ADMINISTRATIVE OFFENCES CODE
OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA
SECTION I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 1.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1. Objectives of the legislation of the Republic of Armenia on administrative offences
(Article repealed by HO-247-N of 19 December 2012)
Article 2. Legislation of the USSR and the Republic of Armenia on administrative offences
(Article repealed by HO-247-N of 19 December 2012)
Article 3. Competence of the USSR in the field of legislation on administrative offences
(Article repealed by HO-247-N of 19 December 2012)
Article 4. Competence of the Republic of Armenia in the field of legislation on administrative offences
(Article repealed by HO-247-N of 19 December 2012)
Article 5. Powers of regional, city, district councils of deputies and their executive committees in the field of administrative offences
(Article repealed by HO-247-N of 19 December 2012)
Article 6. Prevention of administrative offences
(Article repealed by HO-247-N of 19 December 2012)
Article 7. Ensuring socialist legality when applying measures of influence for administrative offences
(Article repealed by HO-247-N of 19 December 2012)
Article 8. The effect of legislation on liability for administrative offences
A person having committed an administrative offence shall be held liable based on the legislation in effect at the time and in the place the offence has been committed.
Acts mitigating or abolishing the liability for administrative offences shall have retroactive effect, i.e. they shall apply also to the offences committed before the publication of those acts. Acts establishing or aggravating the liability for administrative offences shall have no retroactive effect.
Proceedings for cases of administrative offences shall be conducted based on the legislation in effect at the time and place of the investigation of the case regarding the offence.
SECTION II
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFENCE AND ADMINISTARTIVE LIABILITY
I. GENERAL PART
CHAPTER 2
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFENCE AND LIABILITY FOR COMMITTING IT
Article 9. Concept of administrative offence
An administrative offence (misdemeanour) shall be illegal, culpable (intentional or negligent) action or inaction against the state or public order, the ensuring of state security, the socialist property, the rights and freedoms of citizens, the established governmental order, for which administrative liability is provided for by the legislation.
Administrative liability shall arise for offences provided for by this Code unless these offences by their nature give rise to criminal liability in accordance with the legislation in effect.
(Article 9 supplemented by HO-87-N of 1 March 2023)
Article 10. Committing an administrative offence intentionally
An administrative offence shall be considered as committed intentionally where the person committing it has realised the illegal nature of his or her action or inaction, foreseen its harmful consequences and wished for them, or deliberately allowed these consequences to arise.
Article 11. Committing an administrative offence negligently
An administrative offence shall be considered as committed negligently where the person having committed it has foreseen the possibility of occurrence of harmful consequences of his or her action or inaction but carelessly hoped to prevent them, or has failed to foresee the possibilities of occurrence of such consequences, even though he was obliged to and may have foreseen them.
Article 12. The age upon attaining which administrative liability arises
Persons who have attained the age of sixteen before the moment of committing an administrative offence shall be subject to administrative liability.
Article 13. Liability of minors
Measures provided for by the Charter of the Commissions on Juvenile Cases approved by the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Armenia shall apply to persons who have committed administrative offences between the ages of sixteen and eighteen.
Persons between the ages of sixteen and eighteen shall be subject to administrative liability on general basis in case of committing administrative offences provided for by Articles 53, 123-131.1, 160, 172, 173, 182, 190-193 of this Code. Taking into consideration the nature of the offence and the personality of the offender, the cases related to the persons specified (except for persons having committed offences provided for by Article 182 of the Code) may be referred, and in case of commission of offences provided for by Article 53 of the Code, shall, as a rule, be referred to commissions on juvenile cases of the executive committees of the regional (city), district councils for examination.
Minors between the ages of sixteen and eighteen may, on general basis, be subject to administrative liability also in other cases explicitly provided for by legislative acts of the USSR.
(Article 13 amended by HO-362-N of 2 October 2024)
Article 14. Liability of officials
Officials shall be subject to administrative liability for such administrative offences that are related to failure to comply with the rules prescribed in the field of ensuring the security of the state, governmental order, state and public order, protection of the nature, health of the population, and other rules, ensuring the compliance therewith falls within their official duties.
Within the meaning of this Code, an official of a political party shall be a member of the executive body of a political party responsible for actions (inaction) entailing liability by this Code, or a responsible member or employee of a political party that performs organisational-managerial, administrative and economic functions, based on the Charter or other documents of a political party.
(Article 14 supplemented by HO-4-N of 29 December 2020, HO-343-N of 2 October 2024)
Article 15. Liability of military servicepersons and other persons for committing administrative offences, subject to disciplinary codes
Officers of the republican executive bodies of defence, national security, state preservation and the police and the rescue service of the Republic of Armenia, military servicepersons, as well as conscripts called up for mobilisation, shall bear disciplinary liability for administrative offences. Persons referred to in this part shall bear administrative liability on general basis for violating the rules of hunting, fishing and conservation of fishery resources, violating customs rules, violating the requirements of the legislation in the field of ensuring road traffic safety. Administrative penalty shall not be imposed on the specified persons for violating the rules of hunting, fishing and conservation of fishery resources, violating customs rules. Administrative penalty shall not be imposed on the specified persons for violating the requirements of the legislation in the field of ensuring road traffic safety where the offence has been committed by service vehicles.
Persons other than those referred to in this part, subject to disciplinary codes or specific disciplinary statutes, shall bear disciplinary liability for administrative offences in cases explicitly provided for thereby, and in the rest of cases — administrative liability on general basis.
In cases referred to in the first part of this Article the bodies that are vested with the right to impose administrative fines, may, rather than imposing fines, transfer the materials on offences to relevant bodies to resolve the issue of subjecting guilty persons to disciplinary liability.
(Article 15 edited by HO-32-N of 16 December 2005, edited, amended by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012, edited by HO-178-N of 21 December 2015, amended by HO-82-N of 16 May 2016, supplemented by HO-233-N of 16 December 2016, HO-457-N of 15 November 2024)
Article 16. Liability of foreign citizens and stateless persons
Foreign citizens and stateless persons in the territory of the Republic of Armenia shall be subject to administrative liability on general basis as the USSR citizens.
The issue of liability for administrative offences committed by the foreign citizens in the territory of the Republic of Armenia who enjoy the right to immunity with respect to administrative liability of the USSR and the Republic of Armenia under the effective laws and international agreements of the USSR shall be resolved through diplomatic channels.
Article 17. Extreme necessity
The person who, although having committed an action provided for by this Code or by other regulatory acts prescribing administrative liability for administrative offences, has acted in a situation of extreme necessity, i.e. to eliminate a danger threatening the state or public order, the socialist property, the rights and freedoms of citizens, the established governmental order, where under the given circumstances that danger could not have been eliminated by other means and where the damage caused is of lesser importance than the damage prevented, shall not be subject to administrative liability.
Article 18. Necessary defence
The person who, although having committed an action provided for by this Code or by other regulatory acts prescribing administrative liability for administrative offences, has acted in a state of necessary defence, i.e. he or she has been protecting the state or public order, the socialist property, the rights and freedoms of citizens, the established governmental order against criminal encroachment by causing damage to the person committing encroachment, moreover, where the necessary defence limits have not been exceeded, shall not be subject to administrative liability.
Article 19. Insanity
A person, who has been in a state of insanity while committing an illegal action or inaction, i.e. due to chronic mental illness, temporary mental impairment, dementia or other morbid condition he or she could not realise his or her actions or to control those actions, shall not be subject to administrative liability.
Article 20. Transferring the materials on administrative offences to comrades' court, non-governmental organisation or labour collective for examination
A person having committed an administrative offence shall be released from administrative liability, and the materials shall be transferred to the comrades’ court, non-governmental organisation or labour collective for examination, where it is appropriate to impose a measure of public influence thereon, considering the nature of the offence committed and the personality of the offender.
The materials on the persons released, on the grounds referred to in the first part of this Article, from the administrative liability for committing offences provided for by Articles 126, 129, 133, 159, 163, 174-177 of this Code, may also be transferred to the Commission against Alcoholism established in an enterprise, an institution, organisation and their structural subdivisions for examination.
The administration, the Commission against Alcoholism established in the enterprise, institution, organisation and their structural subdivisions, comrades’ court or the non-governmental organisation shall — within a period of ten days from the day of obtaining the materials — be obliged to notify the body having sent the materials (the official) of the measures of public influence imposed on persons having committed administrative offences provided for by Articles 53, 126, 129, 133, 159, 163, 165, 172, 174-177 of this Code.
Article 21. Possibility of releasing from administrative liability for an offence of lesser significance
Where the administrative offence committed is of lesser significance, the body authorised to decide the case (the official) may release the offender from administrative liability and content itself with oral reprimand.
In cases when the violation of the road traffic rule has been captured through video-recording or photographing, the procedure prescribed by the first part of this Article may also be applied during the appeal proceedings by way of superiority.
(Article 21 supplemented by HO-78-N of 21 June 2014)
Article 21.1. Releasing from liability persons subjected to human trafficking or exploitation
1. A person subjected to human trafficking or exploitation shall be released from administrative liability for the offence which he or she has committed under coercion in the course of the human trafficking or exploitation against them.
(Article 21.1 supplemented by HO-213-N of 17 December 2014)
Article 21.2. Amnesty
1. A person having committed an administrative offence may be fully or partially released from administrative liability by the Law "On amnesty" adopted by the National Assembly, and a person subjected to an administrative penalty may be fully or partially exempted from both the main and supplementary administrative penalties.
(Article 21.2 supplemented by HO-372-N of 12 July 2018)
CHAPTER 3
ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY
Article 22. Objectives of an administrative penalty
An administrative penalty shall be considered as a penalty and shall be applied, pursuing an objective of educating the person having committed an administrative offence in the spirit of abiding by the Soviet laws, respecting the rules of socialist community life, as well as preventing him or her, i.e. the offender, and other persons from committing new offences.
Article 23. Types of administrative penalties
The following administrative penalties may be imposed for committing administrative offences:
(1) warning;
(1.1) penalty point;
(2) fine;
(3) compensated seizure of an item deemed an instrument or a direct object for committing an administrative offence;
(4) confiscation of an item deemed an instrument or a direct object for committing an administrative offence;
(4.1) suspension of the right to drive vehicles;
(5) deprivation of the special right;
(6) (point repealed by HO-32-N of 16 December 2005)
(7) (point repealed by HO-32-N of 16 December 2005)
(8) suspension of economic activity.
Legislative acts of the USSR and the Republic of Armenia may define also types of administrative penalties other than those referred to in this Article, in compliance with the principles of fundamentals and general provisions of the legislation of the USSR and the Union Republics on administrative offences.
The legislation of the USSR may also provide for administrative eviction of foreign citizens and stateless persons from the borders of the USSR for committing administrative offences gravely violating the Soviet legal order.
(Article 23 edited on 1 May 1992, amended by HO-85 of 4 November 1996, HO-133 of 23 June 1997, HO-32-N of 16 December 2005, supplemented, edited by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019, supplemented by HO-456-N of 9 October 2020)
Article 24. Main and supplementary administrative penalties
Penalty points, compensated seizure and confiscation of items may be imposed both as main and supplementary administrative penalties; other administrative penalties listed in the first part of Article 23 of this Code may be imposed only as main penalties.
Main or main and supplementary penalties may be imposed for one administrative offence.
(Article 24 amended by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019)
Article 25. Warning
Warning, as a measure of administrative penalty, may be made in writing. In cases provided for by the legislation the warning may be recorded by other means prescribed.
Article 25.1. Penalty points
1. Penalty points shall be applied to persons having committed violation of road traffic rules (legislation in the field of ensuring the road traffic safety) in the cases explicitly provided for by the Special Part of this Code.
2. A person having the right to drive vehicles shall be granted 9 points for a period of one year from the day of obtaining a driving licence for the right to drive vehicles in the Republic of Armenia (from the day of expiry of the period of suspension of the right to drive vehicles). A foreigner holding a driving licence obtained in the other state and record-registered in the State Register of Population shall be granted points from the day of record-registration in the State Register of Population (from the day of expiry of the period of suspension of the right to drive vehicles). A person having the right to drive vehicles shall be granted 9 points for a period of each subsequent one year, and the balance of points of the previous year shall not be transferred to the subsequent year.
3. In case a violation of the road traffic rules (of the legislation in the field of ensuring road traffic safety) is recorded, the penalty points prescribed for the offence provided for by the relevant Article of the Special Part of this Code shall automatically be taken off the total points granted to the person having committed an administrative offence in the given year (within a period of one year).
4. Appealing against the decision imposing an administrative penalty in the form of a penalty point may not prevent the emergence of its legal implications for administrative offences committed in the given year and provided for by Article 129.3 of this Code where as a result of examination of the appeal, the decision on imposing an administrative penalty enters into force during the subsequent year.
5. Where the points taken off for the offence provided for by the relevant Article of the Special Part of this Code exceed the balance of points granted to the person, the penalty points shall be taken off in the amount of that balance, regardless of the amount of the penalty points prescribed for the given offence.
6. Penalty points 0.5, 1, 2, 3 or 4 shall be applied as a measure of administrative liability for administrative offences provided for by this Code.
(Article 25.1 supplemented by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019)
Article 26. Fine
(Article 26 amended by HO-73 of 11 May 1992, 18 August 1993, HO-133 of 23 June 1997, repealed by HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 27. Compensated seizure of an item deemed an instrument or a direct object for committing an administrative offence
Compensated seizure of an item deemed an instrument or a direct object for committing an administrative offence shall be the act of compulsory seizure and then sales of the item, by transferring the received amount to the former owner and deducting the costs for selling the seized item.
Compensated seizure of weapon and ammunition may not be applied to persons, for whom hunting is the main source of survival.
The procedure for compensated seizure and types of objects subject to seizure shall be established by the legislation of the USSR, this Code and other legislation of the Republic of Armenia.
(Article 27 amended by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022, HO-45-N of 16 January 2024)
Article 28. Confiscation of an item deemed an instrument or a direct object for committing an administrative offence
Confiscation of an item deemed an instrument or a direct object for committing an administrative offence shall be the act of transferring that article to state or community ownership compulsorily and without compensation.
Confiscation of weapon, other hunting tools and ammunition may not be applied to persons, for whom hunting is the main source of survival.
The procedure for confiscation, the list of objects not subject to confiscation shall be established by the legislation of the USSR, this Code and other legislation of the Republic of Armenia.
Property belonging to a bona fide third party shall not be subject to confiscation. Within the meaning of this Article, a party shall be bona fide, where he or she did not know and could not have known that the property delivered thereby to another party will be used or is planned to be used as an instrument or a direct object for committing an administrative offence.
(Article 28 edited by HO-133 of 11 May 1992, 23 June 1997, amended by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022, supplemented, amended by HO-116-N of 22 March 2023, amended by HO-45-N of 16 January 2024)
Article 28.1. Suspension of the right to drive vehicles
1. Suspension of the right to drive vehicles may be imposed for a period of one month to six months.
(Article 28.1 supplemented by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019)
Article 29. Deprivation of the special right
(title edited by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019)
1. Deprivation of the special right shall be temporary deprivation of the right to drive vehicles or the right to hunt.
2. Deprivation of the right to drive vehicles or the right to hunt may be imposed for a period of one month to three years.
3. Deprivation of the right to hunt may not be imposed on persons for whom hunting is the main source of livelihood.
(Article 29 amended by HO-85 of 4 November 1996, HO-73-N of 21 February 2007, edited by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019)
Article 30. Correctional works
(Article 30 repealed by HO-32-N of 16 December 2005)
Article 31. Administrative detention
(Article 31 edited on 1 July 1991, repealed by HO-32-N of 16 December 2005)
Article 31.1. Suspension of economic activity
1. Suspension of economic activity shall be temporary termination of the economic activity.
2. Suspension of economic activity may be imposed for a period of one month to three months.
(Article 31.1 supplemented by HO-456-N of 9 October 2020)
CHAPTER 4
IMPOSING AN ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY
Article 32. General rules for imposing a penalty for an administrative offence
A penalty shall be imposed for an administrative offence within the scope prescribed by the regulatory act providing for liability for the offence, in due compliance with the fundamentals of the legislation of the Union of SSR and the Union Republics on administrative offences, this Code and other acts on administrative offences.
When imposing a penalty, the nature of the offence commited, the personality of the offender, the degree of the guilt , property status thereof, circumstances mitigating and aggravating the liability shall be taken into consideration.
In cases when the violation of the road traffic rule has been captured through video-recording or photographing, the administrative liability provided for by this Code shall be borne by the owner of the vehicle (in case of state registration of the right of leasing — a lessee) (in case of a legal person or an individual entrepreneur — the head of the legal person or the individual entrepreneur, respectively), or the person considered to be the operator of the vehicle provided for by the Law "On ensuring road traffic safety", unless it is demonstrated that the violation has been committed by other person. The administrative penalty imposed in the form of penalty points shall be applied to persons referred to in this part, where they have the right to drive a vehicle of the given class.
The peculiarities of administrative proceedings conducted with respect to violations of road traffic rules detected through video-recording or photography devices shall be prescribed by law.
The peculiarities of the proceedings on cases concerning offences provided for by part 1 of Article 129.2 of this Code shall be prescribed by the Law of the Republic of Armenia "On compulsory insurance against liability arising from the use of motor vehicles".
(Article 32 supplemented by HO-26-N of 16 December 2005, edited by HO-73-N of 21 February 2007, HO-239-N of 26 December 2008, amended by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012, supplemented by HO-94-N of 19 June 2013, amended by HO-178-N of 21 December 2015, amended, supplemented by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019, amended by HO-320-N of 18 June 2020)
Article 33. Circumstances mitigating the liability for an administrative offence
The circumstances mitigating the liability for an administrative offence shall be the following:
(1) sincere repentance by the guilty person;
(2) preventing by the guilty person harmful consequences of the offence, voluntarily compensating for or eliminating the damage caused;
(3) committing an offence in the heat of passion or by coincidence of difficult personal or family circumstances;
(4) committing an offence by a minor;
(5) committing an offence by a pregnant woman or a woman having a child under the age of one.
The legislation of the USSR and the Republic of Armenia may provide for also other circumstances mitigating the liability for an administrative offence. The body (official) disposing a case concerning the administrative liability may consider as mitigating also such circumstances that are not specified in the legislation.
Article 34. Circumstances aggravating the liability for an administrative offence
The circumstances aggravating the liability for an administrative offence shall be the following:
(1) continuing the illegal behaviour despite the request of the body authorised therefor to stop it;
(2) repeated commission of such an offence within one year, for which the person has already been subjected to an administrative penalty; committing an offence by a person having previously committed a crime;
(3) involving a minor in the offence;
(4) committing an offence by a group of persons;
(5) committing an offence during a natural disaster or in other emergency circumstances;
(6) committing an offence in the state of drunkenness. The body (official) imposing an administrative penalty, depending on the nature of the administrative offence, may not consider the given circumstance as aggravating.
Article 35. Imposing administrative penalties in case of committing several administrative offences
In case one person commits two or more administrative offences, an administrative penalty shall be imposed for each offence separately.
(Article 35 amended by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019)
Article 36. Calculating the time limit for deprivation of the special right
The time limit for deprivation of the special right shall be calculated in years, months or days.
(Article 36 edited by HO-32-N of 16 December 2005)
Article 37. Time limits for imposing an administrative penalty
An administrative penalty may be imposed not later than within two months from the day of committing the offence, except for the cases provided for by this Article, whereas7 in case of a continuing and continuous offence — within two months from the day of disclosing it, except for the cases provided for by this Article.
In the event of refusal to initiate a criminal case or dismissal of the criminal case, but when the actions of the offender bear elements of an administrative offence, the administrative penalty may be imposed not later than within one month from the day of rendering a decision on refusal to initiate the criminal case or dismissal of the criminal case.
The administrative penalty in cases concerning the violation of customs rules may be imposed within two months from the day of detecting the offence, but not later than within 3 years from the day of committing the offence.
Where the administrative offence could not be detect without conducting relevant inspections or observations, the administrative penalty may be imposed not later than within two months following the day of disclosing the administrative offence through the inspection or observation.
The administrative penalty in cases concerning administrative offences provided for by Articles 40.3, 189.13, 189.14, 189.15, 189.16, 189.19-189.24 of this Code may be imposed within two months following the day of detecting the offence, but not later than within two years following the commission of the offence, except for the cases provided for by part 4 of this Article.
6. Based on the statements of claim provided for by Article 223 of this Code the administrative penalty shall be imposed within the time limit prescribed by the Administrative Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia.
7. The administrative penalty in cases concerning administrative offences provided for by Articles 169.28 and 169.31 of this Code may be imposed within one year following the commission of the offence.
7.1. The administrative penalty in cases concerning administrative penalties provided for by Article 166.1 of this Code may be imposed within three years following the commission of the offence.
8. The administrative penalty in cases concerning administrative offences in the field of protection of economic competition may be imposed within three months from the day of entry into force of the decision of the Competition Protection Commission confirming the fact of offence, except for offences committed by natural persons considered to be economic entities prescribed by the Law "On protection of economic competition", in which case the administrative penalty may be imposed within the time limit provided for by part 1 of Article 95 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia "On protection of economic competition".
9. In case of administrative offences recorded in inspection or other administrative acts drawn up following the tax control exercised by the tax authority the administrative penalty may be imposed not later than within two months after the inspection or other administrative act becomes unappealable.
10. Where the addressee of the administrative act has failed to appear at the proceedings on administrative offences in cases concerning administrative offences examined by the tax and customs authorities, and the Law excludes the possibility of adopting the relevant administrative act in his or her absence, or the adoption of the administrative act is possible only in case of identification of the addressee of that act, or an expert examination has been assigned, the administrative penalty may be imposed within one month after the addressee of the administrative act appears at the proceedings, the addressee of the administrative act is identified or the opinion of the expert examination is delivered, but not later than within one year from the day the offence is committed.
11. An administrative penalty in cases concerning administrative offences in the field of ensuring the state security may be imposed within three months from the day of entry into force of the decision confirming the fact of offence, but not later than within three years following the commission of the offence.
(Article 37 edited by HO-73 of 18 August 1993, HO-133-N of 23 June 1997, supplemented by HO-138-N of 13 June 2006, HO-155-N of 11 May 2011, HO-11-N of 9 February 2012, HO-143-N of 5 December 2013, amended by HO-15-N of 16 May 2014, supplemented by HO-106-N of 9 June 2017, HO-250-N of 23 March 2018, HO-200-N of 24 October 2019, amended by HO-206-N of 25 March 2020, HO-4-N of 29 December 2020, amended, supplemented by HO-94-N of 3 March 2021, supplemented by HO-289-N of 1 July 2021, HO-46-N of 4 March 2022, amended, supplemented by HO-542-N of 7 December 2022, supplemented by HO-87-N of 1 March 2023)
Article 38. Time limit, after the expiry of which the person is considered not subjected to an administrative penalty
Where the person subjected to an administrative penalty has not committed a new administrative offence within one year from the day of completing the execution of a penalty, that person shall be considered as not subjected to an administrative penalty.
Article 39. Imposing an obligation to compensate for the damage caused
Where due to committing an administrative offence property damage is caused to a citizen, an enterprise, an institution or an organisation, the administrative commission, the executive committee of the township, village council of deputies, the Commission on Juvenile Cases, the people's judge shall, in resolving the issue of imposing a penalty for an administrative offence, have the right to concurrently resolve the issue of compensation by the guilty person for the property damage, unless the amount of the damage exceeds fifty drams, and the regional (city) people's court — irrespective of the amount of the damage.
In other cases the issue of compensation for the property damage caused by the administrative offence shall be resolved through civil procedure.
Article 40. Performance of the obligation, for non-performance of which an administrative penalty has been imposed
Imposing an administrative penalty shall not release the person having committed an administrative offence from performing the obligation, for non-performance of which an administrative penalty has been imposed.
