Fire Brigade Act (Austria)

The fire brigade laws in Austria, like the entire fire brigade system , fall within the competence of the federal states . This means that the relevant legislation also falls within this legislative level.

The scope of the laws varies from state to state. While in some federal states the law only affects the fire brigades themselves, in other federal states it also regulates preventive fire protection and the assistance of the general public.

In all fire brigade laws, the organizational forms of fire brigades in the respective federal state are fundamentally specified. These laws can result in ordinances from the federal state or individual municipalities that affect the general public. These are primarily regulations that relate to preventive fire protection , especially how the fire inspection is to be carried out. Fire protection in the building sector or in the commercial sector is not affected. Also not included are regulations for the event of a disaster. These are regulated in separate disaster control laws.

Regulations resulting from the respective laws, which only affect the fire brigades themselves, are decided by the respective state fire brigade associations .

Overview of the fire brigade laws in the individual federal states

state	law	Concerns
Burgenland	Bgld. Fire Brigade Act of May 26, 1994	Total population
Carinthia	Carinthian Fire Brigade Act (K-FWGb) of June 7, 1990	Fire services
Lower Austria	Lower Austrian Fire Brigade Act 2015 (Lower Austrian FG) from 2015	Total population
Upper Austria	Upper Austrian Fire Brigade Act 2015 - (Upper Austrian FWG 2015)	Fire services
Salzburg	Salzburg Fire Brigade Act LgBl 59/1978	Fire services
Styria	Styrian Fire Brigade Act - StFWG (December 13, 2011)	Fire services
Tyrol	State Fire Brigade Act of October 2, 2001	Fire services
Vorarlberg	Fire Police Order of 1949	Total population
Vienna	Vienna Fire Brigade Act B420-000 of May 17, 1957	Fire services

history

Fire extinguishing regulations were predecessors to the fire brigade laws at a time when there was no talk of organized fire brigades. The oldest known fire extinguishing regulations date from 1221 from Vienna and from 1222 from Enns .

In 1722, Emperor Charles VI. the deletion regulations for the Duchy of Styria and the inner Austrian regions . While the Theresian Fire Code again mainly referred to Vienna, her son Joseph II published the Josephine Fire Code in 1782 for the rural towns and for the open countryside in Lower Austria :

This ordinance subsequently became valid for all crown lands between 1785 and 1797 . In these fire regulations, which are read several times a year, emphasis was placed above all on the fire inspection . But the ordinance also contains information about extinguishing, as well as the possibility of prescribing extinguishing devices.

In the second half of the 19th century, in the course of the Austrian Fire Brigade Days, Cisleithania's fire police regulations were created for all Kronländer . However, this took a while:

• June 1, 1870 in the Archduchy of Lower Austria
• December 16, 1872 in the margravate of Moravia
• February 2, 1873 in the Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia
• February 7, 1873 in the Archduchy of Upper Austria
• May 25, 1876 in the Duchy of Bohemia
• November 10, 1880 in the Duchy of Salzburg
• April 13, 1881 in the Austrian-Illyrian coastal country
• September 15, 1881 in the Duchy of Carniola
• November 28, 1881 in the princes of Tyrol
• June 23, 1886 in the Duchy of Styria
• February 18, 1888 in the state of Vorarlberg
• February 10, 1901 in the Duchy of Galicia
• March 20, 1901 in the Duchy of Carinthia

literature

• Josef Buchta (Ed.), Erwin Chalupar (Red.): 120 Years of the Austrian Federal Fire Brigade Association, 1889–2009 . Emergency call special edition 2010, ZDB -ID 2240604-9 . Austrian Federal Fire Brigade Association , Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-9502364-8-4 .
• Harald Festl: The right of the fire brigade . Verlag Österreich, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-7046-0791-6 . (At the same time: -: The law of the fire brigade . Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1994, OBV ).
• Fire police regulations for Austria under the Enns, with the exception of Vienna. In:  Fromme's Oesterreichischer Feuerwehr-Kalender , year 1879, VI. Volume, pp. 37–72 (regulatory). (Online at ANNO ). .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Burgenland Fire Brigade Act ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 70 kB) 
2. ↑ Carinthian Fire Brigade Act ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Lower Austrian Fire Brigade Act 2015  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 397 kB)  
4. ↑ Upper Austrian Fire Brigade Act
5. ↑ Salzburg Fire Brigade Act 1978 (PDF; 315 kB)
6. ↑ Styrian Fire Brigade Act, entered into force on February 18, 2012
7. ↑ Tiroler Landes-Feuerwehrgesetz 2001 on RIS
8. ↑ Vorarlberg Fire Police Regulations
9. ↑ Vienna Fire Brigade Act (PDF; 61 kB)

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