On approval of Regulations on issuance of special permits (licenses) for in-town passenger transportation in the Azerbaijan Republic
Release date: 17.02.1998
Cabinet of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Republic
Decree № 34
On approval of Regulations on issuance of special permits (licenses) for in-town passenger transportation in the Azerbaijan Republic
Baku, 17 February, 1998
With the purpose of implementation of Decree of President of the Azerbaijan Republic «On approval of list of activities requiring special permit (license)» dated 4 October, 1997 № 637, Cabinet of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Republic takes decision:
1. To approve «Regulations on issuance of special permits (licenses) for in-town passenger transportation in the Azerbaijan Republic» (enclosed).
2. This Decree comes into force from the date of its signing.
Prime-minister of the Azerbaijan Republic
A. RASI-ZADE.
Became stale according to the Decree 173 as of 7 November, 2002 («LegalActs»).
Approved
by Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers
of the Azerbaijan Republic
№ 34 dated 17 Fe
Regulations
on issuance of special permits (licenses) for in-town passenger
transportation in the Azerbaijan Republic
I. General
1.1 These Regulations have been prepared based on the Law of the Azerbaijan Republic «On business activity», «Regulations on issuance of special permits (licenses) for some kinds of business activity» approved by Decree of President of the Azerbaijan Republic № 543, dated 27 January 1997, and Decree of President of the Azerbaijan Republic «On approval of list of activities requiring special permit (license)» № 637, dated 4 October, 1997 and specify procedure of issuing special permit (license) for in-town passenger transportation in the Azerbaijan Republic» (hereinafter «license»).
1.2 License issued by city or regional (excluding districts in cities) executive power body (hereinafter - local power executive body) based on this Regulations is official document permitting legal entities, irrespective of form of property and organization-legal form, and also physical persons involved in business activity without formation of legal entity (hereinafter - «applicants»), to carry out activity on in-town passenger transportation:
1.2.1 License for in-town passenger transportation is issued for passenger transportation by especially small, small, medium, large, especially big coaches.
Separate license is issued for each specific kind of activity specified in this clause. An applicant involved in several kinds of activity may have several licenses.
1.3 Applicants might carry out activity specified in the license in an established order and in specified term only after they have been given license based on these Regulations.
1.4 Foreign legal entities and physical persons, subsidiaries and representations of foreign legal entities must obtain license for certain kinds of activities in compliance with these Regulations if there is no inter-state agreement about recognition in the Azerbaijan Republic of licenses on said kinds of activities obtained by them in their countries.
1.5 Issued license (copy of license) may be used only by the license owner, it may not be transferred to other persons, and will not apply to legal entities whose constitutor is the owner of the license, to other persons carrying out joint activity with the owner of the license, including activity based on agreement about cooperation.
Provisional issuance of license to a person acting on behalf of the owner of license based on individual agreement (contract), or contract of agency, is not recognized transfer of a license to another person.
II. Procedure of issuance of license
2.1 To obtain license, an applicant should submit to local executive power body the following documents:
2.1.1 application for obtaining license.
Application shall specify:
- for legal entities - name of legal entity, its organization-legal form, legal address, account number, name of bank, kind of activity1;
- for physical persons - name, middle name, surname, data of identity certificate (series, number, date of issuance and issuing body, address), kind of activity1;
2.1.2 copies of constituent documents of the enterprise;
2.1.3 copy of certificate on state registration of the enterprise;
2.1.4 copy of certificate about registration of physical person carrying out business activity, in tax inspection;
2.1.5 document confirming payment of state duty for obtaining the license;
2.1.6 copy of document confirming right of an applicant for use of each of objects indicated in application (right for property, leasing, use, etc.);
2.1.7 the following conditions are obligatory for issuance of a license2:
- provision of information about the composition and qualification of the specialists of the applicant - legal entity, including specialist on safety of traffic;
- provision of information about unbroken record of driver’ service (not less than three years), copy of pass permit for automobile transport, carrying out the dangerous cargo, certificate about study of special instruction about it; copies of license of driver (if he is natural person) and drivers, which could be invited for accomplishment of this activity.
2.1.8 Information about kinds of transport facilities and their number as per kinds, registration documents for them, insurance certificates, driving licenses of respective categories and experience of driving.
2.2 It is forbidden to demand from the applicant to submit documents other than those specified in these Regulations.
2.3 Local executive power body accepts application for a license and documents envisaged in these Regulations, registers them in special book, studies them and if there are no faults or grounds for refusal - takes decision about issuance of license within 15 days from the date of registration.