SPECIAL PART II
CHAPTER 5
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFENCES AGAINST RIGHTS OF CITIZENS AND HEALTH OF POPULATION
Article 40.1. Conducting campaign on the voting day or on the day preceding it
(title edited by HO-55-N of 25 May 2016)
Conducting a campaign through public speeches, public events on the voting day and the day preceding it —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of four-hundred-fold to six-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
Conducting a campaign — on the voting day and the day preceding it — via the print media, radio and television companies carrying out terrestrial on-air broadcasting through cable network (including during satellite broadcasting) or through the Internet —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the person or the head carrying out media activities in the amount of five-hundred-fold to seven-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
(Article 401 amended by HO-79 of 2 August 1991, 2 September 1993, HO-137 of 19 May 1995, HO-287 of 19 March 1999, edited by HO-165-N of 26 May 2011, HO-55-N of 25 May 2016, supplemented by HO-182-N of 28 April 2021, HO-205-N of 7 May 2021)
Article 40.2. Failure to sign the protocol on the voting results by a member of the electoral or referendum commission
(title edited by HO-55-N of 25 May 2016)
Failure to sign the protocol on the voting results by a member of the electoral or referendum commission —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
(Article 402 supplemented by HO-287 of 19 March 1999, edited by HO-165-N of 26 May 2011, HO-55-N of 25 May 2016)
Article 40.3. Failure by a candidate or a political party (alliance of political parties) to set up a campaign fund, submit a declaration on contributions made to the campaign fund and their use, submitting the declaration in violation of the procedure prescribed by law, or failure to make election campaign-related expenses from the campaign fund
(title edited by HO-55-N of 25 May 2016, HO-182-N of 28 April 2021)
1. Failure by a candidate or a political party (alliance of political parties) to set up a campaign fund, where setting it up shall be an obligation prescribed by law, submit a declaration on contributions made to the campaign fund and their use within the time limit prescribed by law, submitting the declaration in violation of the procedure prescribed by law, or failure to make election campaign-related expenses from the campaign fund —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of three-hundred-fold to five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
(Article 403 amended by HO-137 of 2 August 1991, 19 May 1995, HO-287 of 19 March 1999, edited by HO-55-N of 25 May 2016, HO-376-N of 7 September 2018, HO-182-N of 28 April 2021)
(the Article as amended by Law HO-511-N of 5 December 2024 shall enter into force on 1 April 2025)
Article 40.4. Failure to close the sack of election or referendum related documents at the precinct electoral commission in the prescribed manner
(title edited by HO-55-N of 25 May 2016)
Failure to close the sack of election or referendum related documents at the precinct electoral commission in the prescribed manner —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of three-hundred-fold to five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
(Article 404 amended by HO-79 of 2 August 1991, 2 September 1993, HO-287 of 19 March 1999, edited by HO-165-N of 26 May 2011, HO-55-N of 25 May 2016)
Article 40.5. Entering a polling station with a weapon
(Article 405 repealed by HO-145-N of 9 April 2007)
Article 40.6. Failure to fill in the registration book of the electoral commission under the prescribed procedure
(new 2nd Article 406 adopted by HO-287 of 19 March 1999, edited by HO-55-N of 25 May 2016, supplemented by HO-376-N of 7 September 2018)
Failure to fill in the registration book of the electoral commission under the prescribed procedure —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of up to three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
(Article 406 supplemented by HO-287 of 19 March 1999, edited by HO-55-N of 25 May 2016, supplemented by HO-376-N of 7 September 2018)
Article 40.7. Violation of the procedure prescribed by law for conducting election campaign through mass media
Failure to ensure equal conditions — air time or volume, tariff, etc. — for conducting election campaign of candidates, political parties (alliances of political parties) through mass media, except for media outlets founded by political parties —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the person carrying out media activities in the amount of four-hundred-fold to six-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
Presenting obviously biased and/or judgmental information on the election campaign conducted by candidates, political parties (alliances of political parties) in news programmes broadcast by a television and radio company (by a television company or a radio company) within the time period prescribed by law for conducting an election campaign —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the person carrying out media activities in the amount of six-hundred-fold to eight-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
Coverage of elections by a television and radio company (by a television company or a radio company) and/or hosting a television and radio programme (a television programme or a radio programme) — by employees of television and radio companies until the completion of elections, after being registered as a candidate as prescribed by law —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the person carrying out media activities in the amount of six-hundred-fold to eight-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
Interrupting the television and radio programmes (television programmes or radio programmes) concerning an election campaign by a commercial advertisement within the time period prescribed by law for conducting an election campaign —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the person or the head carrying out media activities in the amount of three-hundred-fold to five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
(Article 407 supplemented by HO-287 of 19 March 1999, edited by HO-165-N of 26 May 2011, HO-55-N of 25 May 2016)
(the Article as amended by HO-511-N of 5 December 2024 shall enter into force on 1 April 2025)
Article 40.8. Conducting an election campaign or referendum campaign by a person not having the right to conduct a campaign or using thereby administrative resources for the purpose of an election campaign or referendum campaign
(title edited by HO-55-N of 25 May 2016, HO-319-N of 4 May 2018, HO-182-N of 28 April 2021)
1. Conducting an election or referendum campaign — within the time period prescribed by law for campaign — by a person not having the right to conduct an election or referendum campaign —
shall entail imposition of a fine on citizens in the amount of one-hundred-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary, and on officials — in the amount of two-hundred-fold to four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
2. Use of administrative resources for election or referendum campaign purposes, including financial and information means, premises, means of transport and communication, human resources provided for performing official duties, except for the security measures applicable in respect of high-ranking officials subject to state protection under the Law “On ensuring the safety of persons subject to special state protection”, as well as use of official position to gain advantage at elections —
shall entail imposition of a fine on citizens in the amount of two-hundred-fold to four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary, and on officials — in the amount of four-hundred-fold to eight-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
(Article 408 supplemented by HO-165-N of 26 May 2011, edited by HO-55-N of 25 May 2016, HO-319-N of 4 May 2018, HO-182-N of 28 April 2021)
Article 40.9. Violation of the procedure prescribed by law for publishing sociological or journalistic surveys in relation to ratings of candidates, political parties (alliances of political parties), as well as to the issue put to referendum
(title edited by HO-55-N of 25 May 2016, supplemented by HO-205-N of 7 May 2021)
Failure to specify the information provided for by law in the sociological or journalistic surveys in relation to ratings of candidates, political parties (alliances of political parties), as well as to the issue put to referendum when publishing it within the time period prescribed by law for conducting election campaign —
shall entail imposition of a fine on natural persons in the amount of one-hundred-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary, and on the organisation conducting a survey — in the amount of three-hundred-fold to five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
Publishing the results of sociological or journalistic survey in relation to candidates, political parties (alliance of political parties) running in elections, as well as information thereon via mass media, including on television and radio carrying out broadcasting through cable network, satellite connection or terrestrial on-air broadcasting, or via the print media, as well as through the Internet on the day preceding the voting, as well as by 20:00 on the voting day —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the natural person or the organisation having made the publication in the amount of eight-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
Committing the same violation more than once during the same election (referendum) —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the organisation having made a publication, for the second case of publication — in the amount of one-thousand-fold of the minimum salary, and for each subsequent violation — in the amount of two-fold of the fine imposed for the previous case.
(Article 409 supplemented by HO-165-N of 26 May 2011, edited by HO-55-N of 25 May 2016, supplemented, edited by HO-205-N of 7 May 2021)
Article 40.10. Providing (promising) money, food, securities, goods to electors or rendering (promising) services to them by candidates, political parties (alliances of political parties)
(Article repealed by HO-376-N of 7 September 2018)
Article 40.11. Disseminating printed campaign materials in the absence of prerequisites prescribed by law, tearing off, scratching or making notes on campaign posters
(title edited by HO-55-N of 25 May 2016)
Disseminating printed campaign materials that contain no information on the client of the printed campaign material, the printing organisation and the print run within the time period provided for by law for conducting an election campaign —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
Intentionally tearing off, scratching or making notes on campaign posters posted in places designated for posting campaign posters within the time period provided for by law for conducting an election or referendum campaign —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold to one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
(Article 4011 supplemented by HO-165-N of 26 May 2011, edited by HO-55-N of 25 May 2016)
(the Article as amended by Law HO-511-N of 5 December 2024 shall enter into force on 1 April 2025)
Article 40.12. Failure to comply with the requirements of the electoral commission’s decision on eliminating the violation in case of violation of the prescribed procedure for election campaign by candidates, political parties, alliances of political parties
(title edited by HO-55-N of 25 May 2016)
Failure to comply with the requirements of the electoral commission’s decision on eliminating the violation within the time limits specified therein in case candidates, political parties, alliances of political parties have violated the prescribed procedure for election campaign, or failure to inform the electoral commission thereof in writing —
shall entail imposition of a fine — in case of elections of the National Assembly, the Council of Elders of Yerevan, Gyumri, Vanadzor — on a political party, alliance of political parties in the amount of one-hundred-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary, and in case of elections of a head of the community and a member of the Council of Elders — on a candidate in the amount of fifty-fold to one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
Committing by the same entity the same violation more than once during the same election —
shall entail imposition of a fine — for each subsequent violation — in the amount of two-fold of the fine imposed for the previous case.
(Article 4012 supplemented by HO-165-N of 26 May 2011, edited by HO-55-N of 25 May 2016)
Article 40.13. Failure to exercise or improper exercise of his or her powers, on the voting day, by the person (the specialist) maintaining the technical equipment that carries out registration of electors and is provided to the precinct electoral commission
Failure to exercise or improper exercise of his or her powers, on the voting day, by the person (the specialist) maintaining the technical equipment that carries out registration of electors and is provided to the precinct electoral commission —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
(Article 40.13 supplemented by HO-159-N of 20 October 2016)
Article 40.14. Refusal by a member of the precinct electoral commission to substitute the person maintaining the technical equipment that carries out registration of electors and is provided to the precinct electoral commission
Refusal by a member of the precinct electoral commission to substitute the person maintaining the technical equipment that carries out registration of electors and is provided to the precinct electoral commission —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
(Article 40.14 supplemented by HO-159-N of 20 October 2016)
Article 40.15. Violation of the rules for being present in the polling station or on the territory adjacent to the polling station
(title supplemented by HO-205-N of 7 May 2021)
1. Regularly entering the polling station (where the action has continued after a verbal warning) or being illegally present (where the action has continued after making a verbal request to leave the polling station) by a person not having the right to be present at the polling station or in the voting room during the preparation of the voting, the voting and the summarisation of voting results —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary.
2. Intentional failure by a person having the right to be present in the voting room, to carry, in a visible manner, his or her identification badge as prescribed by law —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary.
3. On voting day, the continuous presence of a person on the territory — with up to 50 metre radius — adjacent to a polling station, including the entrance thereof for the purpose of control over the free expression of the will of an elector, where it has continued after a verbal warning —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary.
(Article 40.15 supplemented by HO-376-N of 7 September 2018, HO-205-N of 7 May 2021)
Article 40.16. Carrying out charity work by organisations within the time period prohibited by law
1. Carrying out charity work — within the time period from the day of entry into force of the decision on calling for elections or a referendum until summarisation of the results of the elections or referendum — by organisations, the names of which may be associated with the names of the political parties running in elections, or by organisations managed by political parties, as well as organisations, the founder (founders) or head of which has (have) been nominated as a candidate in the given elections in the communities where elections are held —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the official of the organisation in the amount of two-hundred-fold to four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
(Article 40.16 supplemented by HO-205-N of 7 May 2021)
Article 40.17. Failure by the political party (the political party included in the alliance of political parties) or the candidate to submit a declaration of property and income
(the Article as supplemented by Law HO-511-N of 5 December 2024 shall enter into force on 1 April 2025)
Article 40.18. Providing by the head of the community incorrect information about the specifications of the polling station and the voting room, failure thereby to fulfil the duty to designate the polling station and the voting room or furnish the voting room, failure thereby to allocate free billboards for posting campaign posters, printed campaign and other materials
(the Article as supplemented by Law HO-511-N of 5 December 2024 shall enter into force on 1 April 2025)
Article 40.19. Placing campaign posters, printed campaign and other materials in violation of the procedure prescribed by law or in a place not permitted by law, or failure to remove them
(the Article as supplemented by Law HO-511-N of 5 December 2024 shall enter into force on 1 April 2024)
Article 41. Violation of the requirements of the labour legislation and other regulatory legal acts containing norms of the labour law
Violation of the requirements of the labour legislation and other regulatory legal acts containing norms of the labour law (except for the cases provided for by Article 411, 412, 41.6, 961, part eighteen of Article 158, Articles 1695, 1698 of this Code) —
shall entail warning against the person having committed the violation.
Violation of the requirements of the labour legislation and other regulatory legal acts containing norms of the labour law, committed within one year after applying an administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the employer in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 41 edited by HO-78-N of 24 March 2005, edited, amended by HO-296-N of 6 December 2007, amended by HO-118-N of 24 June 2010, supplemented, amended by HO-266-N of 4 December 2019, amended by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 41.1. Hindering the exercise of rights of representatives of employees
Hindering the exercise of rights of representatives of employees prescribed by the Labour Code of the Republic of Armenia —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the person having committed a violation in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, for each case of violation.
Repeated commission of the same violation within one year after applying measures of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the person having committed a violation in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, for each case of violation.
(Article 41.1 supplemented by HO-296-N of 6 December 2007)
Article 41.2. Impeding all or individual employees to attend their workplaces, refusing to provide work to employees, subjecting employees to disciplinary liability for participating in a strike after adoption of a decision on calling a strike and during the strike
Impeding all or individual employees to attend their workplaces, refusing to provide work to employees, subjecting employees to disciplinary liability for participating in a strike after adoption of a decision on calling a strike and during the strike —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the person having committed a violation in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Repeated commission of the same violation within one year after applying measures of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the person having committed a violation in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 41.2 supplemented by HO-296-N of 6 December 2007)
Article 41.3. Failure to submit a report to the State Labour Inspectorate
(Article repealed by HO-118-N of 24 June 2010)
Article 41.4. Failure to make withdrawals provided for by Article 20 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia "On employment"
Failure to make a withdrawal —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the employer for each day of default in the amount of 0.15 percent of the withdrawal amount subject to payment, but not more than the amount due.
(Article 41.4 supplemented by HO-153-N of 11 December 2013)
Article 41.5. Failure to record the reporting by a whistle-blower of information on a case of corruption or violation in respect of conflict of interests, or rules of conduct, or incompatibility requirements, or other restrictions or declaration, or other harm to public interests or the threat thereof, to initiate proceedings based thereon in case of existence of grounds, to ensure confidentiality of the proceedings initiated, to enable the whistle-blower to furnish clarifications, documents and applications, to provide, upon the request of the whistle-blower, information on the progress of proceedings and the measures undertaken, to undertake measures for verifying the authenticity of the report, protecting the whistle-blower against harmful actions, as well as eliminating the harmful actions and the consequences thereof
(title amended by HO-499-N of 7 December 2022)
1. Failure to record the reporting by a whistle-blower of information on a case of corruption or violation in respect of conflict of interests, or rules of conduct, or incompatibility requirements, or other restrictions or declaration, or other harm to public interests or the threat thereof, to initiate proceedings based thereon in case of existence of grounds, to ensure confidentiality of the proceedings initiated, to enable the whistle-blower to furnish clarifications, documents and applications, to provide, upon the request of the whistle-blower, information on the process of proceedings and the measures undertaken, to undertake measures for verifying the authenticity of the report, protecting the whistle-blower against harmful actions, as well as eliminating the harmful actions and the consequences thereof, unless the given act contains elements of crime —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Failure to ensure confidentiality while processing the personal data of the whistle-blower, unless the given act contains elements of crime —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of three-hundred-fold to four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 41.5 supplemented by HO-106-N of 9 June 2017, amended by HO-499-N of 7 December 2022)
Article 41.6. Violation of the requirements for employing or permitting for work
1. Employing or engaging a person under the age of sixteen in work by the employer in violation of the requirements provided for by law, or engaging in or permitting a person under the age of eighteen for works prohibited by the labour legislation, or engaging in or permitting pregnant women or women taking care of a child under the age of one for works prohibited by the labour legislation or work under harmful or hazardous conditions of work —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Repeated commission of one of the acts prescribed by this Article within one year following the day of imposition of an administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 41.6 supplemented by HO-266-N of 4 December 2019)
Article 41.7. Violation of copyright and related rights
1. Misappropriation of authorship or illegal use of an object of copyright or related right, or sales of a creation without the consent of the holder of copyright or related rights, where it has caused a property damage on a small-scale to the author or other holder of rights —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold to one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Within the meaning of this Article, small-scale shall be considered to be the amount (value) not exceeding AMD 500 000.
(Article 41.7 supplemented by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022)
Article 41.8. Violation of the patent right
1. Illegal use of an object of patent right, or dissemination — without the applicant’s consent —of information concerning its essence before official recognition of that right, or misappropriation of authorship thereof, where it has caused a property damage on a small-scale —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold to one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Within the meaning of this Article, small-scale shall be considered to be the amount (value) not exceeding AMD 500 000.
(Article 41.8 supplemented by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022)
Article 41.9 Failure to conduct an official investigation into accidents or occupational diseases having occurred at the workplace, or failure to record the accident or occupational disease
1. The failure by the employer to conduct an official investigation into accidents or occupational diseases having occurred at the workplace under the procedure or within the time limit prescribed by law, or failure to record the accident or occupational disease —
shall entail warning or imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold to one-hundred-and-thirty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Repeated commission of any of the acts provided for by this Article within one year following the day of imposition of an administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the fine imposed for the previous case.
(Article 41.9 supplemented by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 42. Violation of sanitary, sanitary and hygienic, and sanitary and anti-epidemic rules and norms (other than the rules and norms in the field of food safety and for the protection of atmospheric air), hygienic standards, public healthcare standards
(title supplemented by HO-227-N of 27 November 2006, HO-215-N of 17 November 2017, HO-478-N of 5 December 2024)
Violation of sanitary, sanitary and hygienic, and sanitary and anti-epidemic rules and norms (other than the rules and norms in the field of food safety and for the protection of atmospheric air), hygienic standards, public healthcare standards —
shall entail imposition of a fine on citizens in the amount of ten-fold to fifty-fold, and on officials — in the amount of forty-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Repeated commission of the act provided for by part 1 of this Article within one year after applying measures of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the fine imposed for the previous case.
(Article 42 amended by HO-79 of 4 June 1991, 2 September 1993, HO-459-N of 6 November 2002, HO-171-N of 8 December 2004, supplemented, amended by HO-227-N of 27 November 2006, supplemented by HO-215-N of 17 November 2017, edited by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023, supplemented by HO-478-N of 5 December 2024)
Article 42.1. Failure to fulfil assignments of officials of the inspection body exercising supervision in the field of healthcare and over the labour legislation, or hindering the conduct of inspections, inspection visits, examinations and/or administrative proceedings by the inspection body
(Article repealed by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 43. Violation of the sanitary, sanitary and hygienic and sanitary and anti-epidemic rules, public healthcare standards in transport
(title supplemented by HO-227-N of 27 November 2006, HO-478-N of 5 December 2024)
Violation of established sanitary, sanitary and hygenic and sanitary and anti-epidemic rules, hygienic standards, public healthcare standards in railway transport —
shall entail imposition of a fine on citizens in the amount of ten-fold to twenty-fold, and on officials — in the amount of forty-fold to one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Violation of established sanitary and hygienic and sanitary and anti-epidemic rules, hygienic standards, public healthcare standards in air transport —
shall entail imposition of a fine on citizens in the amount of up to fifteen-fold, and on officials — in the amount of fifty-fold to one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 43 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-459-N of 6 November 2002, supplemented, amended by HO-227-N of 27 November 2006, supplemented by HO-478-N of 5 December 2024)
Article 43.1. Violation of the rules of garbage collection and sanitation, dumping consumption wastes in unauthorised sites
(title edited by HO-331-N of 22 May 2018)
1. Failure to organise garbage collection in a timely manner —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the official in the amount of one-hundred-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
1.1. Accumulation of garbage of three cubic metres or more in unauthorised and undesignated places and sites out of garbage boxes, garbage bins, as well as out of transhipment stations or landfills arranged or designated under the established procedure —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the official in the amount of one-hundred-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
2. Repeated commission of the violations provided for by parts 1 and 1.1 of this Article within one year following the day of imposition of an administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the official in the amount of two-hundred-fold to three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
2.1. Transporting and removing (dumping) the garbage without a contract on provision of garbage collection services or removing (dumping) the garbage outside the site (place) prescribed by the contract —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the legal person in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2.2. Repeated commission of the violation provided for by part 2.1 of this Article within one year following the day of imposition of an administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the legal person in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2.3. Submitting the head of the community inaccurate information on the type of activity in constructions (including in separate sections of constructions designed for separated economic activity) and in sites of provision of services outside the constructions, as well as inaccurate information on permanent or temporary non-performance of any activity by the person having the obligation to pay garbage collection fee —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the legal person in the amount of two-hundred-fold to three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
2.4. Repeated commission of the violation provided for by part 2.3 of this Article within one year following the day of imposition of an administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the legal person in the amount of five-hundred-fold to eight-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
3. In unauthorised and undesignated places and sites, out of garbage chutes, garbage collection chambers, garbage boxes, garbage bins, garbage collection centres and garbage collection vehicles, as well as out of transhipment stations or landfills arranged or designated under the established procedure:
(1) dumping consumption garbage of up to one cubic metre in volume —
shall entail of a fine on the natural person in the amount of twenty-fold to thirty-fold, and on the legal person — in the amount of eighty-fold to one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary;
(2) dumping consumption garbage of more than one cubic metre in volume —
shall entail a fine on the natural person in the amount of fifty-fold to eighty-fold, and on the legal person— in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary;
(3) committing the act prescribed by point 1 of part 3 of this Article from residential, public or buildings or other constructions of other purpose—
shall entail a fine on the natural person in the amount of thirty-fold to fifty-fold, and on the legal person— in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary;
(4) garbage in large dimensions (large household and non-household equipment occupying two and more square metres, including vehicle chassis, body of vehicle, metal scrap, electrical equipment or other similar items) —
shall entail a fine on the natural person in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold, and on the legal person — in the amount of two-hundred-fold to three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary;
(5) dumping batteries, electric accumulators, electric light bulbs, electronic products, graphite electrodes —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold to thirty-fold of the minimum salary;
(6) dumping up to 5 tires (except for bicycle tire) — shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold to thirty-fold of the minimum salary;
(7) dumping more than 5 tires (except for bicycle tire) —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary;
(8) dumping construction garbage up to one cubic metre in volume —
shall entail a fine on the natural person in the amount of twenty-fold to thirty-fold, and on the legal person — in the amount of sixty-fold to eighty-fold of the minimum salary;
(9) dumping construction garbage more than one cubic metre in volume —
shall entail a fine on the natural person in the amount of fifty-fold to eighty-fold, and on the legal person— in the amount of two-hundred-fold to three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary;
(10) biological waste (waste resulting from the reprocessing of food and non-food raw materials of animal origin, as well as waste generated from the activities of livestock, poultry and fish-breeding enterprises) —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the natural person in the amount of twenty-fold to thirty-fold, and on the legal person — in the amount of one-hundred-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
4. Committing the administrative offences provided for by part 3 of this Article in water systems, including irrigation canals, as well as in sanitary protection zones —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the amounts of the fines provided for by this Article for the given act.
5. Collection and transportation of construction garbage or garbage in large dimensions without a permit —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
6. Failure to transport the construction garbage by the route set by the head of the community or failure to place it in the site allocated under the established procedure —
shall entail a fine on the natural person in the amount of thirty-fold to fifty-fold, and on the legal person — in the amount of fifty-fold to eighty-fold of the minimum salary.
7. Throwing garbage from a vehicle —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-five-fold of the minimum salary.
7.1. Placing medical garbage, garbage of one cubic metre and more, combustible, burning or hot waste, snow and ice into receptacles designed for solid household garbage — garbage bins or containers, provided by the community or the garbage collection operator, as well as placing the garbage that may cause damage to the life and health of the persons responsible for garbage disposal —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the natural person in the amount of five-fold to ten-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on the legal person — in the amount of twenty-fold to thirty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
8. Organisation and operation of a temporary storage facility for consumption waste of fifty tons or more, without an appropriate permit —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of three-hundred-fold to four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
8.1. Failure by owners or users of land parcels to inform — not later than within 24 hours after detection of garbage not belonging to them in their territory — the local self-government body—
shall entail imposition of a fine on the natural person in the amount of three-fold to five-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on the legal person — in the amount of eight-fold to ten-fold of the minimum salary defined.
8.2. Failure to take relevant measures within a period of three days after informing the local self-government body of garbage detected in the territory of owners or users of land parcels but not belonging to them —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the official in the amount of twenty-fold to thirty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
9. Organisation and operation of landfills, garbage collection centres and waste transhipment stations, without an appropriate permit —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
10. Repeated commission of the offences prescribed by parts 3-8 of this Article within one year following the day of imposition of an administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the amounts of the fines provided for by this Article for the given act.
10.1. Placing explosive and flammable materials, biological garbage generated by medical institutions, slaughterhouses, and other biological garbage, as well as liquid garbage not stored in special containers in landfills —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the natural person in the amount of ten-fold to twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on the legal person — in the amount of eighty-fold to one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
10.2. Repeated commission of the violation provided for by part 10.1 of this Article within one year following the day of imposition of an administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the natural person in the amount of thirty-fold to fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on the legal person — in the amount of two-hundred-fold to three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
10.3. Organisaton of open burning of garbage in landfills —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the natural person in the amount of twenty-fold to thirty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on the legal person — in the amount of two-hundred-fold to three-hundred fold of the minimum salary defined.
10.4. Repeated commission of the violation provided for by part 10.3 of this Article within one year following the day of imposition of an administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the natural person in the amount of fifty-fold to eighty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on the legal person — in the amount of five-hundred-fold to eight-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
10.5 Failure to fulfil the minimum requirements for the improvement and operation of the existing landfills —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the landfill operator in the amount of one-hundred-fold to three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
10.6. Failure to exercise oversight over the landfill for the purpose of identifying and preventing the harmful impact on the environment, as well as failure to undertake fire safety measures to prevent spontaneous combustion of garbage —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the landfill operator in the amount of eighty-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
11. Commission of the administrative offences provided for by parts 3-8 of this Article in specially protected areas of nature and/or areas of cultural and natural heritage —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the amounts of the fines provided for by this Article for the given act.
11.1. The facts recorded through video-recording or photography equipment may also be used as evidence to detect the offences prescribed by parts 1.1 and 3-7 of this Article.
12. Where, in cases referred to in part 3 of this Article, the person having committed an administrative offence eliminates the elements of the administrative offence within one working day from the moment the authorised body (official) detects the administrative offence, he or she shall be released from the liability to comply with the administrative penalty imposed, where he or she submits relevant evidence thereon (photo, video-tape, joint visit to the relevant place) to the authorised body (official) within the same period. A relevant protocol shall be drawn up thereon, a carbon copy whereof shall be provided to the person having committed the administrative offence.
