city government, the Road Administration, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, the Police and Border Guard Board and the Consumer Protection Board exercise supervision over the compliance with the requirements provided for in this Act and legislation established on the basis thereof, in regulations of the European Union, international agreements, the public service contract and the public law contract.
(2) The rural municipality government or the city government exercises supervision over compliance with the requirements of a rural or urban regular service authorisation, taxi licence, vehicle card and service provider card as well as over those arising from a public service contract awarded by it, a public law contract concluded by it and those established on the basis of subsection 1 (81) of this Act.
(4) The Road Administration exercises supervision over compliance with the requirements of a county regular services authorisation, a long-distance regular service authorisation and an international regular service authorisation, over performance of a public service contract and a public law contract concluded by it, and over compliance with the requirements of a public service contract concluded regarding county, long-distance, rural and urban regular services whereby earmarked subsidies are paid for the public service obligation. The Road Administration also exercises supervision over the existence of the passengers’ right to travel by bus, coach, ship, air and rail, and the existence of the required documents upon carriage of passengers by way of occasional services and special regular services.
2) rural municipality government or city government officials – upon establishment of the service provider card obligation in a legal instrument established on the basis of subsection 1 (81) of this Act, the service provider card; the documents specified in clauses 83 (1) 1), 3), 4), 6) and 7) and the documents specified in subsections 83 (3) and (4) of this Act;
(8) Where the rural municipality government or city government, the Director General of the Road Administration or the minister responsible for the field terminates a public law contract unilaterally or another reason becomes evident which prevents a legal person in private law to continue the performance of an administrative function, the materials related to the performance of the function are immediately transferred to the authority that concluded the contract and the authority takes immediate steps to ensure the performance of the function.
§ 941. Violation of legislation governing use of non-power driven means of transport, motor assisted cycle or other vehicle falling outside the scope of regulation of this Act for carriage of passengers by road for fare
(1) The penalty for violation of legislation established on the basis of subsection 1 (81) of this Act, which governs the use of a non-power driven means of transport, a motor assisted cycle or another vehicle falling outside the scope of regulation of this Act for the carriage of passengers by road for a fare –
is a fine of up to 100 fine units.
(2) The penalty for the same act committed by a legal person , –
is a fine of up to 3200 euros.
(4) Where to an applicant for a Community licence a public transport authorisation has been granted before the entry into force of this Act and less than two years have passed from the revocation of the authorisation and the reason for the revocation is a violation of the requirements established by law, no Community licence is granted to the applicant.
(6) Upon granting an authorisation for a regular service on the basis of clauses 48 (3) 2) and 3) of this Act or upon approval of the timetable of a commercial route serviced under an authorisation for a regular service or upon refusal to approve it, the terms of carriage submitted regarding the authorisation for a regular service specified in subsection (5) of this section are taken into account as of the thirtieth day following their submission.
(8) Where a person has received a training certificate of a person responsible for international carriage of passengers in accordance with the requirements in force before 4 December 2011, the person does not need to complete the transport manager training course, take a written final examination of the training course or hold a respective training certificate. In such an event the training certificate of the person responsible for international carriage of passengers is deemed to be the transport manager training certificate required for carriage by bus and coach.
(10) A person who has been issued a training certificate of a person responsible for domestic carriage of passengers in accordance with the requirements in force before the entry into force of this Act may work for a carrier holding a public transport authorisation and engaged solely in domestic transport operations until the public transport authorisation expires. Where the person wishes to receive the training certificate of passenger transport managed on the basis of a Community licence, the person does not need to complete the transport manager training course or take the written final examination of the training course to the extent that the subjects covered in the training course preceding the obtaining of the training certificate of the person responsible for domestic passenger transport overlaps with the subjects covered in the transport manager training course.
[RT I, 16.05.2017, 1 - entry into force 19.05.2017]
(17) Where a local authority has not established a public transport centre or become a member in an existing public transport centre in accordance with subsection 15 (1) of this Act by 1 January 2018, the Director General of the Road Administration, because of the need for more practical organisation of public transport, appoints by a directive an existing public transport centre to perform in the region concerned the relevant functions of organisation of public transport specified in § 16 on the basis of a public law contract.
(18) Regarding public service contracts concluded by a country government before 1 January 2018, except for public service contracts for carriage of passengers by ship, pleasure craft, ferry and aircraft concluded on the basis of clause 19 (1) 4) of this Act, and regarding public service contracts concluded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, except for public service contracts concluded on the basis of clauses 19 (1) 1) and 2), as of 1 January 2018 all the functions of the competent authority transfer to the regional public transport centre that concluded the public law contract with the Road Administration or the county government. Where no public law contract has been concluded, the functions of the competent authority transfer to the Road Administration. In the case of public service contracts for carriage of passengers by ship, pleasure craft, ferry and aircraft concluded by the county government on the basis of clause 19 (1) 4) of this Act and in the case of public service contracts concluded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications on the basis of clause 19 (1) 2) before 1 January 2018, all the functions of the competent authority transfer to the Road Administration as of 1 January 2018.