Legislation and documents

1. TRAVELLERS’ RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS

(Excerpt from the “Contract for the delegation of the management of the local public transport service by concession in the municipality of Iasi”)

Art. 19. The main rights of travellers are:

• They have guaranteed the right to benefit from the local public transport service for people under the conditions provided for in this regulation.
• In accordance with the provisions of the law, to challenge the decisions of the Iasi Local Council, in order to prevent or repair a direct or indirect damage determined by them.
• They have access to public information regarding the local public transport service for people regarding the quality indicators of the service, the tariff structure and the contractual clauses, which are considered to be of public interest.
• To be informed about the network of local public transport routes for people, the traffic schedules and the applied tariffs. These will be provided both in the boarding/disembarking stations on the routes, as well as in the means of transport.
• To be informed about the obligations of the transport operator in the relationship with the travelling public, respectively the obligations of the travellers, as well as the sanctions related to the violation of these obligations that derive from the contract of delegation of the management of the local public transport service of people and from the regulations of the service.

Art. 20. The main obligations of travellers are:

• To pay the transport value only based on the cost legibly printed on the travel card.
• To respect the integrity of the means of transport and the transport infrastructure (equipment in passenger stations, display and indicators).
• To present the valid travel card at the control.
• Not to physically and verbally attack the driver of the means of transport, the control bodies and the other passengers.

2. ESTABLISHING AND SANCTIONING CERTAIN FACTS AND OFFENSES IN THE FIELD OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT

(Excerpt from the “Contract for the delegation of the management of the local public transport service by concession in the municipality of Iasi”)

Art. 21.

• Boarding the means of public transport, belonging to the public transport operator, is done in order and only through the doors provided with the inscription “BOARDING” and disembarking through the doors with the inscription “DESCENDING”. Boarding is allowed through the doors with the inscription “DESCEND” only for pregnant women, people with small children, the elderly and the disabled with a visible disability and the sick led by companions.
• After boarding the means of transport, the traveller is obliged to validate the travel ticket immediately at the specially installed machines.

Children up to 7 years old are exempt from paying the travel tax.

In the case of purchasing a ticket via SMS, it (the SMS) is sent before boarding the means of transport of the public transport operator.

The trip validation code via SMS is not transferable and is valid strictly on the mobile phone from which the SMS was sent.

(3) The travel documents (tickets, passes, free travel documents) are non-transferable and will be used according to the conditions provided for their issuance, travellers being obliged to present them to the control bodies together with their identity documents upon request.

Holders of travel cards (passes, free travel cards) who do not have these cards on them or do not present them at the request of the control bodies are considered violators, and will have to bear the provisions of this decision.

(4) During the validity period (120 min.) the travel card (ticket) entitles the traveller to multiple trips in the area of validity of the ticket.

The tickets from the travel sets are valid only for the trip for which they were validated in the respective means of transport, not allowing multiple trips.

• The following acts, representing contraventions to the rules regarding public transport of passengers, if they were not committed under other conditions than according to the criminal law, are considered crimes:

1. Travelling without a ticket, pass or travel card suitable for the used means of transport or refusing to present travel documents and identity documents to the control bodies at their request;
2. Travelling on stairs, traction devices and protective bars of public transport means, as well as forcing the doors during the trip, blocking the doors by parking in their immediate vicinity after boarding;
3. Refusal to present the control code and control SMS;
4. Transport of birds, live animals, dogs without proof of vaccination, muzzle and leash, bulky objects and luggage of any kind, as well as flammable or explosive materials, with public transport means;
5. Smoking, spitting, eating seeds and ice cream, throwing pieces of paper and debris of any kind in public transport means;
6. Begging, gambling, causing a scandal or addressing insulting words to passengers, control bodies or on-board staff of public transport means;
7. Having a conversation with the driver of the public transport means while driving, the access of passengers to the driver’s cabin of the public transport means when it is separated from the rest of the vehicle;
8. Degradation and damage by any means to public transport vehicles and objects owned by the public transport operator, removing accessories from their endowment (the damage caused will be borne by the perpetrator);
9. Stationing passengers in the means of public transport located at the ends of the lines, where there are lines of refuge or return loops;
10. Boarding public transport without decent clothing or in an advanced state of intoxication;
11. Holding, sending or receiving validated travel tickets for the purpose of reusing them;
12. Obstructing the on-board staff or the control bodies, in order to exercise their duties;
13. Unauthorized pasting of posters inside or outside vehicles, tearing or damaging authorized posters, spreading advertising leaflets in public transport means, without the written consent given by the public transport operator;
14. Throwing stones or other objects at passengers, on-board staff or the control bodies in public transport means, acting on them with flammable, irritating or paralyzing substances;
15. Refusal of passengers to present their travel card when boarding the means of transport at the request of the driver of the vehicle;
16. Buying or selling goods inside the means of transport;