(Article 43.1 supplemented by HO-227-N of 27 November 2006, edited by HO-331-N of 22 May 2018, supplemented by HO-166-N of 10 September 2019, supplemented, amended by HO-403-N of 26 October 2022, supplemented by HO-138-N of 13 April 2023)
Article 43.2. Violation of the procedure for conducting landfill monitoring
1. Violation by the landfill operators of the procedure for conducting landfill monitoring —
shall entail imposition of a fine on individual entrepreneurs in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on legal persons — in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Repeated commission of the same violation within one year after applying measures of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine on individual entrepreneurs in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on legal person — in the amount of two-hundred fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 43.2 supplemented by HO-403-N of 26 October 2022)
Article 44. Illegally obtaining or possessing small amounts of narcotic drugs or using narcotic drugs without prescription of a physician
(Article repealed by HO-68-N of 24 December 2004)
Article 44.1. Illegal trafficking of narcotic drugs, psychotropic (psychoactive) substances, preparations thereof or substances equivalent thereto (analogues) with no purpose of sales
(title supplemented by HO-242-N of 6 December 2017, edited by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022)
1. Illegal production, preparation, reprocessing, acquisition, possession, transportation or delivery of small amounts of narcotic drugs, psychotropic (psychoactive) substances or preparations or substances equivalent thereto (analogues) without purpose of sales
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-hundred-fold to four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Repeated commission of the same acts within one year —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of four-hundred-fold to eight-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
3. In this Code, small amounts of narcotic drugs and psychotropic (psychoactive) substances shall be considered to be the amounts ranging from the minimum amounts to five-fold of the narcotic drugs and psychotropic (psychoactive) substances sufficient for having a psychotropic effect on the body of a non-habitual user, i.e. a person who does not use narcotic drugs, psychotropic (psychoactive), as well as drastic substances, who has attained the age of 18 and is practically healthy.
3.1. Small amounts of narcotic drugs and psychotropic (psychoactive) substances shall be established by the Government of the Republic of Armenia, based on the criterion stipulated in part 3 of this Article.
4. A person who has voluntarily surrendered the small amounts of narcotic drug, psychotropic (psychoactive) substance, their preparation or the substance equivalent thereto (analogue) in his or her possession shall be released from administrative liability for the offence provided for by this Article.
(Article 44.1 supplemented by HO-77-N of 26 May 2008, supplemented, edited by HO-242-N of 6 December 2017, edited by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022)
Article 44.2. Use of narcotic drugs or psychotropic (psychoactive) substances without prescription of a physician
(title supplemented by HO-242-N of 6 December 2017)
1. Use of narcotic drugs or psychotropic (psychoactive) substances without prescription of a physician —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
2. Repeated commission of the same act within one year —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-hundred-fold to four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
3. A person who has voluntarily applied to the relevant medical organisation for medical assistance in relation to use of narcotic drugs or psychotropic (psychoactive) substances without prescription of a physician shall be released from administrative liability for the offence provided for by this Article.
(Article 44.2 supplemented by HO-77-N of 26 May 2008, HO-242-N of 6 December 2017)
Article 44.3. Violation of established norms of legal circulation of industrial hemp
1. Violation of licensing requirements by a person holding a license to engage in the production, export, import of or wholesale trade in industrial hemp —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-thousand-fold to ten-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Alienation of the product by a person holding a license for production of industrial hemp to a person holding no license for export, import of or wholesale trade in industrial hemp —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Violation of quota restrictions by a person engaged in the production, export, import of or wholesale trade in industrial hemp —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Violation of the requirements of the executive order issued by the Inspection Body exercising supervision over the legal circulation of industrial hemp —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined.
5. Hindering the works of the Inspection Body exercising supervision over the legal circulation of industrial hemp, or failure to comply with the legal requirements —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 44.3 supplemented by HO-289-N of 1 July 2021, amended by HO-238-N of 26 June 2023)
Article 45. Avoiding medical examination and preventive treatment by those suffering from venereal disease
Avoiding medical examination by persons, whereon there are sufficient data that they suffer from venereal disease, or avoiding treatment by persons who have been in contact with persons suffering from venereal disease and are in need of preventive treatment and continue to avoid it after a warning made by a healthcare institution —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 45 edited by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, amended by HO-7-N of 8 April 2008)
Article 46. Concealing the source of venereal disease infection and contact with patients posing a risk of infection
Concealing the source of infection by patients suffering from venereal disease, as well as concealing the persons who came into such contact with them that poses a risk of infection with venereal disease —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 46 edited by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, amended by HO-7-N of 8 April 2008)
Article 47. Illegal engagement in medical practice
Engaging in medical practice as a profession by a person who has neither proper medical education nor is authorised to practice medicine in the prescribed manner —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 47 edited by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-7-N of 8 April 2008)
Article 47.1. Violation of the rules for providing medical assistance and service
Violation of the procedure for conducting medical expert examination —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold to fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Conducting pathoanatomical autopsies and/or morphological examinations in violation of the conditions or procedures provided for by parts 2 or 3 of Article 41 of Law "On medical assistance and service to the population" by the person conducting autopsy and/or morphological examinations, —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the person having conducted the autopsy and/or morphological examination in the amount of five-hundred-fold to one-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Charging fees for medical service — by providers of medical assistance and service — from a person having the right thereto or refusing thereby to provide medical assistance and service, where there is a contract on state-guaranteed free medical assistance and service —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
The use of video-recording devices in functional diagnostics cabinets, intervention rooms, wards, bathrooms and toilets of organisations providing medical assistance and service —
shall entail imposition of a fine on persons providing medical assistance and service in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, for each video-recording device installed.
Violation of the procedure for use and storage of data obtained through video-recording devices —
shall entail imposition of a fine on persons providing medical assistance and service in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 47.1 supplemented by HO-7-N of 8 April 2008, edited by HO-259-N of 3 October 2011, amended by HO-332-N of 25 October 2023, supplemented by HO-339-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 47.2. Violation of the procedure or conditions for performing voluntary medical sterilisation
Violation of the procedure or conditions for performing voluntary medical sterilisation established by the Government of the Republic of Armenia —
shall entail warning or imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Repeated commission of the act provided for by this Article within one year after imposing a measure of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-hundred-fold to four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 47.2 supplemented by HO-7-N of 8 April 2008)
Article 47.3. Violation of the requirements of the sector of circulation of medicines
(title edited by HO-89-N of 17 May 2016)
1. Producing or distributing or selling or using medicines that are not registered in the Republic of Armenia (except for cases prescribed by the legislation of the Republic of Armenia), or registration of which has been revoked or suspended as prescribed by law, or importing or producing or storing or distributing or selling medicine in violation of law, as well as selling or distribution of medicines that fail to meet the quality requirements or are expired —
shall entail imposition of a fine for each name of medicine
(1) in case of quantities of up to 5 packages (including damaged)— in the amount of one-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined;
(2) in case of quantities of more than 5 packages (including damaged) — in the amount of two-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Producing or importing or selling or storing or distributing medicinal substances, herbal raw materials, investigational pharmaceutical products in violation of the law —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, for each name of a product.
3. Failure to ensure the minimum stock in accordance with the list of essential medicines subject to sale or release from pharmacies —
shall entail warning.
4. Providing non-pharmacological consultation in pharmacies —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the person performing the works in the amount of fifty-fold, and on the employer — in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
5. Keeping expired medicines or medicines circulation thereof is terminated in trade halls or waiting rooms of pharmacies —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, for each name of medicine.
6. Except for cases provided for by law, preparing sterile dosage forms in pharmacies —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-hundred-and-fifty-fold to three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
7. Selling prescription medicines without a prescription or with prescriptions written on forms not complying with the requirements defined by the legislation of the Republic of Armenia —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined, for each name of medicine.
8. Writing prescriptions on forms not complying with the requirements defined by the legislation of the Republic of Armenia —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, for each name of medicine.
9. Violation of the requirements for formulations approved as provided for by law, or violation of the requirements for the quality or design or packaging or labelling or storage or sales of prepared medicines, or release of medicines prepared in a pharmacy without indication of the expiration date —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
10. Failure to inform of the cases recorded with respect to adverse side effects of the medicines registered by the holder of the registration certificate of the medicine, or disclosure of information thereon without prior or simultaneous notice to the authorised state administration body in the field of healthcare —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
11. Introducing the name or trademark of the supplier of the medicine in the Republic of Armenia in the marking, general description and leaflet of the medicine —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-hundred-and-fifty-fold to three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
12. Introducing medical indications on the package and/or in the instruction for use of any products not considered to be medicine (including cosmetic products, bioactive supplements) —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of eighty-fold to one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, for each name of a product.
13. Violation of the requirements for packaging, or labelling, or marking of medicines, medicinal substances, herbal raw materials and investigational pharmaceutical products —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, for each name of a medicine or product.
14. Sale of medicines in violation of the procedure provided for by Law, without a leaflet in Armenian —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, for each name of a medicine.
15. Failure by the holder of the registration certificate of the medicine to inform the authorised state administration body in the field of healthcare in writing of each new datum and/or modification identified and/or made during the post registration period in relation to safety, effectiveness, quality of the registered product —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of four-hundred-fold to five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
16. Use of expired medicines by providers of medical assistance and service —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of four-hundred-fold to five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
17. Failure to terminate the circulation of or withdraw from circulation (failure to recall) medicines, medicinal substances, herbal raw materials, investigational pharmaceutical products in cases provided for by law or in the manner prescribed by law —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-hundred-fold to six-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, for each name of a medicine or product.
18. Failure to provide exhaustive information on all the interchangeable medicines that have the same ingredients, the same dosage and the same pharmaceutical form of the prescription medicine available in the pharmacy —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold to seventy-fold of the minimum salary defined.
19. Failure to comply with the decisions regulating the prices of medicines —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of nine-hundred-fold to one-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined.
20. Failure by legal persons and individual entrepreneurs holding a license for production or wholesale of medicines or pharmacy license to submit a report provided for by law —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-hundred-and-fifty-fold to three-hundred-fold of the salary.
20.1. Sales of medicines by the medicine importer without conducting lot release or fulfiling the obligations assumed under the letter of commitments in compliance with the law during the import certification —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, for each name of medicine.
21. Violation of the technical or professional requirements for delivery of medicines —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
22. Repeated commission of the acts provided for by parts 2, 4-21 of this Article within one year after applying measures of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the amounts of the fine provided for by this Article for the given act.
23. Repeated commission of the act provided for by part 3 of this Article within one year after applying a measure of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary, for each name of a medicine included in the relevant minimum stock in accordance with the list of essential medicines subject to sales or release from pharmacies.
(Article 47.3 supplemented by HO-7-N of 8 April 2008, edited by HO-89-N of 17 May 2016, edited, supplemented, amended by HO-35-N of 10 February 2023, amended by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023, edited, supplemented, amended by HO-154-N of 11 April 2024)
Article 47.4. Violation of the requirements for advertising of medical products, or medical treatment methods
(title amended by HO-89-N of 17 May 2016, edited by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023, supplemented by HO-319-N of 12 July 2024, edited by HO-154-N of 11 April 2024)
1. Advertising of medical products or medical treatment methods by the advertiser without the authorisation of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Armenia, as well as in violation of the conditions of the authorisation —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Disseminating advertisements of medical products that are not registered or require special prescription or surveillance by the physician, or of unlicensed entities by the advertiser or advertising producer —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Repeated commission of the acts provided for by this Article within one year after applying measures of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the amounts of the fine provided for by this Article for the given act.
(Article 47.4 supplemented by HO-7-N of 8 April 2008, amended by HO-89-N of 17 May 2016, edited, amended, supplemented by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023, supplemented by HO-319-N of 12 July 2024, edited by HO-154-N of 11 April 2024)
Article 47.5. Employing or permitting for work persons who have not undergone compulsory medical examination or have medical contraindications
Employing persons who have not undergone compulsory preliminary medical examination or have medical contraindications, as well as permitting for work persons who have not undergone compulsory periodic medical examination or have medical contraindications —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of forty-fold to fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Repeated commission of the same act within one year after applying a measure of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of eighty-fold to one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 47.5 supplemented by HO-7-N of 8 April 2008)
Article 47.6. Failure by licensed entities having obtained a licence through a simple procedure to submit a written communication to the State Hygiene and Anti-Epidemic Inspectorate before engaging in activities subject to licensing
(Article repealed by HO-173-N of 21 March 2018)
Article 47.7. Violation of the requirements for advertising of special purpose food, alcoholic beverages
(title amended by HO-96-N of 13 February 2020)
Advertising by the advertiser or advertising producer of special purpose food in violation of the requirements of Article 21 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia "On food safety" —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the advertiser or advertising producer in the amount of two-hundred-fold to three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, for each type of food.
Advertising of alcoholic beverages in violation of the requirements of part 2 of Article 14, parts 1, 3, 4, 5, 5.1 of Article 15 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia "On advertising" —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the advertiser in the amount of three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Repeated commission of the acts provided for by this Article within one year after applying measures of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the fine provided for by this Article for the given act.
(Article 47.7 supplemented by HO-182-N of 11 September 2012, amended by HO-96-N of 13 February 2020, edited by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 47.8. Violation of the rules of circulation of baby food and related products
1. Sale of baby food and related products by healthcare organisations —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Failure by healthcare organisations to notify the authorised body in case of any offers (sample, present or other gift) by baby food producers and/or distributors —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Advertising and/or other forms of promotion of infant formulae intended for infants or children of early age, and any food not considered to be infant formulae and/or related products intended for infants up to 6-months—
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Engaging in sales, sale, advertising and/or other forms of promotion of baby food and related products by a medical worker involved in the field of maternal and child health care—
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
5. Accepting by a medical worker involved in the field of maternal and child health care any presents, gifts or rewards in monetary or any other forms, accepting or providing thereby samples of baby food and related products from the producer and/or distributor or other organisation acting on their behalf—
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
6. Failure by a medical worker to notify the management of a healthcare organisation in case of any offers (sample, present or other gift) by baby food producers and/or distributors —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
7. Preparation and dissemination of written, audio or video informative and instructive materials on nutrition of infants and children of early age, baby food or related products in violation of the requirements of law —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
8. Failure to comply with the requirements of part 3 of Article 12 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia "On promotion of breast-feeding of children and circulation of baby food" —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
9. Repeated commission of the acts prescribed by parts 1-8 of this Article within one year after applying measures of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the fine prescribed by parts 1-8 of this Article.
(Article 47.8 supplemented by HO-182-N of 20 November 2014)
Article 47.9. Authorising a person having no certificate of continuing professional development or a person having no first-time professional activity certificate to carry out professional activities
(title edited by HO-167-N of 11 April 2024)
1. Authorising a person having no certificate of continuing professional development or a person having first-time professional activity certificate to carry out professional activities —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. The same violation that has been recommitted within one year after applying measures of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of six-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 47.9 supplemented by HO-115-N of 6 October 2015, edited by HO-167-N of 11 April 2024)
Article 47.10. Violation of the requirements for advertising of medicines or information on medicines
1. Advertising a medicine by the advertiser, without the authorisation of the authorised state administration body in the field of healthcare or in violation of the conditions of that authorisation, or outdoor advertising of a medicine —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, for each name of a medicine.
2. Advertising by the advertiser or advertising producer of a medicine which is not registered in the Republic of Armenia, or registration of which has been suspended as in accordance with the procedure prescribed by law, or which contains narcotic drugs or psychotropic (psychoactive) substances or is controlled in the Republic of Armenia or which is prepared by prescription or formulations in the pharmacy, or advertising of a medicine which requires special prescription by a physician —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, for each name of a medicine.
3. Advertising by the advertiser of any product not considered to be a medicine (bioactive supplements, cosmetics, etc.) as a remedy, or direct provision by the advertiser of a medicine to the consumer for advertising purposes or provision of free samples of medicines for advertising purposes to persons practising medicine (physician, mid-level and junior medical staff) —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Dissemination — through mass media — of information on medicines sold or released on prescription —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the natural person disseminating the information in the amount of two-hundred-and-fifty-fold to three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 47.10 supplemented by HO-89-N of 17 May 2016)
Article 47.11. Violation of the requirements for clinical trials of medicines
1. Violation of the requirements for clinical trials of medicines, where it has not caused harm to the health of the trial subject, or failure to submit reports on the results of clinical trials —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-hundred-fold to two-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 47.11 supplemented by HO-89-N of 17 May 2016)
Article 47.12. Failure to implement necessary measures provided for by law before and after performing an induced termination of pregnancy (abortion) by a physician
1. (part repealed by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022)
2. Failure by a physician to provide a woman — immediately after an induced termination of pregnancy (abortion) — with free medical and social counselling regarding the choice of means and/or methods to prevent unwanted pregnancy, or failure thereby to make notes in medical documents on providing counselling —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of forty-fold to fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Failure by a physician to provide a time period under the law for the pregnant woman to make a final decision on induced termination of pregnancy immediately before the medical intervention in the form of induced termination of pregnancy (abortion) —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of eighty-fold to one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Repeated commission of the act provided for by this Article within one year after applying measures of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition in the amount of two-fold of the fine provided for by this Article for the given act.
(Article 47.12 supplemented by HO-135-N of 29 June 2016, amended by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022)
Article 47.13. Failure to obtain mandatory documents provided for by law when performing induced termination of pregnancy (abortion) in cases permitted by law
(Article repealed by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022)
Article 47.14. Disclosure of the location of a person subjected to domestic violence and placed in a shelter
1. Reporting the location of a person placed in a shelter provided for by the Law of the Republic of Armenia "On prevention of domestic violence, protection of victims of domestic violence and restoration of family solidarity" to a person who is not entitled to be informed thereof by the person who has become aware thereof in the performance of his or her official or work duties —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-hundred-fold to four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 47.14 supplemented by HO-324-N of 13 December 2017)
Article 47.15. Violation of the requirements for prohibition of and restrictions on advertising, promotion of sale (sales) and sponsorship of tobacco products, accessories thereof, substitutes for tobacco products (except for substitutes used for medical purposes), imitations of tobacco products
1. Advertising of tobacco products or accessories thereof, or substitutes for tobacco products (except for substitutes used for medical purposes), imitations of tobacco products by the advertiser and advertising medium —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of seven-hundred-and-fifty-fold to eight-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Demonstrating the use of tobacco products or accessories thereof, or substitutes for tobacco products (except for substitutes used for medical purposes) through speech or voice or other image in an advertisement of other goods or works or services—
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of seven-hundred-and-fifty-fold to eight-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Naming or including tobacco products or accessories thereof, or substitutes for tobacco products (except for substitutes for tobacco products), or imitations of tobacco products in an advertisement of other goods or works or services —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of seven-hundred-and-fifty-fold to eight-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Free-of-charge sale of samples of tobacco products or their accessories, or substitutes for tobacco products (except for substitutes used for medical purposes), or imitations of tobacco products by producers of tobacco products or tobacco products substitutes, their representatives or the sellers —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the person selling it in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
5. Sponsorship of tobacco products or substitutes for tobacco products —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-hundred-fold to two-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Repeated commission of the same act within six months after applying measures of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the administrative penalty applied.
6. Production or import or sale of toys or food products considered to be imitation of tobacco products —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-hundred-fold to two-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Recommision of the same act within six months after applying measures of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the administrative penalty applied.
7. Placing or displaying tobacco products or accessories thereof, or substitutes for tobacco products (including their empty boxes, blocks, enlarged boxes, colour posters imitating the trademark) or trademarks or symbols thereof in areas (including salerooms) designed for sale (sales) thereof, in a place visible for the consumer —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Repeated commission of the same act within six months after applying measures of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the administrative penalty applied.
8. Depicting tobacco products or accessories thereof, or substitutes for tobacco products or imitations of tobacco products or use thereof in audiovisual works (television films, video films, theatrical performances broadcast through television, radio or the Internet) produced in the Republic of Armenia and envisaged for children —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Recommision of the same act within six months after applying measures of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the administrative penalty applied.
9. Failure by the broadcaster to provide information on the harmfulness of use of tobacco products or substitutes for tobacco products in the manner and by the means prescribed by law while broadcasting audiovisual works (television films, video films broadcast through television, radio or the Internet) containing video image and audio image of tobacco products or accessories thereof, or substitutes for tobacco products or imitations of tobacco products —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Repeated commission of the same act within six months after applying measures of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the administrative penalty applied.
10. Repeated commission of the act provided for by parts 1-4 of this Article within one year after applying measures of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the fine provided for by this Article for the given act.
(Article 47.15 supplemented by HO-96-N of 13 February 2020)
Article 47.16. Violation of general requirements for import or sale or production of tobacco products or substitutes for tobacco products set forth by the legislation of the Republic of Armenia
1. Production or import or sale of tobacco products or substitutes for tobacco products non-compliant with the technical regulations on safety established by the Government of the Republic of Armenia, for the purpose of sale in the territory of the Republic of Armenia —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of six-hundred-fold to nine-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Repeated commission of the same act after applying measures of administrative penalty, until the next inspection —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the administrative penalty applied.
2. Production or import or sale of tobacco products exceeding the permissible content of nicotine and resin in the smoke of tobacco products established by the Government of the Republic of Armenia —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of seven-hundred-and-fifty-fold to eight-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Repeated commission of the same act within six months after applying measures of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the administrative penalty applied.
3. Wholesale and retail sale of chewing tobacco in the Republic of Armenia —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of eight-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Repeated commission of the same act within 6 months after applying measures of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the administrative penalty applied.
(Article 47.16 supplemented by HO-96-N of 13 February 2020)
Article 47.17. Violation of the requirements for packaging and marking of tobacco products or substitutes for tobacco products with respect to providing information on adverse health effects
1. Violation of the requirements for packaging and marking of tobacco products or substitutes for tobacco products prescribed by Law "On reducing and preventing the damage caused to the health as a result of use of tobacco products and substitutes thereof", technical regulations on safety approved by the Government of the Republic of Armenia —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of four-hundred-and-fifty-fold to five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Repeated commission of the same act within six months after applying measures of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the administrative penalty applied.
(Article 47.17 supplemented by HO-96-N of 13 February 2020)
Article 47.18. Failure to join the electronic health system, to maintain medical (including electronic) documents subject to mandatory maintenance or violation of the requirements for their completion or circulation
1. Failure to join the electronic health system —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of thirty-fold to fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Failure to maintain medical (including electronic) documents subject to mandatory maintenance —
shall entail a fine in the amount of fifty-fold to sixty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Violation of the requirements for completion or circulation of medical (including electronic) documents subject to mandatory maintenance —
shall entail warning against the person having committed the violation.
3. Repeated commission of the act provided for by part 2 of this Article within one year after applying a measure of administrative penalty —
shall entail a fine in the amount of seventy-fold to one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
5. Repeated commission of the act provided for by part 3 of this Article within one year after applying a measure of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold to thirty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 47.18 supplemented by HO-269-N of 6 May 2020, amended, supplemented by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 47.19. Violation of the procedure for completing and issuing sick leave certificate by the provider of medical assistance and service
1. Violation of the procedure for completing and issuing a sick leave certificate by the provider of medical assistance and service —
shall entail a fine in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
2. Repeated commission of the act provided for by part 1 of this Article within one year after applying a measure of administrative penalty —
shall entail a fine in the amount of two-hundred-and-fifty-fold to three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
(Article 47.19 supplemented by HO-269-N of 6 May 2020)
Article 47.20. Failure to provide an information sheet to the patient or legal representative thereof
1. Failure to provide an information sheet to the patient or legal representative thereof in compliance with the requirements prescribed by law —
shall entail a fine in the amount of ten-fold to twenty-fold of the minimum salary.
2. Repeated commission of the act provided for by part 1 of this Article within one year after applying a measure of administrative penalty —
shall entail a fine in the amount of fifty-fold to seventy-fold of the minimum salary.
(Article 47.20 supplemented by HO-269-N of 6 May 2020)
Article 47.21. Failure to meet or violation by providers of state-guaranteed free and privileged medical care and service of the requirements for providing medical care and service to victims of emergency situations or military operations or acts of terrorism carried out by a foreign state against the Republic of Armenia
1. Failure to meet or violation by providers of state-guaranteed free and privileged medical care and service of the requirements for providing — in the case provided for by law — medical care and service to the victims of emergency situations or victims of military operations or acts of terrorism carried out by a foreign state against the Republic of Armenia —
shall entail a fine in the amount of one-thousand-fold to one-thousand-and-five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
2. Repeated commission of the act provided for by part 1 of this Article within one year after applying a measure of administrative penalty —
shall entail a fine in the amount of one-thousand-and-six-hundred-fold to one-thousand-and-eight-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
(Article 47.21 supplemented by HO-269-N of 6 May 2020)
Article 47.22. Failure by the provider of medical care and service to have an official Internet website provided for by law or to have an official Internet website in compliance with the law
1. Failure by the provider of in-patient medical care and service to have an official Internet website provided for by law —
shall entail a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary.
2. Failure by the provider of out-patient medical care and service to have an official Internet website provided for by law —
shall entail a fine in the amount of eighty-fold to one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
3. Lack of data on services or price list or medical staff or lack of possibility of feedback to providers of professional services on the official Internet website of the provider of medical care and service —
shall entail a fine in the amount of fifty-fold to sixty-fold of the minimum salary.
4. Repeated commission of the acts provided for by parts 1 or 2 or 3 of this Article within one year after applying measures of administrative penalty —
shall entail a fine in the amount of two-hundred-fold to three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
(Article 47.22 supplemented by HO-269-N of 6 May 2020)
Article 47.23. Failure to submit to the police a report about a patient (as well as a deceased person) transferred to a medical institution, or violation of the procedure for submission thereof
1. Failure by the provider of medical care and service to submit — under the procedure established by the Government of the Republic of Armenia — a relevant report on a patient (as well as a deceased person) transferred to the medical institution —
shall entail a fine in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
2. Repeated commission of the act provided for by part 1 of this Article within one year after applying a measure of administrative penalty —
shall entail a fine in the amount of two-hundred-and-fifty-fold to three-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary.
