| THE MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT ------- | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM Independence - Freedom – Happiness --------- |
| No. 10/2010/TT-BGTVT | Hanoi, April 19, 2010 |
CIRCULAR
PROVIDING FOR ROAD ADMINISTRATION AND MAINTENANCE
THE MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT
Pursuant to the November 13, 2008 Law on Road Traffic;
Pursuant to the Government's Decree No. 51/ 2008/ND-CP of April 22, 2008, defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Transport;
The Minister of Transport provides for road administration and maintenance as follows:
Chapter I GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1. Scope of regulation
1. This Circular provides for road administration and maintenance; the application of technical standards and norms on road administration and maintenance; and responsibilities for road administration and maintenance.
2. This Circular does not apply to expressways.
Article 2. Subjects of application
This Circular applies to agencies, organizations and individuals involved in road administration and maintenance.
Article 3. Interpretation of terms
In this Circular, the terms below are construed as follows:
1. Road administration agencies include an agency performing the specialized state management function under the Ministry of Transport and specialized agencies under People's Committees of provinces or centrally run cities, People's Committees of districts, towns or provincial cities and People's Committees of communes, wards and townships.
2. Road works include roads, standing and parking places on roads, traffic light signals, road signs, road markings, marker posts, fences, traffic islands, median strips, milestones, walls, embankments, water discharge systems, vehicle weight checkpoints, toll booths and other support road works and equipment.
3. Technical infrastructure system consists of lines, pipelines, tunnels and technical trenches running along or across roads.
4. Road work maintenance process means a document providing for the contents, methods and order for maintaining a road work. This process covers maintenance of parts and structures of a work and maintenance of installed equipment and equipment operation.
5. Regular maintenance means technical manipulations conducted regularly to prevent and promptly repair minor breakdowns of work parts or equipment.
Regular maintenance aims to minimize the development of minor breakdowns into major breakdowns and shall be conducted regularly and continuously on a daily basis and all year round on the whole road route to ensure safe, smooth and convenient road transport.
6. Work maintenance means a combination of activities aiming to maintain normal operation and ensure use safety for a work.
Road maintenance covers regular maintenance, periodical repair and irregular repair.
Periodical repair covers medium repair and overhaul.
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