(6) In order to prevent the breakdown of the electrical network and the parking of trams, the movement of oversized vehicles under the electrical contact network is prohibited.

Voluntary stopping of vehicles on the platform of the tramway is also prohibited.

The damages caused by breaking or damaging the electrical network, as well as by blocking the circulation of the means of transport belonging to the public transport operator, will be borne by the drivers of the vehicles that caused them.

(7) The contraventions provided in article 21, previous paragraphs of the current Regulation are sanctioned with a fine of 150 lei.

(8) Persons detected without a valid travel card in the means of transport, can pay on the spot a “special travel fee” of 99 lei, based on the receipt issued by the control bodies, in which case the minutes of finding and any follow-up is stopped. In case of refusal, the control body will proceed to conclude the record of finding the contravention, in accordance with the provisions of O.G.2/2001.

The sums derived from the fines applied according to this decision are paid in full to the local budget.

(9) The civil compensations due for the damages caused by the commission of any of the contraventions mentioned above are established in relation to the value of the damage ascertained with the application of the legal rates.

(10) Assets that were used to commit the contraventions provided by the present decision, as well as the assets acquired by committing the contraventions, are subject to confiscation.

(11) The present contraventions are determined by: police officers or non-commissioned officers, traffic controllers from the Traffic Safety Department, ticket controllers of the public transport operator, and collaborators of the public transport operator (the empowered persons of the Mayor in the present decision).

(12) The violator is obliged to present the identity document to the investigating agent at his request.

For the legalization of the violator, the investigating agent can call, in case of need, on the officers or non-commissioned officers of the police, gendarmerie, local police, who are obliged to give him support.

The violator is obliged to remain with the control crew for the entire duration of identification and preparation of the violation report, and/or until the arrival of the police/gendarmerie crew and/or for the entire duration of the trip to a police/gendarmerie station.

(13) The violator has the right to pay half of the amount of the established fine within 15 days from the moment of taking cognizance or communication of the minutes.

For Iasi, the payment will be made at one of the cashiers of the Directorate of Taxes and Duties of the City Hall of Iasi.

For the province, payment is made through bank transfer or postal order to the account IBAN RO11TREZ40621350201XXXXX, Bank: TREZORERIA IASI, beneficiary Iasi City Hall, fiscal code 4541580.

In both cases, the violator has the obligation to forward to the Control Department of the public transport operator in Iasi, Silvestru Street no. 5, within 15 days from the date of receipt of the minutes, proof of payment (original and Xerox copy according to the receipt or postal order and copy of the minutes).

(14) Complaints can be made against the contravention minutes, within 15 days from the date of its communication.

The complaint, accompanied by a copy of the minutes, is submitted to the Iasi Court.

(15) The present provisions are supplemented by the provisions of O.G.2/2001 regarding the procedure for finding contraventions, the application of sanctions, the exercise of appeals, the execution of fines and compensations.

(16) With the present date, H.C.L. no. 144/1997 amended by H.C.L. no. 260/2000 is repealed.

Declarations of assets and interests

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General Meeting of Shareholders

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LIST OF ADMINISTRATORS AND DIRECTORS OF THE COMPANY “COMPANIA DE TRANSPORT PUBLIC IASI” S.A.

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