(Article 47.23 supplemented by HO-269-N of 6 May 2020)
Article 47.24. Carrying out professional activity by a medical worker in cases prohibited on the ground of violation of the rules of professional ethics
1. Carrying out professional activity by a medical worker in cases prohibited on the ground of violation of the rules of professional ethics of a medical worker —
shall entail a fine for the medical worker in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
2. Repeated commission of the acts provided for by part 1 of this Article within one year after applying a measure of administrative penalty —
shall entail a fine in the amount of three-hundred-and-fifty-fold to four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
(Article 47.24 supplemented by HO-269-N of 6 May 2020, amended by HO-167-N of 11 April 2024)
Article 47.25. Violation the requirements established in the field of medical products circulation
1. Violation of the requirements established in the field of medical products circulation—
shall entail a fine in the amount of one- hundred-fold to one-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 47.25 supplemented by HO-269-N of 6 May 2020)
Article 47.26. Providing medical care and service by a foreign medical worker without a permit for short-term professional activity of foreign medical workers
1. Providing medical care and service by a foreign medical worker without a permit for short-term professional activity of foreign medical workers shall entail a fine for the provider of medical care and service in the amount of four-hundred-and-fifty-fold to five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Repeated commission of the act provided for by part 1 of this Article within one year after applying a measure of administrative penalty —
shall entail a fine in the amount of seven-hundred-fold to eight-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 47.26 supplemented by HO-269-N of 6 May 2020)
Article 47.27. Violation of the requirements for medicated feed and feed additives
1. Use of medicinal products in feed additives, as well as production, circulation, use of medicated feed —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Repeated commission of the act provided for by this Article within one year after applying measures of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the penalty provided for by this Article for the given act.
(Article 47.27 supplemented by HO-285-N of 1 June 2020)
Article 47.27. Violation of the procedure for involuntary hospitalisation
1. Failure to invite a psychiatric commission by the executive body of a psychiatric organisation within 72 hours after compulsory hospitalisation of a person with mental health issues —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Failure by the executive body of the psychiatric organisation to apply to the court within 72 hours for subjecting a person to compulsory psychiatric hospital treatment as prescribed by the Civil Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia in case the justification for compulsory hospitalisation is confirmed by the conclusion of professional psychiatric commission —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of sixty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Failure by a clinical-psychiatrist performing compulsory hospital treatment to submit a professional written opinion on the condition of a person with mental health issues to the psychiatric commission of a psychiatric organisation at least once a month —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of eighty-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Failure by the executive body of the psychiatric organisation to apply to the court with a request to cancel the court judgment on being subjected to compulsory hospitalisation in case the legal grounds for compulsory treatment of a person with mental health issues cease to exist before the expiry of the six-month period prescribed by law —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of eighty-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
5. Repeated commission of the act provided for by this Article within one year after applying measures of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the fine provided for by this Article for the given act.
(Article 47.27 supplemented by HO-351-N of 18 June 2020)
Article 47.28. Violation of the procedure for person’s functionality assessment
1. Violation of the procedure for person’s functionality assessment—
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold to thirty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 47.28 supplemented by HO-196-N of 5 May 2021)
Article 47.29. Violation of the rights of persons with mental health issues
1. Failure to inform — as prescribed by law, within one calendar day after admission by a clinical-psychiatrist — the person admitted to a psychiatric organisation, and in the presence of a legal representative, also the legal representative of the rights, freedoms of the person admitted to the psychiatric organisation, restrictions thereof, as well as the nature of mental disorder, purpose, methodology, duration of recommended treatment, as well as side effects and expected outcome thereof, and consequences of refusing psychiatric care and service —
shall entail warning or imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold to eighty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Failure by the executive body of the psychiatric organisation to designate a person responsible for informing the person with mental health in the psychiatric organisation —
shall entail warning or imposition of a fine on the director of the psychiatric organisation in the amount of thirty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Violation of the requirements for hospitalisation, treatment or discharge of persons with mental disorders —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Repeated commission of any of the acts provided for by this Article within one year after applying measures of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the fine imposed for the previous case.
(Article 47.29 supplemented by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 47.30. Violation of the requirements for donation of human blood and its components and transfusion medical care
1. Violation of the requirements for providing information to the donor or obtaining consent —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Violation of the requirements of the procedure for drawing blood or its component —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Violation of the requirements of the procedure and methods for conducting the compulsory tests of blood and its components —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Violation of the requirements of preparing blood components —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
5. Violation of the requirements for storage, transportation, export or import of blood or its components —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
6. Violation of the requirements for production or circulation of donor blood preparations —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
7. Violation of the requirements for maintaining the privileges granted to the donor —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
8. Violation of the requirements for transfusion of blood components —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
9. Violation of the requirements for ensuring blood supplies or providing blood components —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
10. Repeated commission of any of the acts provided for by this Article within one year after applying measures of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the fine imposed for the previous case.
(Article 47.30 supplemented by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 47.31. Violation of human reproductive health and reproductive rights
1. Violation of the requirements for preservation of germ cells and embryo —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Violation of the requirements for use of assisted reproduction technologies —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Violation of the requirements for donation prescribed by parts 1 or 2 of Article 14 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia "On human reproductive health and reproductive rights” —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Violation of the procedure for provision and/or preservation of donor sperm or ovum —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
5. Repeated commission of any of the acts provided for by this Article within one year after applying measures of administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the fine imposed for the previous case.
(Article 47.31 supplemented by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 47.32. Violation of the requirements for transplantation of organs or tissues to humans
1. Violation of the requirements for taking, processing or transplantation of transplantable organs or tissues—
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of four-hundred-fold to one-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Violation of the requirements for operation of the register of organ or tissue donors or recipients, recording and use of the information —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-hundred-fold to six-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Violation of the requirements for authorisation for retrieving organs or tissues from the corpse —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of four-hundred-fold to one-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 47.32 supplemented by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 47.33. Carrying out professional activities without an individual licence or transitional individual licence
1.
2.
(As supplemented by Law HO-167-N of 11 April 2024 part 2 of this Article shall enter into force from 1 January 2026, and part 1 — from 1 January 2027)
Article 47.34. Authorising a person without an individual licence or transitional individual licence to carry out professional activities
1.
2.
3.
4.
(As supplemented by Law HO-167-N of 11 April 2024 parts 2 and 4 of this Article shall enter into force from 1 January 2026, and parts 1 and 3 — from 1 January 2027)
Article 47.35. Violation of the procedure and conditions for export, import and transportation of embryos formed from fusion of germ cells of biological parents or germ cells of the biological parent and the donor
(As supplemented by Law HO-319-N of 12 July 2024 the Article shall enter into force within a period of six months after official promulgation of the same Law)
CHAPTER 6.
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFENCES AGAINST PROPERTY
Article 48. Unauthorised seizure of state-owned and/or community-owned land parcels, and failure to eliminate the consequences thereof
Unauthorised seizure of state-owned and/or community-owned land parcels, and failure to eliminate the consequences thereof —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Unauthorised seizure of state-owned and/or community-owned land parcels in rural communities, and failure to eliminate the consequences thereof —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Proceeding with commission of the acts provided for by the first and second parts of this Article after imposing a fine as provided for by the first and second parts of this Article —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-thousand-and-five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 48 amended by HO-79 of 4 June 1991, 2 September 1993, HO-102 of 3 December 1996, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, edited by HO-192-N 4 October 2005)
Article 48.1. Unauthorised seizure of state-owned and/or community-owned land parcels outside the administrative boundaries of the community and failure to eliminate the consequences thereof
(Article repealed by HO-334-N of 11 September 2024)
Article 49. Violation of the right of state ownership of subsoil
Unauthorised use of the subsoil, conducting transactions directly or covertly violating the state ownership of the subsoil —
shall entail imposition of a fine on citizens in the amount of fifty-fold to eighty-fold, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 49 amended by HO-79 of 4 June 1991, 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 50. Violation of the right of ownership of waters
Violation of the right of ownership of waters, unauthorised or non-targeted use of water, as well as violation of the established procedure for acquiring or transferring the right of water use—
shall entail imposition of a fine on citizens in the amount of fifty-fold, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Repeated commission of the same violation within one year from the day of imposition of the fine provided for by part 1 of this Article —
shall entail imposition of a fine on citizens in the amount of eighty-fold, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 50 amended by HO-79 of 4 June 1991, 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 50.1. Violation of the right of ownership of water systems and parts thereof, acquiring and/or transferring the right to use the water systems in violation of the requirements of law
Violation of the right unauthorised seizure) of ownership of water systems or part thereof (except for water supply and drainage systems), violation of the procedure for use thereof, acquiring and/or transferring the right to use water systems (except for water supply and drainage systems) in violation of the requirements of law, shall
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of fifty-fold, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Repeated commission of the same violation within one year from the date of imposition of the fine provided for by part 1 of this Article shall
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of eighty-fold, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Violation of the right of ownership of water supply and drainage systems or parts thereof, acquiring and/or transferring the right to use water supply and drainage systems in violation of the requirements of law, shall
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of seventy-fold, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-and-thirty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Repeated commission of the same violation within one year from the date of imposition of the fine provided for by part 3 of this Article shall
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of eighty-fold, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 50.1 supplemented by HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 51. Violation of the right of state ownership of forests
Unauthorised reassignment of forest use rights, as well as conducting other transactions directly or covertly violating the state ownership of forests, shall
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of fifty-fold to eighty-fold, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 51 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 52. Violation of the right of state ownership of fauna
Unauthorised re-assignment of the right to make use of fauna facilities, and making other transactions directly or covertly violating the right to state ownership of fauna, as well as unauthorised use of the fauna facilities, to make use whereof permission shall be required, shall
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of fifty-fold to eighty-fold, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 52 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 52.1. Illegal use of another person's property
1. Using the property of an owner or other legal possessor contrary to his or her will or ignoring his or her will without the intention of making that property his or her own, which has caused small-scale property damage, shall
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of thirty-fold to fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Within the meaning of this Article, small-scale shall be considered to be the amount (value) not exceeding AMD 500 000.
(Article 52.1 supplemented by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022)
Article 53. Destroying or damaging property
(title edited by HO-220-N of 23 June 2011, HO-155-N of 9 June 2022)
1. Intentionally destroying or damaging another person’s property, which has caused small-scale property damage shall
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of thirty-fold to fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Intentionally destroying or damaging another person’s property, which has caused large-scale damage shall
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold to one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. A small-scale as provided for by this Article shall be considered to be the amount (value) not exceeding AMD 30.000 at the time of intentionally destroying or damaging another person's property, and a large-scale shall be considered to be the amount (value) not exceeding AMD 30.000 to AMD 500.000.
(Article 53 edited by HO-156 of 7 March 2001, HO-220-N of 23 June 2011, supplemented by HO-219-N of 14 November 2019, edited by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022)
Article 53.1. Avoiding compensation for property damage caused by crime to enterprises, institutions, organisations
(Article repealed by HO-32-N of 16 December 2005)
Article 53.2. Failure to perform or improper performance of obligations of preservation or protection of property
1. Failure by the person with an obligation to preserve or protect the property to perform that obligation or improper performance thereof as a result of negligent or unfaithful attitude towards them, where illegal taking, damage or loss of small scale of that property has taken place as a result of carelessness of that person, shall
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of thirty-fold to fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Within the meaning of this Article, small-scale shall be considered to be the amount (value) not exceeding AMD 500 000.
(Article 53.2 supplemented by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022)
Article 53.3. Causing property damage by deception, abuse of confidence or by other unlawful means
1. Causing small-scale property damage to another person by deception, abuse of confidence or by dissemination of false information or by other unlawful means, which was manifested in the form of lost benefit, depreciation of property or forced expenses shall
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of thirty-fold to fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Within the meaning of this Article, small-scale shall be considered to be the amount (value) not exceeding AMD 500 000.
(Article 53.3 supplemented by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022)
Article 53.4. Causing property damage by threat or use of violence
1. Forcing a person to enter into or refuse to enter into a transaction, undertake an obligation or perform another act that has caused small-scale property damage, and which has been committed
(1) by threatening to use violence against a person or his or her close relative or kinsman or the one entrusted for the upbringing, care or control by him or her;
(2) by threatening to destruct, damage, take or not to return the property of a person or his or her close relative or kinsman or the property under the legal disposal, possession, use or custody thereof;
(3) by blackmail or
(4) by other means of coercion —
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of thirty-fold to fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Within the meaning of this Article, small-scale shall be considered to be the amount (value) not exceeding AMD 500 000.
(Article 53.4 supplemented by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022)
Article 53.5. Causing damage to pledgee
1. Concealing, alienating, destroying, damaging the pledged property or making it useless in any other way, by which exercise of the property right of a pledgee has been obstructed and a small-scale property damage has been caused to him or her shall
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold to forty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Within the meaning of this Article, small-scale shall be considered to be the amount (value) not exceeding AMD 500 000.
(Article 53.5 supplemented by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022)
Article 53.6. Illegal connection to the natural gas, oil, water tubes or electric network or means of telecommunication or electronic communication or illegally changing the indications on the devices envisaged for measuring them, or disturbing the normal operation thereof
1. Illegal connection to the natural gas, oil, water tubes or electric network or means of telecommunication or electronic communication belonging to another person or illegally changing the indications on the devices envisaged for measuring the natural gas, oil, water tubes or electric network or means of telecommunication or electronic communication belonging to another person, or disturbing the normal operation thereof, which has caused a small-scale property damage
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold to thirty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Within the sense of this Article, small-scale shall be considered to be the amount (value) not exceeding AMD 500 000.
(Article 53.6 supplemented by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022)
CHAPTER 7
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFENCES IN THE FIELDS OF LAND USE, GEODESY AND CARTOGRAPHY, PRESERVATION OF NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, HISTORIC AND CULTURAL MONUMENTS
(title amended by HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, HO-34-N of 19 March 2012)
Article 54. Using land parcels for purposes other than designated, unauthorised change of operational significance of land parcels or in soil types, as well as failure to prevent such violations
Using land parcels for purposes other than designated shall
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Unauthorised change of operational significance of land parcels and in soil types shall
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Using land parcels for purposes other than designated, as well as failure to prevent unauthorised change of operational significance of land parcels and in soil types shall
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 54 amended by HO-79 of 4 June 1991, 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 54.1. Failure to comply with land use restrictions or servitudes prescribed with respect to land parcels by laws, other legal acts, contracts or judicial procedure
Failure to comply with land use restrictions and servitudes prescribed with respect to land parcels by laws, other legal acts, contracts or judicial procedure shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of fifty-fold and on officials — in the amount of seventy-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 54.1 supplemented HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 54.2. Violation of the procedures for use of the fertile layer of land and sale of the fertile layer of land removed as a result of carrying out construction works
(title edited by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022)
Violation of the procedure for use of the fertile layer of land shall
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of thirty-fold and on officials — in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Violation of the procedure for sale of the fertile layer of land removed as a result of carrying out construction works shall
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of thirty-fold and on officials — in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 54.2 supplemented by HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, edited, supplemented by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022)
Article 54.3. Violation of the prescribed procedure for preservation and recovery of fertility and other useful properties of lands of agricultural significance
Violation of the prescribed procedure for preservation and recovery of fertility and other useful properties of agricultural lands shall
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 54.3 supplemented by HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 54.4. Violation of the rules for land preservation
Failure to preserve lands from water and wind erosion, washing out, swamping, secondary salinisation, consolidation,
by industrial and household waste, chemical and radioactive substances, landslides, desertification, as well as from other negative impacts deteriorating soil condition, in accordance with the prescribed rules, shall
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of eighty-fold, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Failure to accumulate, preserve the fertile layer of soil, inefficient and untargeted use and illegal transportation thereof, illegal sale of the fertile layer of the soil removed as a result of carrying out construction works, while implementing activities related to damaged lands, shall
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of fifty-fold, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 54.4 supplemented by HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, HO-155-N of 9 June 2022)
Article 54.5. Failure to inform on change in the designated purpose of land parcel
Failure by the head of the community, to inform the authorities prescribed by law on the changes made to the designated purpose of land parcel within the time limits prescribed by law, shall
entail imposition of a fine on the head of the community in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 54.5 supplemented by HO-230-N of 23 June 2011)
Article 55. Spoiling and polluting agricultural and other lands
(Article 55 edited by HO-79 of 4 June 1991, 2 September 1993, repealed by HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 56. Failure to return, at the proper time, the land parcel provided for temporary use or failure to bring it to a suitable condition for use according to the designated purpose and operational significance, as well as the soil type
Failure to return, at the proper time, the land parcel provided for temporary use or failure to bring it to a suitable condition for use according to the designated purpose and operational significance, as well as the soil type shall
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of fifty-fold and on officials — in the amount of seventy-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 56 amended by HO-79 of 4 June 1991, 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 56.1. Violation of the procedure for alienating or providing for use of land parcels under the ownership of the State or the community
Violation of the procedure for alienating land parcels under the ownership of the State or the community shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Violation of the procedure for providing for use land parcels under the ownership of the State or the community shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 56.1 supplemented by HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 56.2. Alienating or providing for use land parcels under the ownership of the State or the community with designated purpose or operational significance not complying with urban planning, land development, forest engineering or water engineering projects
Alienating land parcels under the ownership of the State or the community with designated purpose or operational significance not complying with urban planning, land development, forest engineering or water engineering projects shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Alienating land plots under the ownership of the State or the community with designated purpose or operational significance not complying with urban planning, land development, forest engineering or water engineering projects shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 56.2 supplemented by HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 56.3. Alienating the land parcels under the ownership of the State or the community — which are not transferred by the right of ownership prescribed by law — to citizens and legal persons
Alienating the land parcels under the ownership of the State or the community — which are not transferred by the right of ownership prescribed by law — to citizens and legal persons, shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 56.3 supplemented by HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 57. Unauthorised deviation from intra-economic land development projects
Deviation, without proper permission, from intra-economic land development projects approved through the prescribed procedure shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of thirty per cent to fifty per cent of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 57 edited on 1 September 1993)
Article 58. Violation of boundaries of land use, destruction of border marks or failure to prevent such actions
Violation of boundaries of land use and destruction of border marks shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of thirty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Violation of boundaries of land use or failure to prevent the destruction of the border marks shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 58 amended by HO-79 of 4 June 1991, 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 59. Violation of subsoil conservation requirements
Unauthorised site development of surfaces of mines of minerals, failure to comply with the rules for conservation of subsoil and with the requirements for the protection of the natural environment, buildings and structures from the harmful impact of works related to subsoil use, destruction or damage of routine groundwater monitoring bareholes, as well as survey pegs and geodetic marks shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of fifty-fold to eighty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of eighty-fold to one-hundred-fold.
Selective development of rich areas of mines resulting in ungrounded losses of balance reserves of mineral resources, excessive losses of minerals and excessive impoverishment caused during extraction, spoiling of mines of mineral resources and other violations of the requirements for rational use of mineral reserves shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of eighty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold.
Loss of mine surveying documents, failure to comply with the requirements to bring abandoned or conserved mineworkings and bareholes into a condition that ensures the safety for the population, as well as failure to comply with the requirements for conservation of mines, mine workings and bareholes during the period of conservation shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of fifty-fold to eighty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold.
Violations of the procedure prescribed for preservation of rare geological outcrops, mineralogical formations, archaeological objects and other areas of subsoil of special scientific, scientific and cultural significance shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of eighty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold.
(Article 59 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, supplemented by HO-283-N of 28 November 2011)
Article 60. Violation of the rules and requirements for conducting activities of geological exploration of subsoil
Conducting geological exploration of subsoil without state registration at the Republican Geological Fund, as well as failure to submit the geological information to the Republican Geological Fund through the procedure prescribed, following the completion of geological exploration of subsoil, shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Excavation of mine workings and drilling of bareholes without a permit during geological exploration of subsoil shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of eighty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold.
(Article 60 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 60.1. Violation of the rules of subsoil use
Deviations from the approved projects of extraction of minerals resulting in significant violations of reliable information on subsoil and the effective use of minerals shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Repeated comission of the same violation within one year from the date of imposition of the fine provided for by part 1 of this Article shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Deviations from the approved project in case of exploitation of subsoil for the purpose not related to extraction of minerals, which result in exogenous geological processes — landfalls, landslides, mudflows and other harmful phenomena, shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Failure to conduct periodic geological and surveying services, maintain the necessary documentation shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Using subsoil for the purpose of extraction of minerals without a relevant permit shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of eighty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold.
Improper implementation or non-implementation of measures aimed at the conservation of subsoil, including restoring (re-cultivation) of soil types envisaged by the exploitation project in case of refrigeration (conservation) during the subsoil use or after completion thereof, shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of eighty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold.
Failure to conduct the monitoring of the condition and stability of the riverbed every month through the topographic mining works each month shall —
entail imposition of a fine on officials in the amount of four-hundred-fold to six-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 60.1 supplemented by HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 60.2. Violation of the rules of publicity of activities related to subsoil use
1. Pursuant to the Code of the Republic of Armenia on Subsoil, failure — by legal persons having the responsibility for submitting a public report on the activities related to subsoil use to the authorised body and the Staff of the Government of the Republic of Armenia — to submit the relevant report within the prescribed time limit shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the officials of the organisation in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary.
(Article 60.2 supplemented by HO-192-N 21 March 2018)
Article 60.3. Failure to eliminate violations of the rules for publicity of activities related to subsoil use
1. Pursuant to the Code of the Republic of Armenia on Subsoil, failure to fulfil the written request of the authorised state administration body with regard to submission of the report within 10 days following the receipt of the request after imposing the liability prescribed by Article 60.2 of this Code for failure — by legal persons responsible for submitting a public report on the activities related to subsoil use to the authorised body and the Staff of the Government of the Republic of Armenia — to submit the relevant report within the prescribed time limit, shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the officials of the organisation in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
2. The same act, where it has been committed again or each subsequent time within one year following the imposition of measures of administrative penalty, shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the officials of the organisation in the amount of three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary.
(Article 60.3 supplemented by HO-192-N 21 March 2018)
Article 61. Violation of the rules of conservation of water resources, performance of unauthorised works affecting waters
Violation of the rules of conservation of water resources or performance of unauthorised works affecting waters having resulted in water pollution, littering, depletion, water erosion of soil and other harmful phenomena, where it has not caused any substantial damage (the pecuniary damage caused does not exceed five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined), shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Repeated commission of the same violation within one year from the date of imposition of the fine provided for by part 1 of this Article shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Violation of the water-saving mode in catchment basins having resulted in water pollution, littering, depletion, erosion and other harmful phenomena, exceeding maximum permissible norms of leakage of harmful substances polluting water bodies, putting into operation utility and other industrial facilities without any structures and appliances preventing water pollution, littering or harmful impact thereof, where it has not caused substantial damage (the pecuniary damage caused does not exceed five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined) shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Failure to seal water meters, measuring and regulating devices at water abstraction points (including at points of water abstraction carried out from groundwaters), damaging the lead seals or pulling out the lead seals shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 61 amended on 4 June 1991, by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, HO-124-N of 11 December 2013, supplemented, amended by HO-322-N of 7 July 2022)
Article 62. Violation of the rules of water abstraction, water supply and water use
Violation of the rules of initial registration of the amount of waters taken from water bodies and those flowing thereinto and of determination of the quality of waters flowing into water bodies shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of three-hundred-fold.
Using water in violation of rules for water supply and water use (including unauthorised use), mismanaged use of water, performance of unauthorised hydro-engineering construction works shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of three-hundred-fold.
(Article 62 amended on 4 June 1991, by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, HO-124-N of 11 December 2013, HO-322-N of 7 July 2022)
Article 63. Damaging water systems and facilities, violating rules of their use
Damaging water systems and facilities, including water supply systems, input lines of multi-apartment buildings, water meters, measuring and regulating devices of apartments and private residential houses, failure to seal them, changing (falsifying) or intentionally pulling out the lead seals shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of fifty-fold, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Commission of the violations provided for by part 1 of this Article, where they have caused technical accidents, shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of eighty-fold, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Violation of the rules of usage of water systems and facilities, including water supply systems, input lines of multi-apartment buildings, water meters, measuring and regulating devices of apartments and private residential houses shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of eighty-fold, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Pouring wastewaters into the flood (rain storm) water drainage systems, except for flood (rain storm) waters, shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of eighty-fold, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(part 5 shall enter into force on 1 January 2030, in accordance with Article 5 of Law HO-219-N)
Collection of flood (rain storm) waters into the centralised water drainage system, where it is not envisaged by the project documents of construction and reconstruction works of the water drainage system, shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Collection of unconfined surface runoff waters (drainage waters) into the centralised water drainage system, shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Violation of the rules of usage of irrigation systems, which has resulted in pollution, littering, shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of eighty-fold, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 63 amended on 4 June 1991, by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, supplemented by HO-219-N of 26 May 2021)
Article 63.1. Violation of sanitary protection and inalienable zones of water systems
Violation of sanitary protection and inalienable zones of water systems shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of eighty-fold and on officials — in the amount of one hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined and elimination of the unauthorised structures.