If any faults have been found in submitted documents, applicant should be notified in writing as such, and within 5 days after elimination of faults and re-submittance of documents, these documents are studied and relevant decision is taken.
If decision about refusal in license is taken in accordance with terms of these Regulations, an applicant shall be informed as such, in writing with indication of reasons.
Should the last day of the term specified in this clause fall on holiday, the next working day will be regarded the last day of the term.
2.4 Refusal in issuance of the license takes place in the following cases:
2.4.1 failure to submit documents envisaged in these Regulations;
2.4.2 when data contained in the documents submitted by the applicant are inaccurate or false;
2.4.3 when obligatory conditions required for the applicant to implement certain kind of activity are absent;
2.4.4 if the applicant or invited specialists have no relevant qualifications for implementation of activity envisaged by these Regulations;
2.4.5 if two years have not yet passed after the license obtained by the applicant for said kind of activity was annulled on the initiative of body, having issued the license;
2.4.6 if the applicant applied during the period of suspension of the license for certain kind of activity on the initiative of the body, having issued the license;
2.4.7 if technical characteristics of transport facilities not correspond to requirements of passenger transportation;
2.4.8 in other cases envisaged by legislation.
2.5 After elimination of circumstances which became the reason for refusal, the applicant will have the right to apply to local executive power body for a license in accordance with these Regulations, and if the applicant disagrees with refusal he will have the right to apply to law court.
2.6 On liquidation of the enterprise, organization, company or termination of validity of certificate on implementation of business activity granted to physical person, license granted to legal entities and physical persons also becomes null and void.
In case of re-organization of legal entity, change of its name, data in identity certificate of physical person, loss of license, the applicant should apply for re-issuance of the license within 15 days.
Procedure of re-issuance of the license is same as for its issuance.
During the term of re-registration of the license, its owner acts based on the former license (copies of license issued for separate objects), and should the license be lost - based on provisional permit of the local executive power body (copies of license issued for separate objects). Provisional permit signed by Director of the local executive power body and certified by seal is issued after all documents for re-registration of the license have been submitted.
III. License
3.1 The following is indicated in the license:
3.1.1 stamp of the body, having issued the license;
3.1.2 for legal entities - name and legal address of the enterprise, organization and company which have been given the license;
3.1.3 for physical persons - name, middle name, surname, data of identity certificate (series, number, date of issuance and issuing body, address);
3.1.4 kind of activity for which license has been issued;
3.1.5 term of validity of the license;
3.1.6 procedure of implementation of respective kind of activity (composition of automobile transport facilities, their number and etc.);
3.1.7 registration number of the license and date of issuance.
3.2 License is signed by the head of local executive power body (deputy head during his absence) and notified by the seal of the local executive power body.
IV. Term of validity of the license
4.1 License is issued for the period of two years. The license for at least two years may be issued according to application of the person, receiving the license.
4.2 Extension of the term of license validity is done in same order as its issuance.
4.3 Out of date license and its copies are considered invalid.
V. Copy of license
5.1 If licensed kind of activity is to be carried out at separate (in terms of territory) objects, an applicant shall be given copy of license for each separate object specified in application, with indication of its address.
5.2 If an applicant, after obtaining the license, desires to carry out activity at separate (in terms of territory) objects, or to increase a number of such objects he must submit the following documents to the local executive power body to obtain copies of licenses for new objects:
5.2.1 application with indication of registration number of the license, date, kind of activity, number and addresses of new objects;
5.2.2 documents for the objects as envisaged by sub-clauses 2.1.6 and 2.1.8 of these Regulations.
5.3 Local executive power body investigates application concerning issuance of copies of the license based on clauses 2.3 and 2.4 of these Regulations and takes relevant decision.
5.4 Copy of license is official document given to the license owner for each separate object, which is issued on the license form, with indication of requisites of the license itself, where word «copy» is added in the upper right corner, and address of the object is indicated in the box »Address». Said document will be signed by head of the local executive power body or, during his absence, by his deputy, notified by the seal of the local executive power body and will authorize to carry out activity specified in this copy.
5.5 Issued copies of licenses are registered at the local executive power body.
5.6 If copy of a license gets lost, license owner should apply to the local executive power body to get new copy.
5.7 Payment for issuance and re-registration of a copy of license is not taken.
5.8 License cards are issued to the applicant according to the license, issuing for each automobile transport facility on the basis of the form, prepared and approved by the local executive power body.
