A tricky bill was adopted in Crimea: citizens - responsibility, officials - freedom
The Crimean parliament released officials from liability for unlawfully refusing citizens emergency legal assistance.
Changes to the law on administrative offenses were made under the guise of fines for swimming in prohibited places, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The day before, at the session of the State Council of Crimea, deputies in the second reading adopted changes to the law on administrative violations. When it was considered in the first reading, it was exclusively about responsibility for swimming in places where warning signs “Swimming is prohibited” were installed. But by the second reading, the document received an addition in the form of the abolition or amendment of articles providing for the liability of officials for refusing citizens emergency legal assistance, that is, consultations on their issues if they are urgent.
Swimming in places where billboards (full houses) with warning and prohibition signs and inscriptions are posted will entail the imposition of an administrative fine on citizens in the amount of one thousand to three thousand rubles.
“We are receiving a bill that seems to have such a good mission, for example, here - to limit the swimming of people, where there are uninspected beaches, where it is dangerous to swim,” said communist deputy Ilya Donchenko during the vote.
– But, making amendments, we see that we have added here, so by chance, “to recognize Article 2.3 as invalid” of our law on administrative liability. And it provided for liability for officials of executive authorities in the event of refusal to provide emergency legal assistance. It turns out that, on the one hand, we accept fines for people, and for officials we exempt them from any liability.”
The communist deputy's remark aroused dissatisfaction among the Chairman of Parliament Vladimir Konstantinov and interest in the seemingly passable document. Indeed, if initially it talked about “detailing the types of administrative offenses in the field of ensuring the safety of people on water bodies,” then several points were later added. In addition to emergency legal assistance, for refusal of which the official was threatened with a fine of 3 to 5 thousand rubles, officials of executive bodies of state power are now relieved of the obligation to consider administrative cases in the field of environmental protection, transport violations, etc.
“For balance,” legislators have provided relief for citizens - from now on they will not face a fine for violating the rules of visiting and behavior on the territory of cemeteries in the amount of 300 to 1 thousand rubles.
To be on the safe side, parliament expanded the categories of recipients of free legal assistance by including mobilized persons and members of their families in the list.
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