(Article 63.1 supplemented by HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 63.2. Carrying out water use without a permit for water use or failure to fulfil the requirements or conditions of the water use permit
(title supplemented by HO-130-N of 20 March 2024)
1. Carrying out water use from surface water resources without a water use permit shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the natural person in the amount of two-hundred-fold to four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on the legal person — in the amount of five-hundred-fold to eight-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
1.1. Reopening of decommissioned boreholes or carrying out water use from ground-water resources without a water use permit or drilling a borehole for the purpose of water use without a water use permit or reopening conserved boreholes without a water use permit, where it has not caused significant damage (the pecuniary damage caused does not exceed five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined) —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the natural person in the amount of one-thousand-fold to one-thousand-five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on the legal person — in the amount of two-thousand-fold to three-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined.
1.2. Reopening of decommissioned boreholes in the territories owned by natural and legal persons, and drilling boreholes also for water use purposes without a water use permit or reopening the conserved boreholes without a water use permit for natural and legal persons considered the owners of the territory —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the natural person in the amount of one-thousand-fold to one-thousand-five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on the legal person — in the amount of two-thousand-fold to three-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Failure to fulfil the requirements or conditions of the water use permit —
shall entail imposition of a fine on citizens in the amount of two-hundred-fold to four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of five-hundred-fold to eight-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2.1 Failure to fulfil the requirements or conditions of the water use permit in case of water use from artesian (pressure) water —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the natural person in the amount of five-hundred-fold to eight-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on the legal person — in the amount of one-thousand-fold to one-thousand-five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Carrying out water use at the expense of ecological flow shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of two-hundred-fold to four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of five-hundred-fold to eight-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Repeated commission of the same violation within one year from the date of imposition of the fine provided for by part 3 of this Article shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of four-hundred-fold to six-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of eight-hundred-fold to one-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined or declaring the permit for water use as repealed.
5. Failure to fulfil the requirements for installing flow meter (water metres) at the points of water intake and ecological flow enshrined by the permit for water use or failure to eliminate the disruption of the water meter device, termination of online data transfer, the breakdown or failure of the device within the specified time limit after notification of the failure by short messages or e-mail shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of five-hundred-fold to eight-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-thousand-fold to one-thousand-and-five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
6. Using water from underground fresh water by fish farms without a closed circulation system through a barehole shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of eight-hundred-fold to one-thousand-fold, and on officials — in the amount of two-thousand-fold to three-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 63.2 supplemented by HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, amended by HO-124-N of 11 December 2013, edited by HO-322-N of 7 July 2022, edited, supplemented by HO-378-N of 22 November 2023, HO-130-N of 20 March 2024)
Article 63.3. Use of water systems without a permit for water systems use or use of water systems in violation of the conditions of the permit for waters systems use
(Article repealed by HO-110-N of 23 June 2015)
Article 63.4. Violation the safety standards of hydro-engineering structures causing emergency situations or reduction of indicators thereof
Violation of the safety standards of hydro-engineering structures causing emergency situations or reduction of indicators thereof, where it has not caused substantial damage (the pecuniary damage caused does not exceed five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined) shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of eighty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Repeated commission of the same violation within one year from the date of imposition of the fine provided for by part 1 of this Article shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 63.4 supplemented by HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 63.5. Performing unauthorised works affecting the condition of water systems
Performing unauthorised works affecting the condition of water systems shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of thirty-fold to fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the of the minimum salary defined and elimination of the unauthorised structures.
(Article 63.5 supplemented by HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 63.6. Violation of the rules of (conditions of) using water resources for recreation and sports activities
(title amended by HO-210-N of 13 November 2019)
Violation of the rules of (conditions of) using water resources for recreation and sports activities shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of thirty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 63.6 supplemented by HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, amended by HO-210-N of 13 November 2019)
Article 64. Using forest lands without a proper permit or unauthorised seizure thereof
(title amended by HO-121-N of 10 July 2019)
Using forest lands without a proper permit, unauthorised seizure of forest areas for the purpose of construction of buildings, processing of timber, construction of warehouses and for other uses and failure to return them to the owner shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of one-hundred-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of three-hundred-fold to four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 64 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, HO-68-N of 24 December 2004, HO-121-N of 10 July 2019)
Article 65. Violation of the procedure prescribed for using felling areas, harvesting and removing timber, transportation of illegally acquired forest materials
(title supplemented by HO-98-N of 8 April 2009, edited by HO-121-N of 10 July 2019)
Violation of the procedure prescribed for using felling areas, harvesting and removing timber, transportation of illegally acquired forest materials shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of one-hundred-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of two-hundred-fold to four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 65 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO 495-N of 11 December 2002, HO-68-N of 24 December 2004, supplemented, edited by HO-98-N of 8 April 2009, edited by HO-121-N of 10 July 2019)
Article 66. Illegal cutting of trees, bushes or vegetation cover or transportation of illegally acquired tree trunks, trees or bushes
(title edited by HO-121-N of 10 July 2019, HO-155-N of 9 June 2022)
1. Illegal cutting of or destroying a tree, bush or vegetation cover under the ownership of the state, community or belonging to other persons, or damaging them to the extent of growth retardation shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of one-hundred-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of two-hundred-fold to three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 66 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, HO-68-N of 24 December 2004, edited by HO-121-N of 10 July 2019, HO-155-N of 9 June 2022)
Article 67. Destroying or damaging young growth in forests
(Article 67 edited by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, repealed by HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 68. Forest use not complying with the purposes or requirements provided for by documents conferring a right on forest use
Forest use not complying with the purposes or requirements provided for by documents conferring a right on forest use shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of one-hundred-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of three-hundred-fold to four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 68 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, HO-68-N of 24 December 2004, HO-121-N of 10 July 2019)
Article 69. Violation of the rules of forest restoration and improvement, of use of mature timber resources
Violation of the rules and instructions of forest restoration, improvement of the condition and species composition of forests, increase in the effectiveness thereof, as well as the use of mature timber resources shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 69 amended by HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, HO-121-N of 10 July 2019)
Article 70. Damaging grasslands and pastures on state forest lands
(title amended by HO-121-N of 10 July 2019)
Damaging grasslands and pastures on the state forest lands shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of fifty-fold to eighty-fold, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 70 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, HO-121-N of 10 July 2019)
Article 71. Unauthorised grass-mowing and cattle grazing in treeless plains of state forest lands and/or violation of the rules thereof
(title amended by HO-121-N of 10 July 2019)
Unauthorised grass-mowing and cattle grazing in treeless plains of state forest lands and/or violation of the rules thereof shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of fifty-fold to eighty-fold, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 71 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, HO-121-N of 10 July 2019)
Article 72. Unauthorised collection of wild fruits, nuts, mushrooms, berries
Unauthorised collection of wild fruits, nuts, mushrooms, berries, etc. in the areas of the forest where it is prohibited or permitted only by forest tickets shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of the minimum salary defined and on officials — in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Collecting wild fruits, nuts, berries, etc. in violation of the time limits and methods for the collection thereof shall—
entail a warning or imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of twenty-five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 72 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, edited by HO-98-N of 8 April 2009)
Article 73. Putting the production facilities into operation without installations preventing harmful impacts on the forest
Putting into operation new and reconstructed enterprises, production units, aggregates, transport routes, utility and other facilities not equipped with installations preventing harmful impacts on the condition and reproduction of forests shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 73 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, HO-121-N of 10 July 2019)
Article 74. Damaging the forest with chemical and radioactive substances, production wastewaters, industrial emissions and production waste
Contaminating the forest with chemical and radioactive substances, production wastewaters, industrial emissions and production waste, as a result whereof the forest has withered or got diseased, shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 74 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, HO-121-N of 10 July 2019)
Article 75. Contaminating the forests with wastewater, household refuse and wastes
Contaminating the forests with wastewater, household refuse and wastes shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of two-hundred-fold.
(Article 75 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, HO-121-N of 10 July 2019)
Article 76. Destroying or damaging systems and paths of marshlands and drainage ditches in state forest lands
(title amended by HO-121-N of 10 July 2019)
Destroying or damaging systems and paths of marshlands and drainage ditches in state forest lands shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of fifty-fold to eighty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold.
(Article 76 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, HO-121-N of 10 July 2019)
Article 77. Destroying or damaging forestry and other restrictive signs in forest lands
(title amended by HO-121-N of 10 July 2019)
Destroying or damaging forestry and other restrictive signs in forest lands shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of eighty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold.
(Article 77 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, HO-121-N of 10 July 2019)
Article 78. Damaging the fauna of the forest
Damaging the fauna of the forest shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-sixty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of two-hundred-fold to three-hundred-fold.
(Article 78 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, HO-121-N of 10 July 2019)
Article 79. Destroying or damaging trees, bushes, young growth and cultivated plants as a result of arson or careless handling of fire
Destroying or damaging trees, bushes, young growth and cultivated plants as a result of arson shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of three-hundred-and-fifty-fold.
Destroying or damaging trees, bushes, young growth and cultivated plants as a result of careless handling of fire, as well as violation of the rules of fire safety in forests shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of one-hundred-and-sixty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of three-hundred-fold.
(Article 79 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, edited by HO-146-N of 15 June 2006, HO-121-N of 10 July 2019)
Article 79.1. Violation of the requirements of regulatory documents on the fire safety in forests
Violation of the requirements of regulatory documents on the fire safety in forests, as a result whereof the forest was set on fire or the fire has spread on a significant surface, shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of two-hundred-fold.
(Article 79.1 supplemented by HO-146-N of 15 June 2006, amended by HO-121-N of 10 July 2019)
Article 80. Emission of atmospheric pollutants into the atmosphere from stationary sources, in excess of permissible emissions standards or without an emission permit
(title edited by HO-524-N of 7 December 2022)
1. Emission of atmospheric pollutants from stationary sources without the permit for emission shall—
entail imposition of a fine on natural persons involved in entrepreneurial activities in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on legal persons — in the amount of three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Excess of standards on permissible emissions prescribed by the permit for emission into the atmosphere from stationary sources shall—
entail imposition of a fine on natural persons involved in entrepreneurial activities in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on legal persons — in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 80 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-459-N of 6 November 2002, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, edited by HO-524-N of 7 December 2022)
Article 80.1. Failure to inform in writing the state authorised body on the import of ozone-depleting substances and hydrofluorocarbons
(title supplemented, amended by HO-149-N of 4 March 2020)
Failure to inform in writing the state authorised body on each period of import of ozone-depleting substances and hydrofluorocarbons and about the quantity of the ozone-depleting substances and hydrofluorocarbons being imported, shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
The same violation, that has been committed again within a year upon imposition of measures of administrative penalty, shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of eighty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 80.1supplemented by HO-215-N of 27 November 2006, supplemented, amended by HO-149-N of 4 March 2020)
Article 81. Putting structures and other facilities into operation without fulfilling the requirements for protection of the atmospheric air
Building and operating structures and other facilities not meeting the requirements for protection of atmospheric air shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of eighty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 81 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-459-N of 6 November 2002, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 81.1. Failure to implement measures preventing dust emissions during construction of facilities being built (re-constructed, demolished) in the territory of the Republic of Armenia
Failure to fulfil the requirements for protection of the atmospheric air during construction of facilities being built (re-constructed, demolished) in the territory of the Republic of Armenia — failure to fence construction sites for the purpose of preventing dust emissions or to cover constructions with an impermeable cover having height relevant to the construction or failure to water (moisten) the construction site regularly during the day in case of positive air temperature or to use devices, technologies excluding dust emissions while carrying out grinding works or failure to store sand, cement, plaster, gravel chippings, other bulk solids, soil masses, as well as construction waste in enclosed areas or cover them with an impermeable cover or failure to wash the tires of motor vehicles leaving the construction site — shall—
entail imposition of a fine on natural persons (including natural persons involved in entrepreneurial activities) in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on legal persons — in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
The same violation that has been committed again within one year after imposition of measures of administrative penalty shall—
entail imposition of a fine on natural persons (including natural persons involved in entrepreneurial activities) in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on legal persons — in the amount of three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 81.1 supplemented by HO-98-N of 8 April 2009, amended by HO-524-N of 7 December 2022)
Article 81.2. Failure to fulfil the requirements for the protection of atmospheric air while transporting construction materials and waste by motor vehicles
In the territory of the Republic of Armenia, carrying out the transportation of sand, cement, plaster or gravel chippings or other bulk solids or soil masses, as well as construction waste in motor vehicles without dust-resistant covers shall—
entail imposition of a fine on natural persons (including natural persons involved in entrepreneurial activities) in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on legal persons — in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
The same violation that has been committed again within one year after imposition of measures of administrative penalty shall—
entail imposition of a fine on natural persons (including natural persons involved in entrepreneurial activities) in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on legal persons — in the amount of three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 81.2 supplemented by HO-98-N of 8 April 2009, amended by HO-331-N of 22 May 2018, HO-524-N of 7 December 2022, HO-397-N of 11 December 2023)
Article 82. Violation of the rules of operation of equipment used for cleaning the atmosphere from emissions, as well as failure to use them
Violation of the rules of operation of installations, equipment and machinery installed for cleaning of and supervising over the emissions into atmosphere, as well as failure to use them shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 82 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-459-N of 6 November 2002, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 83. Putting into operation means of transport and other vehicles in excess of standards of pollutants contained in the emissions thereof
Putting into operation motor vehicles, aircrafts and other vehicles and installations the content of pollutants in the emissions whereof, as well as the level of noise generated thereby during the operation whereof exceeds the prescribed standards, shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of eighty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 83 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-459-N of 6 November 2002, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 84. Operating motor-vehicle transport and other vehicles in excess of standards of pollutants contained in the emissions thereof
Operating — by the citizens — motor-vehicle transport, other vehicles and installations the content of pollutants in the emissions whereof, as well as the level of noise generated thereby during the operation whereof exceeds the prescribed standards shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 84 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-459-N of 6 November 2002, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 84.1. Failure to make measurements of the pollutants emitted from motor vehicles or failure to meet the requirements for and conditions of the procedure for measurement
Provision of a receipt on compliance with standards of pollutants emitted from motor vehicles without making measurements by organisations having licenses for making measurements of the pollutants emitted from motor vehicles or failure to comply with the requirements for and conditions of the measurement procedure shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 84.1 supplemented by HO-98-N of 8 April 2009)
Article 85. Failure to fulfil the requirements for protection of the atmospheric air when storing and burning industrial and household refuse
Violation of the rules of storing industrial and household refuse, failure to fulfil the requirements for protection of the atmospheric air when burning the mentioned refuse, shall—
entail warning or imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-fold.
(Article 85 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-459-N of 6 November 2002, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 85.1. Burning of production or consumption wastes or waste originating from defoliation in natural environment, residential areas
(title edited by HO-524-N of 7 December 2022)
1. Burning of production or consumption wastes or waste originating from defoliation in natural environment or in residential areas or in their surrounding areas or in other sites or in boiler houses or furnaces not intended for burning thereof, shall—
entail a warning or imposition of a fine on natural persons (including natural persons involved in entrepreneurial activities) in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on legal persons — in the amount of two-hundred-fold.
2. The violations prescribed by part 1 of this Article which were committed in waste management facilities or in specifically allocated places or in unlicensed landfills shall—
entail imposition of a fine on natural persons (including natural persons involved in entrepreneurial activities) in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on legal persons — in the amount of four-hundred-fold.
3. The violations of part 2 of this Article which has been committed again after imposing measures of administrative penalty within one year shall—
entail imposition of a fine on natural persons (including natural persons involved in entrepreneurial activities) in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on legal persons — in the amount of eight-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 85.1 supplemented by HO-98-N of 8 April 2009, edited by HO-524-N of 7 December 2022)
Article 85.2. Burning stubbles, areas with plant residues and dried vegetation, the vegetation of pastures and grasslands in agricultural lands, as well as forest lands and lands in specially protected areas of nature
(title edited by HO-121-N of 10 July 2019, amended by HO-524-N of 7 December 2022)
Burning stubbles, areas with plant residues and dried vegetation, the vegetation of pastures and grasslands in agricultural lands, shall—
entail imposition of a fine on natural persons (including natural persons involved in entrepreneurial activities) in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on legal persons — in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold.
Burning stubbles, areas with plant residues and dry vegetation, the vegetation of pastures and grasslands in forest lands and lands in specially protected areas of nature shall—
entail imposition of a fine on natural persons (including natural persons involved in entrepreneurial activities) in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on legal persons — in the amount of three-hundred-fold.
(Article 85.2 supplemented by HO-251-N of 14 September 2011, edited by HO-121-N of 10 July 2019, amended by HO-524-N of 7 December 2022)
Article 86. Violation of the rules of transporting, storing and applying the plant protection products
Violation of the rules of transporting, storing and applying the plant protection products, growth stimulants thereof, mineral fertilisers and other preparations, that has resulted or might have resulted in pollution of atmospheric air or has caused damage to the fauna, shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-fold.
(Article 86 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-459-N of 6 November 2002, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 87. Failure to comply with the assignments of bodies exercising supervision over the compliance with the requirements of environmental legislation
(Article repealed by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 87.1. Failure to submit to the state authorised body the report provided for by the law on the use of individual rates for import of ozone-depleting substances and hydrofluorocarbons by the applicants having got a permit for the delivery of those substances
Failure to submit to the state authorised body the report provided for by the law on the use of individual rates for import of ozone-depleting substances and hydrofluorocarbons by the applicants having got a permit for the delivery of those substance or the overdue submission of the given report, shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the individual entrepreneurs in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 87.1 supplemented by HO-149-N of 4 March 2020)
Article 87.2. Failure to provide information obtained as a result of the study of the fauna by the entities studying the fauna
1. Failure to provide the information obtained as a result of the study of the fauna to authorized body by the entities studying the fauna within the specified time limits shall entail warning.
2. Repeated commission of the same act within one year shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 87.2 supplemented by HO-75-N of 23 March 2022)
(Law HO-75-N of 23 March 2022 has a transitional provision)
Article 87.3. Failure by the legal or natural persons to provide information on the zoological collections
1. Failure by the legal or natural persons to provide information to the authorised body on the zoological collections under their possession through the procedure and within the time limits defined by the Government of the Republic of Armenia shall–
entail a warning.
2. Repeated commission of the same act within one year shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 87.3 supplemented by HO-75-N of 23 March 2022)
(Article HO-75-N of 23 March 2022 has a transitional provision)
Article 87.4. Failure to conduct monitoring of leakages of regulated substances as prescribed
1. Failure to conduct monitoring of leakages of regulated substances as prescribed shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the individual entrepreneurs in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 87.4 supplemented by HO-399-N of 11 December 2023)
Article 87.5. Failure to electronically submit the information on monitoring of leakages of regulated substances to the authorised state body in accordance with the prescribed procedure and time limits
1. Failure to electronically submit the information on monitoring of leakages of regulated substances to the authorised state body in accordance with the prescribed procedure and time limits shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the individual entrepreneurs in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. The same violation that has been committed again within one year after imposition of measures of administrative penalty shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the individual entrepreneurs in the amount of eighty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of two-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 87.5 supplemented by HO-399-N of 11 December 2023)
Article 87.6. Failure to eliminate the leakages of regulated substances within 14 days after detection thereof
1. Failure to eliminate or elimination of the leakages of regulated substances later than the established time period within 14 days after detection thereof shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the individual entrepreneurs in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. The same violation that has been committed again within one year after imposition of measures of administrative penalty shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the individual entrepreneurs in the amount of eighty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of two-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 87.6 supplemented by HO-399-N of 11 December 2023)
Article 88. Violation of the rules of conservation of fauna, including fish resources, of hunting and fishing, as well as other rules of the use of fauna
(title amended by HO-121-N of 10 July 2019)
1. Violation of the rules of conservation of fauna, including fish resources, of hunting and fishing, as well as other rules for use of fauna shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the natural person in the amount of seventy-fold to one-hundred-and-forty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on the legal person — in the amount of one-hundred-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, with confiscation of the rifle and hunting equipment under personal ownership of the violator, as well as other objects and animals deemed to be means for committing the mentioned violations.
2. The act prescribed by part 1 of this Article, which has been committed against whitefish species —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the natural person in the amount of three-hundred-fold to four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on the legal person — in the amount of five-hundred-fold to six-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, with confiscation of the hunting tools, fishing nets under personal ownership of the violator, and other objects considered a tool for committing the offences in question or the hunted whitefish, as well as its by-products.
3. Taking the watercraft — used for the purpose of fishing in Lake Sevan — in or out of the territories outside the area of entry and exit created or envisaged for industrial fishing —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Repeated commission of the act prescribed by part 3 of this Article— during the period of the permission for fishing — within one year after the decision on imposing an administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of the five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 88 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, HO-178-N of 23 May 2011, HO-121-N of 10 July 2019, supplemented by HO-219-N of 26 May 2021, amended by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022, edited by HO-130-N of 20 March 2024)
Article 88.1. Keeping wild animals, including animals registered in the Red Data Book of animals of the Republic of Armenia in captivity and semi-free conditions or failure to provide the data on the registration thereof to the authorised body by the natural or legal persons without relevant permission
1. Keeping wild animals, including animals registered in the Red Data Book of animals of the Republic of Armenia in captivity and semi-free conditions by natural or legal persons without relevant permission shall—
entail imposition of a fine on citizens in the amount of one-hundred-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on legal persons — in the amount of one-hundred-seventy-fold to two-hundred-fifty-fold.
2. Failure by legal or natural persons to provide to the authorised body the data on registration of wild animals, including animals registered in the Red Data Book of animals of the Republic of Armenia in accordance with the procedure and time limits prescribed by the authorised body, shall—
entail a warning.
3. Repeated commission of the same act within one year shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 88.1 supplemented by HO-75-N of 23 March 2022)
(Law HO-75-N of 23 March 2022 has a transitional provision)
Article 88.2. Failure by the natural or legal persons to meet the requirements for and conditions of purchase and sale of wild animals, including animals registered in the Red Data Book of animals of the Republic of Armenia, by -products and parts thereof
Failure by the natural or legal persons to meet the requirements for and conditions of purchase and sale of wild animals, including animals registered in the Red Data Book of animals of the Republic of Armenia, by-products and parts thereof shall
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold to two-hundred-fold, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-and-seventy-fold to two-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 88.2 supplemented by HO-75-N of 23 March 2022)
(Law HO-75-N of 23 March 2022 has a transitional provision)
Article 88.3. Using the fauna objects for purposes other than agricultural (selection), industrial (hunting, fishing, gathering, including gathering and processing of animal by-products), social, environmental, scientific and research, educational, healthcare and reproduction organisation or non-targeted use thereof by the natural or legal persons
(Article as supplemented by Law HO-75-N of 23 March 2022, shall enter into force after the adoption of the procedure prescribed by points (c1), (c2) and (c5) of Article 5 of the Law "On fauna")
Article 88.4. Illegal hunting
1. Illegal hunting of a wild animals or a bird, committed—
(1) without a relevant permit;
(2) within the period prohibited for hunting thereof; or
(3) in a prohibited place shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold to two-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-and-seventy-fold to two-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, with confiscation of the rifles and hunting equipment under personal ownership of the violator, other objects and animals deemed to be means of committing the mentioned violations, as well as deprivation of the right to hunt for a period of 2 to 3 years.
(Article 88.4 supplemented by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022)
Article 89. Illegal hunting of aquatic animals or illegal harvesting of aquatic animals or aquatic plants
(title edited by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022)
1. Illegal hunting of fish or other aquatic animal or illegal harvesting of fish, other aquatic animal or aquatic plant, committed—
(1) without a relevant permit;
(2) within the period prohibited for hunting or harvesting thereof;
(3) in a prohibited place; or
(4) with prohibited tools, means or methods—
shall entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of fifty-fold to one hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one hundred-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, with confiscation of everything acquired through hunting, hunting tools, as well as floating equipment and all the belongings related thereto that have become means for committing violations.
2. The act prescribed by part 1 of this Article, which has been committed against whitefish species or whitefish caviar, causing property damage of small amount—
(1) without a relevant permit; or
(2) within the period prohibited for hunting or harvesting thereof; or
(3) in a prohibited place; or
(4) with prohibited tools, means or methods —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the natural person in the amount of three-hundred-fold to four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on the legal person — in the amount of five-hundred-fold to six-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, with confiscation of the hunting tools, fishing nets constituting the personal property of the offender, and other objects considered a tool for committing the offences in question, illegally hunted or illegally harvested whitefish or whitefish caviar.
3. Within the meaning of part 2 of this Article, a small amount shall be the amount (value) not exceeding AMD 150 000.
(Article 89 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, HO-178-N of 23 May 2011, edited by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022, supplemented by HO-130-N of 20 March 2024)
Article 90. Violation of the rules of protection of habitat of animals, migration routes, of their delivery and carriage abroad. Illegally bringing animals and plants into the Republic of Armenia
Violation of the rules of protection of habitat of animals and migration routes, unauthorised relocation, acclimatisation and cross-breeding of animals, as well as violation of the rules of creation, replenishment, protection, use and registration of zoological collections, rules of trade of zoological collections, as well as rules of delivery and carriage of objects of the fauna and zoological collections abroad shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of fifty-fold to eighty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold.
Illegally bringing animals and plants — recognised as animals and plants causing damages to the preservation of animal species registered in the Red Data Book of the Republic of Armenia — into the Republic of Armenia shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of fifty-fold to eighty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold.
(Article 90 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 90.1. Export of wild animals, by-products thereof, zoological collections and specific specimen from the territory of the Republic of Armenia and the import thereof into the territory of the Republic of Armenia by the natural or legal persons without a relevant permit, licence
(Article as supplemented by Law HO-75-N of 23 March 2022, shall enter into force after the adoption of the procedure prescribed by point (e1) of part 1 of Article 6 of the Law "On fauna")
Article 91. Destroying animals registered in the Red Data Book of the Republic of Armenia
Destroying rare and endangered species of animals registered in the Red Data Book of the Republic of Armenia, their habitats, spawning areas and eggs, migration routes, nests and other structures or performance of other activities that may cause or have caused decline of such animals, reduction in their number or violation of migration of habitat or, in exceptional cases, hunting therefor in violation of the permitted hunting conditions shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of eighty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, with confiscation of objects under personal ownership of the violator, deemed to be means for committing the mentioned violations or without confiscation thereof.