In license card, issued by the local executive power body are specified:
5.8.1 registration number of the license, date of its issue and validity term;
5.8.2 model, type and mark of automobile’ state registration;
5.8.3 name of the license’ owner;
5.8.4 type of activity (with indication of concrete route of the coach passenger transportation);
5.8.5 license cards, issued for automobile facilities - are the official documents, certifying the accomplishment of activity on the basis of license;
5.8.6 when the number of automobile transport facilities being in availability of the license’ owner is increased, he will be issued the additional license cards according to number of these automobile facilities on the basis of the present Regulations.
VI. Procedure of use of license and control
6.1 When carrying out the activity based on these Regulations owners of the license must observe the following norms:
6.1.1 tariffs for transportation should not exceed the tariffs, established by local executive power bodies according to kinds of activity, specified in paragraph 1.2 of the present Regulations;
6.1.2 when carrying out the kind of activity specified in the license to coordinate the number of route, its scheme and short characteristic with respective authorized organization;
6.1.3 automobile transport facilities should be suitable for in-town passenger transportation, should meet the ecological requirements and held the technical inspection every year.
6.2 Local executive power body carries out control over observance of regulations regarding the license.
6.3 Authority of the local executive power body includes the following:
6.3.1 control over observance of normative-legal acts and license regulations concerning implementation of kind of activity specified in the license;
6.3.2 requests and obtaining data and references on issues which could arise in the course of inspection from the license owner;
6.3.3 writing act on results of inspection with indication of faults and term for their elimination;
6.3.4 warning the owner of the license about necessity to liquidate found faults;
6.3.5 investigation of the case on suspension or annulment of the license.
6.4 During inspection the owner of the license must provide access of representatives of the local executive power body to the objects under inspection, to create normal conditions for inspection and supply all relevant documents.
6.5 Act in two copies is issued based on results of inspection. Act is signed by representatives of the local executive power body and license owner (head of the enterprise). In case of refusal to sign the act, it is noted in the act. Explanation of the license owner (head of the enterprise) is enclosed with the act. One copy of act remains with the license owner.
6.6 Whenever necessary, local executive power body may enlist to inspections carried out under these Regulations, representatives of relevant organizations.
VIII. Suspension or annulment of the license
7.1 The license is suspended by the local executive power body in the following cases:
7.1.1 when the owner of the license submits such application;
7.1.2 if the owner of the license fails to observe normative acts, or activity of the applicant is stopped by relevant state bodies based on legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic;
7.1.3 insolvency of the owner of license has been confirmed by legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic;
7.1.4 violation of terms and obligations which are required for implementation of certain kind of activity under these Regulations, has been established;
7.1.5 in other cases envisaged by legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic.
7.2 Within 5 days from the date when decision about suspension of the license has been taken, local executive power body notifies in writing the owner of the license and state tax inspection bodies about this decision.
Should circumstances which resulted in suspension of the license change, the license might again become valid after application of the owner. License shall be regarded restored after relevant decision of the local executive power body; the owner of the license and state tax inspection bodies are notified about such decision in writing, within 5-day term.
7.3 The license is annulled by the local executive power body in the following cases:
7.3.1 when the owner of the license submits such application;
7.3.2 unreliable data are found in documents submitted for obtaining the license;
7.3.3 owner of the license has violated procedures of use of the license;
7.3.4 there is such decision of the law court;
7.3.5 on liquidation of legal entity and termination of validity of certificate which has been issued to physical person involved in business activity;
7.3.6 in other cases envisaged by legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic.
7.4 Within 5 days from the date when decision about annulment of the license has been taken, local executive power body notifies in writing the owner of the license and state tax inspection bodies.
7.5 Decision taken about suspension, annulment or restoration of the license validity will apply also to copies of licenses issued based on these Regulations for individual objects.
7.6 Local executive power body keeps register of issued, registered, suspended, restored and annulled licenses.
VIII. Responsibility
8.1 Directors and officials of the local executive power body are responsible in accordance with current legislation for violation or improper observance of legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic concerning licensing.
8.2 Decisions and actions of directors and officials of the local executive power body may be appealed against in the law court in accordance with established order.
8.3 Persons (entities) carrying out kinds of activity specified in these Regulations without license are responsible in line with existing legislation.
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