(Article 91 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 92. Cruel treatment of animals
(Article repealed by HO-195-N of 23 October 2019)
Article 93. Collecting plants registered in the Red Data Book
Unauthorised collection of plants registered in the Red Book of the Republic of Armenia, as well as the roots, flowers, fruits thereof shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of eighty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold.
(Article 93 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 94. Violation of the regime of specially protected areas of nature
(title edited by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022)
1. Violation of the regime of state reserves, sanctuaries, national parks, monuments of nature and other areas of nature or objects specially protected by the State, or destroying or damaging thereof or violation of the procedure prescribed for the use of fauna therein shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of three-hundred- fold.
2. Repeated commission the same violation within six months after imposition of measures of administrative penalty shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of two-hundred-fold, and on officials — in the amount of three-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 94 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, edited by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022, amended, supplemented by HO-290-N of 12 September 2023)
Article 94.1. Conducting activities in violation of the requirements for environmental impact assessment and expert examination
(title edited by HO-152-N of 3 May 2023)
1. Conducting envisaged activities subject to assessment and expert examination of their environmental impact without a positive expert opinion or conucting envisaged activities subject to assessment and expert examination of their environmental impact in case of availability of a report with negative opinion by virtue of law or negative expert opinion shall—
entail imposition of a fine on citizens in the case of A Category of envisaged activities prescribed by the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On environmental impact assessment and expert examination” in the amount of five-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials or legal persons — in the amount of ten-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined, in case of B Category of envisaged activities prescribed by the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On environmental impact assessment and expert examination” on citizens – in the amount of two-thousand-and-five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials or legal persons — in the amount of five-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Failure to meet the requirements or the conditions for the draft documents or report on Environmental Impact Assessment subject to expert examination, including the environmental management plan or the monitoring plan for environmental impact or the expert opinion during the performance of the envisaged activities, and in case of prescribed periods — failure to meet the requirements or conditions within the prescribed periods or violation or deviation from them shall—
entail imposition of a fine on citizens in the case of A Category of envisaged activities prescribed by the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On environmental impact assessment and expert examination” in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials or legal persons — in the amount of four-hundred-fold, in case of B Category of envisaged activities prescribed by the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On environmental impact assessment and expert examination” on citizens — in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials or legal persons — in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Failure to meet, starting from the day of imposition of the fine prescribed by part 2 of this Article, the conditions or requirements for the draft documents or report on Environmental Impact Assessment subject to expert examination within the period prescribed by the inspection body, including the plan for environmental management or the plan for monitoring environmental impact or the expert opinion, failure to eliminate the violations of or deviations from the requirements or conditions shall—
entail imposition of a fine on citizens in the case of A Category of envisaged activities prescribed by the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On environmental impact assessment and expert examination” in the amount of five-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined, on officials or legal persons — in the amount of ten-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined, in case of B Category of envisaged activities prescribed by the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On environmental impact assessment and expert examination” on citizens — in the amount of two-thousand-and-five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials or legal persons — in the amount of five-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 94.1 supplemented by HO-495-N of 11 December 2002, edited by HO-152-N of 3 May 2023)
Article 95. Violation of the rules of preservation or use of historical and cultural monuments
(title edited by HO-34-N of 19 March 2012)
Violation of the rules of the preservation or use of historical and cultural monuments shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of three-hundred- fold to three-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Repeated commission of the same violation within six months after imposition of measures of administrative penalty shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of two-hundred-fold, and on officials — in the amount of four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 95 edited by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-34-N of 19 March 2012, amended, supplemented by HO-290-N of 12 September 2023)
Article 95.1. Violation of the requirements of normative technical documents in the field of geodesy and cartography by entities performing geodetic and cartographic activities
Violation of the requirements of normative technical documents in the field of geodesy and cartography by entities performing geodetic and cartographic activities shall—
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 95.1 supplemented by HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 95.2. Violation of the procedure prescribed for registration and preservation of border marks of geodetic points and administrative and territorial units
Violation of the procedure prescribed for registration and preservation of border marks of geodetic points and administrative and territorial units shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of thirty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of fifty-fold.
(Article 95.2 supplemented by HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 95.3. Violation of the procedures for metrological assurance, certification and observance of standards during geodetic activities
Violation of the procedures for metrological assurance, certification and observance of standards during geodetic activities shall—
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 95.3 supplemented by HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 95.4. Incorrect indication of geographical names on state-scale series maps and plans
Incorrect indication of geographical names on state-scale series maps and plans shall—
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of thirty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 9.1 supplemented by HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 95.5. Violation of the procedure established for the conservation of cartographic and geodetic funds, dissemination and use of materials and data, as well as provision of information of state and local significance (agency-level)
Violation of the procedure established for the conservation of cartographic and geodetic funds, dissemination and use of materials and data, as well as provision of information of state and local significance (agency-level) shall—
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 95.5 supplemented by HO-495-N of 11 December 2002)
Article 95.6. Performance of activities for creating, processing or gathering basic spatial data and metadata on the territory of the Republic of Armenia without permission
1. Performance by foreign natural and legal persons of activities for creating, processing or gathering basic spatial data and metadata on the territory of the Republic of Armenia, including performance of aerial photography without the permission of the Cadastre Committee shall—
entail imposition of a fine on foreign natural persons in the amount of five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on foreign legal persons — in the amount of two-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined, as well as confiscation of data and materials which are an object of the offence.
2. Repeated commission of the offence specified in part 1 of this Article within one year shall—
entail imposition of a fine on foreign natural persons in the amount of one-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on foreign legal persons — in the amount of four-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined, as well as confiscation of data and materials which are an object of the offence.
3. Performance by citizens and legal entities of the Republic of Armenia of activities for creating, processing or gathering basic spatial data and metadata on the territory of the Republic of Armenia, including aerial photography through state geodesic and cartographic activities prescribed by Article 3 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On geodesic and cartographic activities” without permission of the Cadastre Committee shall—
entail imposition of a fine on citizens in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on legal persons — in the amount of one-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined, as well as confiscation of data and materials which are object of the offence.
4. Repeated commission of the offence specified in part 3 of this Article within one year shall—
entail imposition of a fine on citizens in the amount of four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on legal persons — in the amount of two-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined, as well as confiscation of data and materials which are object of the offence.
(Article 95.6 supplemented by HO-22-N of 17 January 2023)
Article 95.7. Violation of the requirements of the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On museums”
1. Causing damage to museum objects shall
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of fifty-fold to eighty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
The same damage which has been caused by the employee of the museum shall
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of eighty-fold to one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 95.7 supplemented by HO-94-N of 28 February 2024)
CHAPTER 8
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFENCES IN THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY, USE OF ELECTRIC, THERMAL AND NUCLEAR ENERGY
(title amended by HO-85 of 4 November 1996)
Article 96. Violation of work safety rules, norms and instructions
Violation of the rules, norms and instructions for safe performance of works by officials, multiple times, in branches of industry and facilities subject to supervision of the State Mining and Technical Supervision , shall —
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of 30 percent to the full amount of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 96 edited by HO-79 of 2 September 1993)
Article 96.1. Violation of technical regulations or technical safety rules defining requirements for healthy and safe performance of work
(title supplemented by HO-27-N of 10 February 2023)
Violation of technical regulations or technical safety rules defining requirements for healthy and safe performance of work shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the employer in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Violation of technical regulations or technical safety rules defining requirements for healthy and safe performance of work more than once shall—
entail imposition of a fine on the employer in the amount of hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 96.1 supplemented by HO-78-N of 24 March 2005, HO-27-N of 10 February 2023)
Article 97. Violation of the norms, rules and instructions effective in the field of use of nuclear energy
Violation of the norms, rules and instructions effective in the field of use of nuclear energy shall—
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold to twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 97 edited by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-85 of 4 November 1996)
Article 97.1. Violation of the requirements of the orders of the State Nuclear Safety Regulatory Committee
(title amended by HO-48-N of 8 February 2011)
Violation of the requirements of the orders of the State Nuclear Safety Regulatory Committee by persons engaged in activities in the field of use of nuclear energy shall —
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold to twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 97.1 supplemented by HO-85 of 4 November 1996, amended by HO-48-N of 8 February 2011)
Article 97.2. Forcing the personnel of the nuclear station, radioactive waste station, ionising radiation source to violate the exploitation procedures or safety rules by officials
Forcing the personnel of the nuclear station, radioactive waste station, ionising radiation source staff to violate the exploitation procedures or safety rules by officials shall —
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold to fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 97.2 supplemented by HO-85 of 4 November 1996, edited by HO-32-N of 16 December 2005)
Article 97.3. Hindering the performance of official duties of the nuclear station, radioactive waste station, ionising radiation source personnel and officials
Hindering the performance of official duties of the nuclear station, radioactive waste station, ionising radiation source personnel and officials shall —
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold to fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 97.3 supplemented by HO-85 of 4 November 1996, edited by HO-32-N of 16 December 2005)
Article 97.4. Hindering the performance of official duties of the officials of the State Nuclear Safety Regulatory Committee
(title amended by HO-48-N of 8 February 2011)
Hindering the performance of official duties of the officials of the Nuclear Safety Regulatory Committee shall—
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold to forty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 97.4 supplemented by HO-85 of 4 November 1996, amended by HO-48-N of 8 February 2011)
Article 97.5. Concealing the fact of accident, violating the procedure for communicating information on the accident, communicating false information on the state of radiation
Concealing the fact of accident at the nuclear station, nuclear waste station, ionising radiation source or violating the procedure for communicating information on the accident, concealing information on environmental radiation pollution, communicating false information on the state of radiation to competent organisations shall —
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of thirty-fold to fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 97.5 supplemented by HO-85 of 4 November 1996)
Article 97.6. Concealing or distorting the information on nuclear and radiation safety
Concealing or distorting information on nuclear and radiation safety in the field of use of nuclear energy shall—
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold to thirty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 97.6 supplemented by HO-85 of 4 November 1996)
Article 98. Violation of the rules, norms and instructions for storing, using and registering explosive substances
Violation of the rules, norms and instructions for storing, using and registering explosive substances in the branches of industry and facilities subject to supervision of the State Mining and Technical Supervision by officials shall —
entail imposition of a fine in the amount fifty percent to hundred percent of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 98 edited by HO-79 of 2 September 1993)
Article 99. Wasting electric and thermal energy
(Article repealed by HO-37-N of 14 December 2004)
Article 100. Damaging electric networks with voltages up to 1000 volts
(Article repealed by HO-37-N of 14 December 2004)
Article 101. Violation of the rules of protection of electric networks with voltages higher than 1000 volts
(Article repealed by HO-37-N of 14 December 2004)
Article 102. Damaging gas pipelines
(Article repealed by HO-37-N of 14 December 2004)
Article 103. Violations related to gas use
(Article repealed by HO-37-N of 14 December 2004)
Article 104. Connecting the newly built and re-constructed energy installations to the operating networks without the opinion on operation by the state authorised body carrying out state technical supervision in the field of energy and in the sector of energy consumption
Connecting the newly built and re-constructed energy installations to the operating networks without the opinion on operation by the state authorised body carrying out state technical supervision in the field of energy and in the sector of energy consumption shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 104 amended by HO-139 of 25 May 1995, HO-37-N of 14 December 2004, HO-2-N of 8 December 2005)
Article 104.1. Hindering or not allowing inspections of the power consumption regime conducted by the state energy control or electricity supply authorities
(Article 104.1 adopted by HO-139 of 25 May 1995, repealed by HO-37-N of 14 December 2004)
Article 104.2. Conducting illegal electrical supply in enterprises, institutions and organisations, as well as granting illegal permission to connect other objects to the internal electric transmission lines or contact network of electric transport of enterprises, institutions, organisations
(Article 104.2 adopted by HO-139 of 25 May 1995, repealed by HO-37-N of 14 December 2004)
Article 104.3. Illegal granting of permission to connect objects to the electric network by the state energy control and electricity supply authorities, or failure to eliminate illegal connections, or violation of the established schedule of electric energy supply
(Article 104.3 adopted by HO-139 of 25 May 1995, repealed by HO-37-N of 14 December 2004)
Article 105. Hindering or not allowing implementation of the functions of the state authorised body carrying out state technical supervision in the field of energy and in the sector of energy consumption, as well as failure to comply with the orders issued by that body
(Article repealed by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 106. Failure to undertake measures to ensure the readiness of reserve heat supply system for work
(Article repealed by HO-37-N of 14 December 2004)
Article 106.1. Failure to inform the authorised body exercising state technical supervision in the field of energy and in the sector of energy consumption on the accidents having occurred at energy installations by persons carrying out activities in the field of energy
Failure to inform the authorised body exercising state technical supervision in the field of energy and in the sector of energy consumption on the accidents having occurred at energy installations by persons carrying out activities in the field of energy shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 106.1 supplemented by HO-2-N of 8 December 2005)
CHAPTER 9
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFENCES IN AGRICULTURE.
VIOLATIONS OF VETERINARY-SANITARY RULES
Article 107. Destroying sown areas of collective farming, government-run cooperatives and other state and public cooperatives, spoiling or destructing the cut yield in the field of agricultural crops, damaging the seedlings
Destroying sown areas of collective farming, government-run cooperatives and other state and public cooperatives, spoiling or destructing the cut yield in the field of agricultural crops, damaging the seedlings by animals or birds shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of ten percent to thirthy percent, and on officials — in the amount of up to fifty percent of the minimum salary defined.
Double destroying of sown areas of collective farming, government-run cooperatives and other state and public cooperatives by animals and birds, double spoiling or destruction of the cut yield in the field of agricultural crops, double damaging of the seedlings, which has been committed within one year after imposition of a fine for similar offence shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of ten percent to fifty percent of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of thirty percent to the full amount thereof.
Passing through sown areas or seedlings by a car, tractor, combine harvester or other vehicle shall —
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of up to ten percent of the minimum salary defined.
Passing through sown areas or seedlings by animal-drawn transport shall —
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of up to five percent of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 107 edited by HO-79 of 4 June 1988, HO-79 of 2 September 1993)
Article 108. Violation of the rules of fighting against plant quarantine pests
(title edited by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Violation of the rules of fighting against plant quarantine pests shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the natural persons in the amount of fifty-fold to one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 108 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-174-N of 8 December 2004, edited by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 109. Bringing out materials that have not been subjected to quarantine inspection and relevant processing
Bringing out materials brought from foreign countries that have not been subjected to quarantine inspection and appropriate processing from border railway stations, coach stations (bus stations), airports and other border points shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the natural persons in the amount of fifteen-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 109 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-174-N of 8 December 2004)
Article 109.1. Sales of expired, low-quality pesticides and agrochemicals not registered in the Republic of Armenia or included in the relevant nomenclature
(title edited by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Sales of expired, low-quality pesticides and agrochemicals not registered in the Republic of Armenia or included in the relevant nomenclature shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the natural persons in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of three-hundred-fold to four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 109.1 supplemented by HO-173-N of 9 November 2006, edited by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 109.2. Exceeding the maximum permissible residual quantities of pesticides and agrochemicals in the soil and goods of plant origin
(title edited by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Exceeding the maximum permissible residual quantities of pesticides and agrochemicals in the soil and goods of plant origin shall —
entail imposition of a fine on the natural persons in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 109.2 supplemented by HO-173-N of 9 November 2006, edited by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 109.3. Violation of the requirements for packaging and marking of pesticides and agrochemicals
1. Violation of the requirements for packaging and marking of pesticides and agrochemicals shall
entail imposition of a fine on natural persons in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold, and on officials — in the amount of two-hundred-fold to two-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 109.3 supplemented by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 109.4. Violation of the rules of storage, preservation, sale, trade and transportation of pesticides and agrochemicals
Violation the rules of storage, preservation, sale, trade and transportation of pesticides and agrochemicals shall –
entail imposition of a fine on the natural persons in the amount of thirty-fold to fifty-fold, and on officials — in the amount of eighty-fold to one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 109.4 supplemented by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 110. Failure of land users to undertake measures against non-quarantine weeds
Failure to timely implement or violation of mandatory measures against non-quarantine weeds, pests and diseases of agricultural plants by land users for the first time, shall
entail imposition of a fine on the natural persons in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined, and imposition of a fine on the officials responsible for conducting plant protection measures in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Repeated commission of the violations provided for by part 1 of this Article within one year shall–
entail imposition of a fine on the natural persons in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials specified in part 1 of this Article — in the amount of thirty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 110 edited by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-173-N of 9 November 2006)
Article 110.1. Failure to undertake measures aimed at ensuring the control over crops containing narcotic drugs
(title amended by HO-242-N of 6 December 2017)
Failure to undertake measures to ensure the control over corps of hemp and oilseed, storage areas of those crops and the prescribed reprocessing regime, as well as failure to take measures to destroy the residues of harvested fields and production waste containing narcotic drugs shall –
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of thirty percent to the full amount of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 110.1 edited by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, amended by HO-242-N of 6 December 2017)
Article 110.2. Sowing or growing of plants containing narcotic drugs, psychotropic (psychoactive), drastic or toxic substances, the trafficking in which is prohibited
(title edited by HO-36-N of 30 April 2013, HO-242-N of 6 December 2017)
1. Sowing or growing of plants containing narcotic drugs, psychotropic (psychoactive), drastic or toxic substances in small amounts, the trafficking in which is prohibited shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold to ten-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Sowing or growing of plants containing narcotic drugs, psychotropic (psychoactive), drastic or toxic substances in significant amounts, the trafficking in which is prohibited shall
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold to thirty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. The list of plants containing narcotic drugs, psychotropic (psychoactive), drastic or toxic substances, trafficking in which is prohibited, the small and significant amounts thereof shall be established by the Government of the Republic of Armenia.
(Article 110.2 edited on 23 October 1987, by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-36-N of 30 April 2013, edited, amended by HO-242-N of 6 December 2017)
Article 110.3. Violation of the requirements for the use, propagation, import and certification of agricultural crop varieties and forms of planting material
1․ When recording the import into the territory of the Republic of Armenia, use in the territory and propagation of varieties and forms of planting material not registered in the list of varieties with permission for use, for the first time shall–
entail warning, and thereafter, within 18 months, in cases of failure to fulfil the requirement of recording the violation each time or of the assignment or order on eliminating the violation within the specified time period shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold to seven-fold, and on officials — in the amount of ten-fold to fifteen-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2․ Import of the batch of crop seeds and planting material without certificates of varieties and quality indicators issued by the competent organisation of the exporting country shall–
entail imposition of a fine on the natural persons in the amount of twenty-fold to twenty-five-fold, and on officials — in the amount of thirty-fold to thirty-five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. In case of failure to certify pre-basic, basic, reproduced seeds and initial, basic, certified, reproduced and conventional planting materials, shall
entail imposition of a fine on the natural persons in the amount of twenty-fold to twenty-five-fold, and on officials — in the amount of thirty-fold to thirty-five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4․ Violation of the compliance of indicators of varieties purity, race, type, variety and hybrid, as well as order or class belonging recorded in the quality documents of seeds and planting material with the certificate of the sold seeds and planting material shall–
entail imposition of a fine on the natural persons in the amount of sixty-fold to sixty-five-fold, and on officials — in the amount of seventy-fold to seventy-five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 110.3 supplemented by HO-346-N of 14 September 2022)
Article 110.4. Use of genetically modified organisms in the field of agriculture
1. The import, sale, disposal, use, keeping, transfer, experimentation, receipt or other way of using genetically modified organisms in the field of agriculture, except for scientific-research and experimental-demonstrative purposes by scientific-research organisations shall —
entail imposition of a fine on natural persons in the amount of seven-hundred-fold to one-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined, on officials — in the amount of one-thousand-fold to two-thousand-fold.
(Article 110.4 supplemented by HO-12-N of 17 January 2023)
Article 110.5 Use of genetically modified organisms in isolated system and for scientific-research, experimental-demonstrative purposes
1. Violation of the technical and methodical requirements of the isolated system for the use of genetically modified organisms or violation of the procedure for the import of genetically modified organisms for scientific-research, experimental-demonstrative purposes or violation of the procedure for ensuring the use and bio-safety of genetically modified organisms in the isolated system shall —
entail imposition of a fine on natural persons in the amount of one-hundred-fold to five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of seven-hundred-fold to one-thousand-fold.
2. Using genetically modified organisms for scientific-research, experimental-demonstrative purposes without a licence shall —
entail imposition of a fine on natural persons in the amount of seven-hundred-fold to one-thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-thousand-fold to two-thousand-fold.
(Article 110.5 supplemented by HO-12-N of 17 January 2023)
Article 110.6. Violation of the requirements for organic agricultural products in the stages of movement of goods
1. Violation of the requirements for storage or transportation or sales of organic agricultural products shall entail —
imposition of a fine on natural persons in the amount of fifty-fold to seventy-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on legal persons — in the amount of eighty-fold to one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Violation of the procedure for marking organic agricultural products shall entail —
imposition of a fine on natural persons in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred-and-twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on legal persons in the amount of one-hundred-and-thirty-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Payment of the fine shall not release natural and legal persons from the obligation to eliminate the violations committed.
(Article 110.6 supplemented by HO-181-N of 24 May 2023)
Article 111. Violation of the rules of technical exploitation of agricultural machines and safety equipment by users
(title amended by HO-204-N of 17 November 2017)
Violation by users of the rules of technical exploitation of tractors, combine harvesters, other self-propelled agricultural machines and the rules of safety equipment shall
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined or deprivation of the right to drive those machines for a period of up to one month.
(Article 111 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-174-N of 8 December 2004, HO-204-N of 17 November 2017)
Article 112. Violation of anti-epizootic and veterinary-sanitary rules, veterinary-sanitary and zoo hygienic standards
(title amended by HO-173-N of 9 November 2006)
Violation of anti-epizootic and veterinary-sanitary rules, veterinary-sanitary and zoo hygienic standards shall
entail imposition of a fine on the natural persons in the amount of fifty-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 112 amended by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-93-N of 4 May 2005, HO-173-N of 9 November 2006, HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 112.1. Failure to create necessary conditions for implementation of measures to fight diseases infectious for animals, animals and humans, violation of the requirements prescribed by regulatory legal acts regulating the field of veterinary, failure to issue reports provided for by legislation of the Republic of Armenia on implemented anti-epizootic measures, data on artificial insemination, record-registration, movement of the livestock, failure to provide documents confirming the organisational-legal status of the person or economic entity by natural or legal persons transporting, storing, selling food and raw material of animal origin, reprocessed feed or supplement feed to the inspector conducting supervision in the field of veterinary, failure to present the animals
(title amended by HO-173-N of 9 November 2006, HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Failure to create necessary conditions for implementation of measures to fight diseases infectious for animals, animals and humans, violation of the requirements prescribed by regulatory legal acts regulating the field of veterinary, failure to issue reports provided for by legislation of the Republic of Armenia on implemented anti-epizootic measures, data on artificial insemination, record-registration, movement of the livestock, failure to provide documents confirming the organisational-legal status of the person or economic entity by natural or legal persons transporting, storing, selling food and raw material of animal origin, reprocessed feed or supplement feed to the inspector conducting supervision in the field of veterinary, failure to present the animals shall–
entail imposition of a fine on the natural persons in the amount of fifty-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 112.1supplemented by HO-93-N of 4 May 2005, amended by HO-173-N of 9 November 2006, HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 112.2. Sale of food or raw materials of animal origin, reprocessed feed, supplement feed, fungi used in food, which have not been subjected to veterinary-sanitary expertise
(title amended by HO-173-N of 9 November 2006)
Sale of food or raw materials of animal origin, reprocessed feed, supplement feed, fungi used in food, which have not been subjected to veterinary-sanitary expertise shall–
entail imposition of a fine on the natural persons in the amount of fifty-fold to one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 112.2 supplemented by HO-93-N of 4 May 2005, amended by HO-173-N of 9 November 2006, HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 112.3. Production, processing of food and raw materials of animal origin, reprocessed feed, supplement feed, which have not undergone veterinary-sanitary expertise, production, sale of veterinary medicine having not acquired state registration, sale of veterinary medicine having acquired state registration without documents certifying the origin and acquisition thereof
(title amended by HO-173-N of 9 November 2006)
Production, reprocessing of food and raw materials of animal origin, reprocessed feed, supplement feed, which have not undergone veterinary-sanitary expertise, production, sale of veterinary medicine having not acquired state registration, sale of veterinary medicine having acquired state registration without documents certifying the origin and acquisition thereof shall
entail imposition of a fine on the natural persons in the amount of two-hundred-fold to four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 112.3 supplemented by HO-93-N of 4 May 2005, amended by HO-173-N of 09 November 2006, HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 112.4. Violation of decisions of territorial administration bodies on setting of quarantine to fight against animal epidemics
Violation of decisions of territorial administration bodies on setting of quarantine to fight against animal epidemics shall
entail imposition of a fine on the natural persons in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 112.4 supplemented by HO-93-N of 4 May 2005, amended by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 112.5. Violation of the veterinary rules when carrying out international transportations (import, export and transit) of animals, food and raw material of animal origin, other cargo subject to state veterinary control, as well as failure to subject them to veterinary-sanitary expertise
Violation of the veterinary rules when carrying out international transportations (import, export and transit) of animals, food and raw material of animal origin, other cargo subject to state veterinary control, as well as failure to subject them to veterinary and sanitary expertise shall–
entail imposition of a fine on the natural persons in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 112.5 supplemented by HO-93-N of 4 May 2005, HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 112.6. Transportation, receipt, storage and sale of goods (cargo) subject to state veterinary control without accompanying veterinary documents in the territory of the Republic
Transportation, receipt, storage and sale of goods (cargo) subject to state veterinary control without accompanying veterinary documents in the territory of the Republic shall–
entail imposition of a fine on the natural persons in the amount of one-hundred-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 112.6 supplemented by HO-93-N of 4 May 2005, edited by HO-173-N of 9 November 2006, amended by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 112.7. Incomplete organisation and implementation of anti-epizootic preventive and compulsory measures, veterinary service works, violation of the established time limits for implementation, refusal therefrom
Incomplete organisation and implementation of anti-epizootic preventive and compulsory measures provided for by law and other legal acts, veterinary service works, or refusal therefrom, by state administration or local self-government [bodies] or persons providing veterinary services, and violation of the established time limits for the implementation of anti-epizootic measures or refusal therefrom by those persons, who may cause the outbreak and spread of common infectious diseases for animals, animals and humans shall–
entail imposition of a fine on the natural persons in the amount of twenty-fold to one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-fold to three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
The payment of the fine shall not exempt natural persons and officials from the obligation to eliminate the violations committed.
(Article 112.7 supplemented by HO-93-N of 4 May 2005, edited by HO-173-N of 9 November 2006, amended by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 112.8. Reprocessing (processing), distribution, storage, preservation, transportation, use in public catering services, sales, sale, supply or import of products or raw materials of animal origin derived from animal slaughter outside slaughterhouses in violation of the requirements of the legislation
(title supplemented by HO-231-N of 22 May 2024)
1. Reprocessing (processing), distribution, storage, preservation, transportation, use in public catering services, sales, sale, supply or import products or raw materials of animal origin derived from animal slaughter outside slaughterhouses in violation of the requirements of legislation —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the natural persons in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 112.8 supplemented by HO-254-N of 8 December 2017, amended by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023, supplemented by HO-231-N of 22 May 2024)
Article 112.9. Violation of the requirements of animal exhibitions and/or competitions or activities with the participation of animals or the organisation of an animal market
1. Violation of the requirements of animal exhibitions and/or competitions or activities with the participation of animals or the organisation of an animal market shall–
entail imposition of a fine on natural persons in the amount of eighty-fold to one-hundred-fold, and on legal persons — in the amount of three-hundred-fold to four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Repeated commission of the act provided for by this Article within one year after imposition of measures of administrative penalty shall–
entail imposition of a fine twice the amount of the fine imposed for the previous case.
(Article 112.9 supplemented by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 112.10. Violation of the requirements for the protection and welfare of animals by owners of zoological parks, aquariums, terrariums, vivariums, animal shelters, zoo shops and other livestock farms, as well as organisers of exhibitions and/or competitions, activities with the participation of animals
1. Violation of the requirements for the protection and welfare of animals by owners of zoological parks, aquariums, terrariums, vivariums, animal shelters, zoo shops and other livestock farms, as well as organisers of exhibitions and/or competitions, activities with the participation of animals shall–
entail imposition of a fine on natural persons in the amount of fifty-fold to one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on legal persons — in the amount of three-hundred-fold to four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Repeated commission of the act provided for by this Article within one year after imposition of measures of administrative penalty shall–
entail imposition of a fine twice the amount of the fine imposed for the previous case.
(Article 112.10 supplemented by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 112.11. Violation of the requirements of animal stunning by a veterinary service carrying out veterinary activities
1. Violation of the requirements of animal stunning by a veterinary service carrying out veterinary activities shall–
entail imposition of a fine on the natural persons in the amount of fifty-fold, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Repeated commission of the act provided for by this Article within one year after imposition of measures of administrative pealty shall–
entail imposition of a fine twice the amount of the fine imposed for the previous case.
(Article 112.11 supplemented by HO-343-N of 25 October 2023)
Article 113. Violation of the rules of keeping pets in the territory of urban communities
(title edited by HO-247-N of 19 December 2012)
1. Violation of the rules of keeping pets in the territory of urban communities shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold to ten-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. The acts provided for by part 1 of this Article, as a result of which damage has been caused to the property of legal or natural persons, as well as to the health of natural persons shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold to fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 113 edited by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-247-N of 19 December 2012)
Article 114. Keeping animals in prohibited places
Keeping animals in prohibited places shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold to twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 114 amended on 4 June 1991, by HO-496-N of 11 December 2002)
CHAPTER 10
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFENCES IN THE FIELDS OF TRANSPORT, ROAD ECONOMY AND COMMUNICATION
Article 115. Violation of traffic rules and safety regulations in railway transport
1. Damaging railway lines, protective forest plantations, snow protection fences or linear objects shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Placing of objects on railway lines, or climbing on contact networks and/or air lines supports or special structures and/or artificial structures, or damaging, covering, removing, unauthorised deployment of signs, panels, other carriers of information, or driving over or crossing railway lines at undefined places, or damaging of railway signalling, communication structures or apparatuses, or travelling over wagon pedals or roofs shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of thirty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Getting under passenger platforms or railway rolling stocks or crossing over self-attaching devices between wagons, or jumping onto railway lines from passenger platforms shall–
entail warning or imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Crossing over railway passages during prohibiting signals of railway transition traffic lights or hindering of the traffic of railway rolling stocks shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 115 edited 10 March 1990, by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-24-N of 27 February 2012)
Article 116. Violation of the rules of using railway transport
1. Unauthorised travel on cargo trains or hindrance to the opening, closing of automated doors of passenger coaches, or hindering other people when getting on and/or getting off the wagon intentionally shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Damaging the internal equipment, windows or seats of metropolitan trains or railway rolling stock, as well as using the internal equipment unnecessarily shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifteen-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. (part deleted by HO-331-N of 22 May 2018)
4. Getting on and/or getting off the wagon by the passenger platform or from other places except for the ones specially separated or adjusted on railway stations shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined.
5. Unauthorised train stop, made without necessity (in case of absence of a threat to the train, passengers and the environment), by means of the handle designed for making emergency stops shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 116 edited on 10 March 1990, HO-105 of 14 June 1994, HO-79 of 2 September 1993, amended by HO-89-N of 7 April 2009, edited by HO-24-N of 27 February 2012, amended by HO-331-N of 22 May 2018)
Article 116.1. Publishing information on the regime of use of railway transport infrastructures of common use without coordinating with the authorised body or violating the procedure prescribed by legislation of the Republic of Armenia for coordinating that information with the authorised body, or publishing unreliable information
1. Publishing information on the regime of use of railway transport infrastructures of common use by the manager or owner of railway transport infrastructures of common use without coordinating with the authorised body or violation of the procedure prescribed by legislation of the Republic of Armenia for coordinating that information with the authorised body, or publishing unreliable information shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Repeated commission of the act provided for by this Article within one year after the date of imposition of an administrative penalty shall–
entail imposition of a fine twice in the amount of the fine prescribed for the given act by this Article.
(Article 116.1 supplemented by HO-24-N of 27 February 2012)
Article 116.2. Failure of the manager or owner of common use railway transport infrastructures, or users of railway transport of non-common use, to implement measures for prevention of causing harm to the lives or health of citizens while they are in most dangerous zones
1. By the manager or owner of the railway transport infrastructure of common use or by users of railway transport infrastructure of non-common use:
(1) failure to place the necessary information in the most dangerous zones through relevant light, sound signals, signs, indicators, technical means and/or other information carriers or failure to timely inform citizens in the most dangerous zones on relevant restrictions and/or their changes through technical means and/or other information carriers shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined,
(2) failure to maintain the platforms, pedestrian crossings, tunnels, bridges and other objects envisaged for citizens that are in most dangerous zones of railways of common use and railways of non-common use in a technically operable and safe condition, failure to mark and fence the places where re-construction, construction and repair works are carried out in the most dangerous zones shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Repeated commission of the acts provided for by this Article within one year after the date of imposition of an administrative penalty shall
entail imposition of a fine twice in the amount of the fine prescribed for the given act by this Article.
(Article 116.2 supplemented by HO-24-N of 27 February 2012)
Article 116.3. Violation of the requirements for railway lines of common use
1. Maintenance of railway lines of common use and objects of railway transportation in violation of the rules of technical operation of the railway and rules of traffic safety of railway transport shall–
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of two hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Intersection of railway lines of common use with railway lines of common use being constructed, new or reconstructed, or launch of railway lines of common use for permanent exploitation, or implementation of operation of railway stations for the purpose of implementation of all or some actions connected to arrival and departure of trains, cargo loading, unloading, sorting or storage (including in containers) shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of three hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Implementation of closing of railway lines of common use, as well as low-loaded lines and segments, as well as transition of railway lines of common use into railway lines of non-common use, or closing of railway stations for the purpose of terminating all or some actions connected to the arrival and departure of trains, receipt, delivery, loading, unloading, sorting or storage of luggage, cargo and freight without a relevant permission shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of four hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Design or construction of railway lines of common use in violation of the procedure prescribed by legislation of the Republic of Armenia shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
5. Failure to ensure the relevant technical condition of railway lines of common use, railway rolling stocks or containers, provided for by legislation of the Republic of Armenia, or failure to perform or improper performance of loading and unloading works of cargo coaches or containers through the procedure prescribed by legislation of the Republic of Armenia shall–
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
6. Repeated commission of the acts provided for by this Article within one year after the date of imposition of an administrative penalty shall–
entail imposition of a fine twice in the amount of the fine prescribed for the given act by this Article.
(Article 116.3 supplemented by HO-24-N of 27 February 2012)
Article 116.4. Violation of the main requirements for railway lines of non-common use intersecting railway lines of common use
1. Failure of users of railway lines of non-common use intersecting railway lines of common use to ensure the maintenance of those lines shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Construction and re-construction of equipment intended for railway lines of non-common use intersecting railway lines of common use, loading and unloading of cargo, wagons, cleaning and washing of containers, determination of the place of railway level-crossing of railway lines of non-common use intersecting railway lines of common use, or implementation of intersection of railway lines of common use with railway lines of non-common use being newly built or having been re-constructed without coordinating with the authorised body shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of three hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Failure of users of railway lines of non-common use intersecting railway lines of common use to comply with the requirements of railway transport exploitation or traffic safety, failure to maintain railway lines of non-common use crossing railway lines of common use, railway rolling stocks or containers in compliance with the technical condition provided for by legislation of the Republic of Armenia, failure to carry out loading and unloading works of cargo coaches and containers through the prescribed procedure shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Violation of the procedure for level-crossing of railway rolling stocks from railway lines of non-common use to railway lines of common use and vice versa, shall–
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of two hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
5. Repeated commission of the acts provided for by this Article within one year after the date of imposition of an administrative penalty shall–
entail imposition of a fine twice in the amount of the fine prescribed for the given act by this Article.
(Article 116.4 supplemented by HO-24-N of 27 February 2012)
Article 116.5. Violation of the rules of transportation of dangerous cargo by railway transport
1. Violation of the rules of transportation of dangerous cargo by means of railway transport shall–
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of two hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Repeated commission of the act provided for by this Article within one year after the date of imposition of an administrative penalty shall–
entail imposition of a fine twice in the amount of the fine prescribed for the given act by this Article.
(Article 116.5 supplemented by HO-24-N of 27 February 2012)
Article 116.6. Hindering the access of other railway rolling stock operators by the manager or owner of railway transport infrastructures of common use
Hindering the access of other railway rolling stock operators by the manager or owner railways transport infrastructures of common use shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 116.6 supplemented by HO-24-N of 27 February 2012)
Article 116.7. Violation of the obligations prescribed by legislation of the Republic of Armenia by organisers of the railway transport activity of common use
1. Failure to ensure the safety of exploitation or traffic of railway transport by the manager or owners of railway transport infrastructure of common use or transporters or freight forwarders or other participants of the process of transportation shall–
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of two hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Failure of the transporter to place necessary information on the services provided thereby and the charges thereof at a visible place for passengers shall–
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Repeated commission of the act provided for by this Article within one year after the date of imposition of an administrative penalty shall–
entail imposition of a fine twice in the amount of the fine prescribed for the given act by this Article.
(Article 116.7 supplemented by HO-24-N of 27 February 2012)
Article 116.8. Violation of the rules of technical exploitation of the railway or conditions for using railway transport infrastructures of common use
1. Violation of the rules of technical exploitation of the railway shall–
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of two hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Violation of the conditions for using the railway transport infrastructure of common use shall –
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Repeated commission of the acts provided for by this Article within one year after the date of imposition of an administrative penalty shall–
entail imposition of a fine twice in the amount of the fine prescribed for the given act by this Article.
(Article 116.8 supplemented by HO-24-N of 27 February 2012)
Article 116.9. Violation of the mandatory requirements or conditions of the license for organisation of railway transport activities
Violation of the mandatory requirements or conditions of the license for the organisation of railway transport activities, where they have not resulted in the liability prescribed by the Law of the Republic of Armenia "On licensing" shall–
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of two-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 116.9 supplemented by HO-24-N of 27 February 2012)
Article 116.10. Violation of the main requirements of railway transport exploitation or traffic safety
1. Positioning of objects implementing loading, transporting, unloading of dangerous cargo and the buildings, constructions and structures located thereon, or locating places of intersecting of connection lines of railway transport of common use, electricity wires, oil pipelines, gas pipelines or other aboveground or underground buildings on a shorter distance from railway lines of common use than prescribed by legislation of the Republic of Armenia shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Failure by the owners of communication lines, electric conductors, oil pipelines, gas pipelines and constructions crossing railway lines of common use and located in the immediate vicinity of those lines to observe the norms prescribed for construction and exploitation of the constructions mentioned and failure to ensure the safety of activities of the mentioned objects shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Failure of the manager of a railway transport infrastructure of common use, or users of non-common use railway lines or transporters, to participate in the elimination of consequences of transport accidents by means of using recovery and fire prevention measures available within the scope of the technical and technological capabilities thereof, shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of four hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Violation of the procedure for intersection of railway lines with automobile roads, rules of intersecting railway lines, conditions for exploitation of railway level-crossings and the procedure for launch or closing thereof shall–
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
5. Violation of other rules related to traffic safety on railway transport, technical exploitation of vehicles or the process of transportation shall
entail imposition of a fine on the officials in the amount of hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 116.10 supplemented by HO-24-N of 27 February 2012)
Article 117. Violation of flight and aviation safety rules
Installing any signs and structures similar to differentiating signs accepted for recognition of airport within airports or burning pyrotechnic objects without the permission of airport administration or constructing objects contributing to mass accumulation of birds, dangerous for aircraft flights shall–
entail imposition of a fine on citizens in the amount of twenty-fold to fifty-fold, and on officials — in the amount of one-hundred-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Failure to comply with the rules of installation of night-time or daytime distinguishing marks or structures on buildings or constructions shall–
entail imposition of a fine on citizens in the amount of twenty-fold to fifty-fold, and on officials — in the amount of hundred-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Damaging the airport equipment, airport signs, aircraft and the equipment thereof, which have not caused consequences provided for by the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Intersecting through or driving, without proper permission, within the territory of airport aerodromes (except for aircraft departure stations), facilities providing radio communication and lighting of flights shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold to hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Violation of the rules of supervision over checkpoint and internal objects shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Failure by the transporter to fulfil or improperly fulfilling the requirements prescribed by part 1.1 of Article 63 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On aviation” shall —
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of four-hundred-fold to six-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 117 edited by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, edited by HO-83-N of 22 February 2007, supplemented by HO-401-N of 26 October 2022)
Article 118. Violation of the rules for transporting dangerous substances and objects by air transport
Violation of the rules for transporting dangerous substances or objects by air transport shall–
entail imposition of a fine on the citizens in the amount of hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on officials — in the amount of thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 118 edited by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-83-N of 22 February 2007)
Article 119. Violation of the rules of conduct on the aircraft
Failure by persons on the aircraft to comply with the orders of aircraft commander shall––
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Violation of the rules for taking photos, filming and using means of radio communication from the aircraft shall–
entail warning, and in case of repetition — imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 119 edited by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-83 of 22 February 2007)
Article 120. Violation of the rules of registration, record-registration of small-sized ships and rules of making use thereof
(Article 120 edited by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, repealed by HO-237-N of 5 December 2006)
Article 121. Violation of the rules of flights
Violation of the rules of flights shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 121 edited by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-83-N of 22 February 2007)
Article 122. Violation of the fire safety rules on railway and air transport
Violation of the prescribed fire safety rules on railway transport shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold to one-hundred and fifty--fold of the minimum salary defined.
Violation of the prescribed fire safety rules on air transport shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-hundred-fold to two-hundred and fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 122 edited by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-146-N of 15 June 2006)
Article 123. Violation of the rules of exploitation of vehicles
(title edited by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012)
1. Driving vehicles with existence of malfunctions or conditions prohibiting the exploitation of vehicles shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Driving a vehicle re-equipped without relevant permission shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Violation by drivers, of the traffic rules for vehicles used to transport heavy goods or exceeding the dimensions prescribed by road traffic rules, or exploited within the composition of an articulated vehicle together with two or more trailers, shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold the minimum salary defined.
4. Driving vehicles in violation of the amount of light transparency of glasses prescribed by law or with a membrane front windshield, or curtained in violation of the procedure, shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
5. Repeated commission of the act provided for by part 4 of this Article within one year or any subsequent time shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-nine-fold of the minimum salary defined, application of penalty point — 2 points.
6. In case of detecting an offence provided for by part 1 of this Article, the authorised body (the official) shall inform the person having committed the offence on the possibility of not being subjected to administrative liability in case of eliminating the elements of the offence. A person shall not be subjected to administrative liability where, immediately after having been informed, he or she starts implementing actions aimed at the direct elimination of the elements of the administrative offence. In that case, the authorised body (official) shall not draw up a record of the administrative offence.
7. Where it is not possible to eliminate the elements of the offence immediately after the administrative offence has been detected in compliance with part 6 of this Article, the authorised body (the official) shall draw up a record on the administrative offence and render a decision on subjecting to administrative liability.
8. Where, in the case referred to in part 7 of this Article, the person having committed an administrative offence eliminates the elements of the offence within 24 hours after the authorised body (the official) detects the offence, he or she shall be released from the liability to pay the penalty imposed, where relevant evidence thereon has been submitted to the authorised body (the official) within the same time period. A relevant record shall be drawn up thereon, a carbon copy whereof shall be provided to the person having committed the offence.
(Article 123 edited on 2 July 1991, by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-102 of 3 December 1996, amended, supplemented by HO-26-N of 16 December 2005, edited by HO-73-N of 21 February 2007, amended by HO-175-N of 15 November 2010, supplemented by HO-65-N of 18 May 2010, edited by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012, supplemented, amended by HO-178-N of 21 December 2015, amended by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019, supplemented, edited by HO-97-N of 28 February 2024)
(Law HO-97-N of 28 February 2024 has a transitional provision)
Article 123.1. Violation of the rules of installing light and sound — including special — equipment on vehicles
1. Installing equipment for emitting light and sound signals not complying with the standard, on vehicles (except for anti-theft signalling systems and, in case of meetings or public events, loudspeakers), or using them in motion shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined, with confiscation of equipment for emitting light and sound signals not complying with the standard.
2. Installing red and/or blue flashing beacon lights or equipment for emitting special sound signals on vehicles, without relevant permission, as well as using (likening to) colour drawings intended for vehicles of operative services shall–
entail deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for a period of one year, and imposition of a fine on the person who does not have the right to drive vehicles in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, in all cases with the confiscation of flashing beacon lights and equipment for emitting special sound signals.
3. In case of detecting the offence provided for by part 1 of this Article, the authorised body (the official) shall inform the person having committed the offence on the possibility of not being subjected to administrative liability in case of eliminating the elements of the offence. A person shall not be subjected to liability where, immediately after having been informed, he or she starts implementing actions aimed at the direct elimination of the elements of the administrative offence. In that case, the authorised body (official) shall not draw up a record on the administrative offence.
4. Where it is not possible to eliminate the elements of the offence immediately after the administrative offence has been detected in compliance with part 3 of this Article, the authorised body (the official) shall draw up a record on the administrative offence and render a decision on subjecting to administrative liability.
5. Where, in the case referred to in part 4 of this Article, the person having committed an administrative offence eliminates the elements of the offence within 24 hours after the authorised body (the official) detects the offence, he or she shall be released from the liability to pay the penalty imposed, where relevant evidence thereon has been submitted to the authorised body (the official) within the same time period. A relevant record shall be drawn up thereon, a carbon copy whereof shall be provided to the person having committed the offence.
(Article 123.1 edited by HO-102 of 3 December 1996, HO-26-N of 16 December 2005, HO-73-N of 21 February 2007, amended by HO-73-N of 14 April 2011, edited by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012, supplemented by HO-178-N of 21 December 2015, amended by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019, edited by HO-27-N of 20 January 2021)
(Law HO-27-N of 20 January 2021 has a transitional provision)
Article 123.2. Selling flashing beacon lights or equipment for emitting special sound signals of vehicles without relevant permission
(Article repealed by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012)
Article 123.3. Driving vehicles with unfastened seat belts or unbuttoned helmets or without helmets, as well as transporting passengers with unfastened seat belts or unbuttoned helmets or without helmets
(title edited by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012)
1. In cases provided for by law, driving vehicles with unfastened seat belts or unbuttoned helmets or without helmets, as well as transporting passengers with unfastened seat belts or unbuttoned helmets or without helmets–
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined, application of penalty point — 1 point.
(Article 123.3 supplemented by HO-73-N of 21 February 2007, edited by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012, amended, supplemented by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019)
Article 123.4. Driving a vehicle not registered (re-registered) through the prescribed procedure, not having undergone technical inspection, failure to submit for registration the right of ownership over a vehicle having originated in another country, driving a vehicle that has not passed a technical inspection in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation or with any of the malfunctions or conditions prohibiting the exploitation of vehicles, as prescribed by the Government of the Republic of Armenia, that have been revealed by the technical inspection, or negligently failure to transfer or incomplete on-line transfer of all data on the vehicle having undergone a technical inspection and the results of the technical inspection
(title edited by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012, HO-59-N of 20 January 2021)
1. Driving a vehicle not registered (re-registered) as prescribed by law, as well as failure to submit for registration the right of ownership over a vehicle, having originated in another country, in case provided for by law, within the prescribed time limit after the vehicle has been imported into the Republic of Armenia, shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Driving a vehicle that has not passed a technical inspection in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation or with any of the malfunctions or conditions prohibiting the exploitation of vehicles, as prescribed by the Government of the Republic of Armenia, that have been revealed by the technical inspection shall–
entail imposition of a fine on the owner or possessor in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Recognising a vehicle as technically serviceable or with a technical malfunction, where it has not caused the liability prescribed by the Law of the Republic of Armenia "On licensing" shall–
entail imposition of a fine on the licensed person in the amount of thousand-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Failure by the licensed person to transmit all data and the results of the technical inspection regarding the vehicle that has passed technical inspection through negligence or incomplete transmission thereof on-line, where it has not caused liability prescribed by the Law of the Republic of Armenia "On licensing" shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 123.4 supplemented by HO-73-N of 21 February 2007, edited by HO-39-N of 8 April 2010, HO-2-N of 7 February 2012, supplemented by HO-178-N of 21 December 2015, edited by HO-59-N of 20 January 2021)
Article 123.5. Violation of the rules of using registration plates of vehicles
1. Driving vehicles with a registration plate that is illegible or does not comply with the standard shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined, application of penalty point — 0.5 point.
1.1. Closing at least one digit of the vehicle registration plate shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-five-fold of the minimum salary defined, application of penalty point — 2 points.
2. Failure to attach the registration plate of a vehicle on the place prescribed shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Driving a vehicle with temporary license plates after the expiration date thereof shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Driving a vehicle without a registration plate, with a falsified or replaced record-registration number plate shall–
entail deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for a period of one year, and imposition of a fine in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined on the person who does not have the right to drive vehicles.
4.1. (part repealed by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019)
4.2. (part repealed by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019)
5. Handing over the registration plate to another person by the possessor of the vehicle shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-five-fold of the minimum salary defined, application of penalty point — 3 points.
6. In cases specified by the traffic rules, driving vehicles without a copy of the numbers and letters of the registration plate on the back wall shall –
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
7. Failure to return the yellow registration plate after the expiry of the time limit for servicing a route providing passenger transportation shall–
entail imposition of a fine on the official of the organisation in the amount of twenty-nine-fold of the minimum salary defined.
8. Exploitation of vehicles with white registration plates on the route served by legal persons or individual entrepreneur carrying out regular passenger transportations (except for interstate transportations) in the territory of the Republic of Armenia shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
9. Carrying out passenger transportation by light passenger taxi motor vehicles in the Republic of Armenia without the transcript attached onto the prescribed place shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
10. Placing a yellow registration plate on another vehicle shall–
entail deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for a period of one year, and imposition of a fine in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined on the person who does not have the right to drive vehicles.
11. The registration plate, at least one mark thereof — when attached onto a vehicle in a static position — not visible from a distance of 40 metres at daytime, in clear weather, due to discolouration or other reasons, except for the cases of closing at least one digit, shall be an illegible record-registration number plate.
12. The registration plate of a vehicle shall be considered to be not attached onto the prescribed place, where the number plate is legible both during motion and when in a static position, but the registration plate (in case of double number plates - even one thereof) is not attached onto the place intended therefor.
13. A vehicle shall be considered to be without a number plate, where that number plate (in case of double number plates - both of them) is not attached onto the place intended therefor and is not legible both during motion and when in a static position.
13.1. In case a vehicle has double registration plates, it shall be considered to be with one number plate, where one of those number plates is not attached onto the place intended therefor and is not legible both during motion and when in a static position.
14. Carrying out passenger transportation by light passenger taxi motor vehicles in the territory of the Republic of Armenia without a transcript, or with a falsified, non-functional transcript or another transcript issued for other vehicle shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
15. Handing over the transcript by the owner or other legal possessor of the vehicle to another person shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
16. Driving a vehicle with double registration plates with a single registration plate shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and application of penalty point — two points.
17. Repeated commission of the act provided for by part 16 of this Article within one year after the imposition of an administrative penalty shall–
entail deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for a period of one year.
(Article 123.5 supplemented by HO-73-N of 21 February 2007, edited by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012, edited, supplemented by HO-173-N of 20 November 2014, amended, supplemented, edited by HO-178-N of 21 December 2015, amended by HO-18-N of 16 December 2016, amended, supplemented, edited by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019, amended, supplemented by HO-91-N of 13 February 2020, supplemented, edited by HO-27-N of 20 January 2021)
(amendment to Law HO-27-N of 20 January 2021 has been in effect until 1 July 2022, pursuant to part 4 of Article 10 of the same Law)
(Law HO-27-N of 20 January 2021 has a transitional provision)
Article 123.6. Driving quad bikes (all-terrain motor vehicles), snow or swamp-going vehicles or snowmobiles on public highways
(title amended by HO-279-N of 9 December 2019)
1. Driving quad bikes (all-terrain motor vehicles), snow or swamp-going vehicles or snowmobiles on public highways, except for cases of crossing the road vertically shall–
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. The administrative offence provided for by part 1 of this Article shall be of less significance in the case when no hindrance to or obvious danger of emergency has been created for the other participants of traffic as a result thereof, as well as in the case when the offence has inevitably been committed due to the action or inaction of another participant of traffic. In this case the person shall be considered to be warned, and the authorised body (official) shall not impose a measure of administrative liability.
(Article 123.6 supplemented by HO-175-N of 15 November 2010, HO-178-N of 21 December 2015, amended by HO-279-N of 9 December 2019, HO-300-N of 9 December 2019)
Article 123.7. Driving a vehicle, imported into the Republic of Armenia with an obligation for further export, in violation of import time limit
1. Driving a vehicle, imported into the Republic of Armenia with an obligation for further export, in violation of the import time limit shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold the minimum salary defined.
(Article 123.7 supplemented by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012)
Article 124. Violation of traffic rules by drivers of vehicles
(title edited by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012)
1. Failure of drivers of vehicles to comply with the requirements of road signs or road markings —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Failure to comply with the requirements of the markings separating opposing streams of traffic —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined, application of penalty point — 1 point.
3. Failure to give way to the participant of the traffic having advantage —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Failure to give way to a vehicle with red and/or blue flashing beacon lights turned on and simultaneously emitting special sound signals —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
5. Violation of the rules of crossing intersections by drivers of vehicles —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined, application of penalty point — 1 point.
6. Violation of the rules of crossing pedestrian crossings by drivers of vehicles —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined, application of penalty point — 1 point.
7. Violation of the rules of passing public vehicle stop points by drivers of vehicles —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of three-fold of the minimum salary defined.
8. Violation of the rules of overtaking by drivers of vehicles —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined, application of penalty point — 1 point.
9. Violation of the rules of starting traffic or making a manoeuvre, as well as of reverse driving, by drivers of vehicles —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined, application of penalty point — 1 point.
10. Violation of the rules of transportation of people by drivers of vehicles—
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
11. Use of radio communication and/or telephone communication in motion by drivers of vehicles (except for drivers of vehicles of operative services carrying out duty assignments) using even one hand—
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined, application of penalty point — 1 point.
12. Violation of the rules of using external light devices or sound signal by drivers of vehicles–
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of three-fold of the minimum salary defined.
13. Failure to switch the headlights of the vehicle from high-beam to low-beam in the cases provided for by road traffic rules or driving of a vehicle with high-beam headlights on in prohibited cases shall —
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
14. Driving of a vehicle in the direction opposite to the flow of vehicles (including reverse driving) on a one-way road shall —
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined, application of penalty point — 3 point.
15. Driving of a vehicle with the open doors, opening of doors of a vehicle in motion, or opening of doors of a vehicle in a static position, where it hinders the other participants of traffic shall —
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
16. Violation of the rules of towing vehicles by the driver of the towing vehicle shall —
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of three-fold of the minimum salary defined.
17. Crossing of a road dividing strip in places that are not provided therefor, by drivers of vehicles, by means of making a left turn or a U-turn shall —
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined, application of penalty point — 2 points.
18. Crossing into the oncoming traffic lane by drivers of vehicles, where it is not connected with overtaking in permitted places or surpassing a vehicle or a hindrance in a static position, and where it is impossible to surpass a vehicle or a hindrance in a static position without crossing into the oncoming traffic lane —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-five-fold of the minimum salary defined, application of penalty point — 3 points.
19. Violation of the rules of application of sound signal by drivers of vehicles —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
20. Violation of the rules of instructional driving by drivers of vehicles—
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
21. Violation of the rules of stopping and/or parking by drivers of vehicles—
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined, application of penalty point — 0.25 point.
22. Parking of vehicles, where drivers of other vehicles had to stop or change traffic direction as a result thereof —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined, application of penalty point — 0.5 point.
23. Violation of the rules of stopping and/or parking by drivers of vehicles, where the vehicle has been evacuated to a specially protected area as a result thereof or stopping of a vehicle not equipped with "Persons with disabilities" recognition sign in a place equipped with "Persons with disabilities" road sign (signboard) —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined, application of penalty point — 0.5 points.
24. Making a stop outside the territory of a stop point, as well as stopping within the territory of a public vehicle stop by drivers of vehicles carrying out regular passenger transportations—
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined.
25. Making a stop or parking within the territory of a public vehicle stop point, or parking not parallel to the edge of the carriageway (except for cases permitted by law) by drivers of vehicles (except for drivers of vehicles carrying out regular passenger transportations) —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
26. Stopping of a vehicle on a pedestrian crossing by drivers of vehicles —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifteen-fold of the minimum salary defined, application of penalty point — 1 point.
27. Parking on pavements or driving on pavements, except for cases permitted by road signs, as well as driving on underground or aboveground pedestrian crossings by drivers of vehicles —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
28. Driving on the left side lane where there are three or more lanes in the given direction, by drivers of vehicles providing regular passenger transportations or of trucks, except for the cases permitted by legislation —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
29. Violation of the rules of application of the emergency light signal or the "Emergency stop" recognition sign by drivers of vehicles —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
30. Violation of the rules of transportation of cargo by drivers of vehicles—
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
31. Intentional failure of the driver to fulfil the order of the police officer to stop the vehicle issued as prescribed by law —
shall entail deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for a term of one year and imposition of a fine on the person who does not have the right to drive vehicles, in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
32. (part repealed by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019)
33. Within this Code, vehicles carrying out regular passenger transportations shall be considered vehicles providing at the given moment regular passenger transportations in the prescribed manner.
34. Where the administrative offence provided for by parts 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 12, 13, 19, 21, 25 (only in terms of making a stop) or 30 of this Article is of less significance in accordance with this Article, the person shall be considered to be warned, and the authorised body (official) shall not impose a measure of administrative liability.
35. The administrative offence provided for by part 1 of this Article imposed for the failure to comply with the requirements of the marking "Solid line" shall be of less significance where the two front wheels of the vehicle have not fully crossed the marking, and no hindrance to or obvious danger of emergency has been created for the other participants of traffic as a result thereof, as well as in the case where the offence has inevitably been committed due to the action or inaction of another participant of traffic.
36. The administrative offence provided for by part 1 of this Article imposed for the failure to comply with the requirements of road signs shall be of less significance in the case where the offence has inevitably been committed due to the action or inaction of another participant of traffic.
37. The administrative offence imposed for the failure to comply with the requirements of the marking "Stop line" provided for by part 1 of this Article, as well as the administrative offence imposed for the failure to comply with the requirements of the markings separating opposing streams of traffic provided for by part 2 of this Article shall be of less significance in the case front or two side wheels of the vehicle have not fully crossed the marking and no hindrance to or obvious danger of emergency has been created for the other participants of traffic as a result thereof, as well as in the case where the offence has inevitably been committed due to the action or inaction of another participant of traffic.
38. The administrative offence provided for by parts 5, 7, 9, 12, 13, 19 or 30 of this Article shall be of less significance in the case where no hindrance to or obvious danger of emergency has been created for the other participants of traffic as a result thereof, as well as in the case where the offence has inevitably been committed due to the action or inaction of another participant of traffic.
39. The administrative offence provided for by parts 21 and 25 of this Article (only in terms of making a stop) shall be of less significance where the stop has been made only for the purpose of getting on/into or off of passengers, has not exceeded the period of one minute, and no hindrance to or obvious danger of emergency has been created for the other participants of traffic as a result thereof.
(Article 124 edited on 2 July 1991, by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-102 of 3 December 1996, HO-26-N of 16 December 2005, HO-73-N of 21 February 2007, HO-2-N of 7 February 2012, amended by HO-94-N of 19 June 2013, edited, amended, supplemented by HO-78-N of 21 June 2014, amended, supplemented by HO-178-N of 21 December 2015, amended by HO-331-N of 22 May 2018, supplemented, amended, edited by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019, supplemented by HՕ-27-N of 20 January 2021, amended by HO-97-N of 28 February 2024)
(Law HO-27-N of 20 January 2021 has a transitional provision)
(Law HO-97-N of 28 February 2024 has a transitional provision)
(Article as amended by Article 1 of Law HO-352-N of 2 October 2024 shall enter into force from the moment the relevant amendments to Decisions of the Government No 955-N of 28 June 2007, No 1699-N of 26 October 2006 and No 113-N of 10 January 2008 enter into force)
Article 124.1. Participation of drivers of vehicles in group movements creating a hindrance to road traffic
(title edited by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012)
1. Participation of drivers of vehicles in such a group movement which hinders road traffic or creates a threat to road traffic safety —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of three-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 124.1 amended on 2 July 1991, by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-102 of 3 December 1996, amended by HO-26-N of 16 December 2005, edited by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012)
Article 124.2. Violation of the procedure for placement of advertisements on vehicles
(title edited by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012)
1. Violation of the procedure for placement of advertisements on vehicles–
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 124.2 supplemented by HO-73-N of 21 February 2007, edited by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012, amended by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019)
Article 124.3. Failure of drivers of vehicles to obey the prohibiting signals of a traffic light or regulator
1. Failure by drivers of vehicles to obey the prohibiting signals of a traffic light or traffic regulator–
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-five-fold of the minimum salary defined, application of penalty point — 2 points.
2. (part repealed by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019)
(Article 124.3 supplemented by HO-73-N of 21 February 2007, edited by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012, amended by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019)
Article 124.4. Exceeding the prescribed speed by drivers of vehicles
1. Exceeding the prescribed traffic speed by 1-10 km/h —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of the minimum salary for each km/h exceeded.
2. Exceeding the prescribed traffic speed by 11-30 km/h —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined, application of penalty point — 2 points.
3. Exceeding the prescribed traffic speed by 31-50 km/h —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-five-fold of the minimum salary defined, application of penalty point — 3 points.
4. Exceeding the prescribed traffic speed by 51-80 km/h —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-nine-fold of the minimum salary, application of penalty point — 4 points.
5. Exceeding the prescribed traffic speed by 81 km/h and more —
shall entail deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for a term of one year and imposition of a fine on the person who does not have the right to drive vehicles, in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
6. When imposing an administrative penalty in cases concerning the administrative offences provided for by parts one to five of this Article, decision-making body (official) shall be obliged to subtract 10 km/h from the indicator recorded by the speed measuring device for a possible error of the speed measuring device.
(Article 124.4 supplemented by HO-73-N of 21 February 2007, edited by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012, HO-94-N of 19 June 2013, HO-78-N of 21 June 2014, edited, amended, supplemented by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019, supplemented by HO-27-N of 20 January 2021)
(Law HO-27-N of 20 January 2021 has a transitional provision)
Article 124.5. Gross violations of lawfulness in the field of road traffic safety by drivers of vehicles
(Article repealed by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012)
Article 124.6. Violation of the legislation for ensuring road traffic safety, which has resulted in emergency situation or road accidents, failure by drivers involved in accidents to comply with duties thereof
(title edited by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012)
1. Violation of the legislation for ensuring road traffic safety, which has resulted in emergency situation —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined, application of penalty point — 2 points.
2. Failure to comply with the requirements prescribed by the Law of the Republic of Armenia "On ensuring road traffic safety" or violation thereof, or violation of traffic rules, as a result of which a traffic accident caused minor damage to the health of a person —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-nine-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Failure by a driver involved in road traffic accident to comply with duties of a driver involved in road traffic accident prescribed by law —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. (part repealed by HO-279-N of 9 December 2019)
5. (part repealed by HO-279-N of 9 December 2019)
6. (part repealed by HO-279-N of 9 December 2019)
(Article 124.6 supplemented by HO-73-N of 21 February 2007, edited by HO-2-N of 7 December 2012, edited, amended by HO-279-N of 9 December 2019, supplemented, amended by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019, amended by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022)
Article 124.7. Failure to pay the local charge for paid parking lots in communities or parking without a registration plate or with at least one digit of the registration plate closed
(title amended, supplemented by HO-39-N of 20 January 2021)
Failure to pay the local charge for parking a motor vehicle or the trailer thereof in paid community parking lots prescribed by law or parking without a registration plate or with at least one digit of the registration plate closed —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 124.7 supplemented by HO-222-N of 23 June 2011, amended, supplemented by HO-39-N of 20 January 2021)
Article 125. Violation of traffic rules for vehicles at railway level-crossings by drivers
(title edited by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012)
1. Failure by drivers of vehicles to cross railway lines through railway level-crossings, give way to the train (locomotive, rail trolley) —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Failure to be guided by the instructions of an on-duty level-crossing guard when approaching a railway level-crossing, requirements of traffic lights, signs, markings —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Entering by the driver into the level-crossing in cases of a closed or closing barrier (irrespective of the signal of traffic lights), prohibiting signal of traffic lights (irrespective of the existence and position of a barrier), approaching of a train (locomotive, rail trolley) to the level-crossing within visual range, prohibiting signal of the level-crossing guard—
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Failure by the driver to immediately drop passengers off, take measures aimed at vacating the level-crossing, stay by the vehicle, give a general alarm signal in case of making a forced stop on the level-crossing, as well as to make a signal of stop (alarm) by running forward in case of appearance of a train —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined.
5. Bypassing vehicles standing before the level-crossing by coming out onto the wrong side of traffic, unauthorised opening the barrier, driving across the level-crossing on slow vehicles at a low speed of less than 8 km/h, and towing tractor towing harrows without a permission of the railway segment head —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
6. A common alarm signal is a combination of one long and three sound signals, and as a stop (alarm) signal, a circular movement of the hand shall be accepted (during the day with a brightly coloured rag or any well-visible object, at night with a torch or flashlight).
7. The position of the lane guard with the chest or back thereof towards the driver, a signpost, red lantern, or a flag raised above the head, or arms outstretched shall be considered a prohibitive signal.
(Article 125 edited on 2 July 1991, by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-102 of 3 December 1996, amended by HO-26-N of 16 December 2005, edited by HO-73-N of 21 February 2007, HO-2-N of 7 February 2012)
Article 125.1. Violation of the rules of operation of water vehicles
1. Driving a water vehicle in a state of intoxication or avoiding the test determining the state of sobriety —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of thirty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Exploitation of water vehicles not registered as prescribed by law or having a technical malfunction, or driving a water vehicle without side numbers —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Driving a water vehicle without a navigation licence or handing of driving of a water vehicle to a person not holding a navigation licence —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Exploitation of a water vehicle without the documents prescribed by legislation —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined.
5. Driving a water vehicle without rescue equipment or transporting passengers exceeding in number rescue equipment —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined.
6. Violation of fire safety rules on water vehicles —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
7. Driving water vehicles in places intended for swimming in recreation areas —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
8. Bringing or removing water vehicles to the shore in beach areas outside the zones separated by special signs of beach areas —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 125.1 supplemented by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012, HO-219-N of 26 May 2021)
Article 126. Driving vehicles in a state of intoxication
(title edited by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012)
1. Driving vehicles in a state of intoxication, where the driver is only under the influence of alcohol, and the misdemeanour does not bear the elements of parts two to five of this Article —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-nine-fold of the minimum salary, application of penalty point — 4 points.
1.1. Driving a public vehicle or light passenger-taxi motor vehicle under the influence of intoxicants, where the driver is only under the influence of alcohol, and the misdemeanour does not bear the elements of parts two to four of this Article —
shall entail deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for a term of six months.
2. Committing the act provided for by part one of this Article, where the content of pure alcohol per litre of blood of the driver exceeds 1 gram, or where the content of pure alcohol per litre of exhaled air thereof exceeds 0.5 milligram —
shall entail deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for a term of one year.
3. Committing the act provided for by part one of this Article, where the state of intoxication of the driver is conditioned by the content of narcotic drug or psychotropic (psychoactive) substance in the blood or urine —
shall entail deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for a term of two years.
4. Avoiding undergoing an examination for determining the state of sobriety in accordance with the procedure prescribed —
shall entail deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for a term of two years.
5. Recommission of the act provided for by part one of this Article within one year following the imposition of the administrative penalty —
shall entail deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for a term of one year.
6. (part repealed by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019)
7. (part repealed by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019)
8. (part repealed by HO-178-N of 21 December 2015)
9. In the case provided for by this Code, a person shall be considered to be in a state of intoxication, where it is revealed, as a result of testing, that the pure content of alcohol exceeds 0.2 grams per litre of blood or 0.1 grams per litre of exhaled air thereof, or where there is a content of narcotic drug or psychotropic (psychoactive) substance in the blood or urine of the person. A person shall be considered to be in a state of intoxication also in the case when the content of pure alcohol in his or her blood or exhaled air thereof or the content of narcotic drug or psychotropic (psychoactive) substance in his or her blood or urine is a result of use of alcoholic beverage, narcotic drug, or psychotropic (psychoactive) substance by that person after the vehicle is stopped by a police officer or after a traffic accident with which he or she has a relation, but before conducting a test of the state of sobriety or exempting him or her from being subjected to test of the state of sobriety.
10. Determining the state of sobriety of a driver by the content of pure alcohol in air exhaled may be carried out by technical means or by medical examination. The state of intoxication — on the basis of the content of pure alcohol in the blood of the person or content of the narcotic drug or psychotropic (psychoactive) substance in the blood or urine — shall be determined by the medical expert examination.
(Article 126 edited on 2 July 1991, by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-102 of 3 December 1996, HO-26-N of 16 December 2005, HO-73-N of 21 February 2007, HO-2-N of 7 February 2012, amended by HO-78-N of 21 June 2014, amended, edited by HO-178-N of 21 December 2015, supplemented by HO-242-N of 6 December 2017, amended, supplemented, edited by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019, edited by HՕ-27-N of 20 January 2021)
(Amendment to Law HO-27-N of 20 January 2021 has been in effect until 1 July 2022, pursuant to part 4 of Article 10 of the same Law)
(Law HO-27-N of 20 January 2021 has a transitional provision)
Article 127. Violation of road traffic rules by drivers of vehicles resulting in damage to vehicles or other property, as well as violation of other road traffic rules
(Article 127 edited on 2 July 1991, by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-102 of 3 December 1996, repealed by HO-26-N of 16 December 2005)
Article 128. Driving vehicles by a person not holding a driving permit for driving vehicles, driving vehicles without a driving licence or other documents or with an invalidated driving licence or other documents, driving vehicles with a driving licence of other countries by a citizen of the Republic of Armenia, or driving vehicles with a driving licence not effective in the Republic of Armenia by a foreigner, or handing driving of vehicles to a person not holding that right
(title edited by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012, amended by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019)
1. Driving vehicles by a person not holding a driving permit for driving vehicles —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. (part repealed by HO-178-N of 21 December 2015)
3. Driving vehicles without a driving licence or other documents —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of three-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Driving vehicles with an invalid driving licence or other invalidated documents, driving vehicles with a driving licence of other country by a citizen of the Republic of Armenia, as well as driving vehicles with a driving licence not effective in the Republic of Armenia (not complying with the requirements of UN Convention on Road Traffic of 1968) by a foreigner —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined.
5. Handing over a vehicle to a person who is under the age of sixteen, or who not holding a driving permit for driving vehicle of the given type, or who has been deprived of the driving permit for driving vehicles, or whose driving permit for driving vehicles has been suspended or to a person who obviously could not safely drive the vehicle due to his or her physical or mental condition in the given situation —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
6. Within this Article, other documents shall mean registration documents, customs documents of the vehicle, in cases specified in the driving licence — also a medical certificate, etc., which do not include a power of attorney, referral, cargo referral.
7. Within the meaning of this Code:
(1) a person shall be considered to be deprived of driving permit for driving vehicles, where he or she has been deprived of the driving permit for driving vehicles as prescribed by law, and the time limit for deprivation has not expired;
(2) a person shall be considered not holding a driving permit for driving vehicles where a driving licence with a driving permit for driving a vehicle of the given category has not been gained thereby in the manner prescribed, or a driving licence has been gained thereby in the manner prescribed, but he or she has been deprived of the right to drive vehicles as prescribed by law and has not regained a driving permit for driving vehicles after the expiry of the time limit for deprivation, except for cases of instructional driving;
(3) the driving permit for driving vehicles of a person shall be considered as suspended, where the driving permit for driving vehicles has been suspended as prescribed by law, and the time limit for suspension has not expired.
8. Within the meaning of this Code, a person shall be considered without a driving licence when holding a driving permit for driving vehicles, but does not have a driving licence therewith while driving.
9. In the cases provided for by part 3 of this Article, the authorised body (official) shall inform the person who has committed an administrative offence about the possibility of being released from administrative liability or the obligation to perform administrative penalty where the driving license or other document is presented to the authorised body (official) within 24 hours from the moment of detecting the offence. A person shall not be subjected to liability, and in the case an administrative penalty has been imposed, shall be released from the obligation of performing it, where the driving licence or another document is presented to the authorised body (official) within 24 hours after the moment the administrative offence has been detected.
(Article 128 edited on 2 July 1991, by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-102 of 3 December 1996, amended by HO-26-N of 16 December 2005, edited by HO-73-N of 21 February 2007, HO-2-N of 7 February 2012, amended, supplemented by HO-78-N of 21 June 2014, HO-178-N of 21 December 2015, amended by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019, edited by HՕ-155-N of 9 June 2022)
Article 129. Driving vehicles by a person deprived of the right to drive vehicles
(Article repealed by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012)
Article 129.1. Violation of the rules of using compulsory insurance coupon for liability arising from the use of a motor vehicle
(Article repealed by HO-94-N of 19 June 2013)
Article 129.2. Failure to have a valid contract on compulsory insurance against liability arising from the use of motor vehicles for vehicles record-registered in the territory of the Republic of Armenia, driving a vehicle without a contract on compulsory insurance against liability arising from the use of motor vehicles for the given vehicle, as well as permitting import of a vehicle not having a CMTPLI contract into the territory of the Republic of Armenia by means of driving
(title edited by HO-94-N of 19 June 2013, amended by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019)
Failure by the owner (lessee) of a vehicle record-registered in the territory of the Republic of Armenia, to have a valid contract on compulsory insurance against liability arising from the use of motor vehicles concluded for each vehicle belonging thereto by the ownership right (provided thereto under the financial lease (leasing) contract), which has lasted longer than ten days —
shall entail imposition of a fine for each ten days in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined, but for each year — not more than in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Driving a vehicle on public motorways in the territory of the Republic of Armenia without a valid contract on compulsory insurance against liability arising from the use of motor vehicles for the given vehicle —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Giving permission for the import of motor vehicles — without a CMTPLI contract — into the territory of the Republic of Armenia by driving, where having CMTPLI contract is a mandatory condition provided by the legislation for permitting import into the territory of the Republic of Armenia by driving the vehicle —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the relevant official in the amount of five-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Where, in the case referred to in part 2 of this Article, the person having committed an administrative offence eliminates the elements of the offence within 24 hours after the authorised body (the official) detects the offence, he or she shall be released from the obligation to pay 75 percent of the imposed fine.
(Article 129.2 supplemented by HO-65-N of 18 May 2010, edited by HO-94-N of 19 June 2013, HO-300-N of 9 December 2019, amended, supplemented by HO-285-N of 6 July 2022, edited by HO-18-N of 16 January 2024)
Article 129.3 Regular commission of violations of road traffic rules (legislation in the area of ensuring the road traffic safety) stipulating an administrative penalty in the form of penalty point
1. Periodic commission of violations of road traffic rules (legislation in the area of ensuring the road traffic safety), that is commission of the act provided for by part 1 of Article 123.3, parts 1, 1.1, 5 of Article 123.5, parts 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 14, 17, 18, 21-23, 26 of Article 124, part 1 of Article 124.3, parts 2-4 of Article 124.4, part 1 of Article 124.6, part 1 of Article 126, part 1 or 2 of Article 135.2 of this Code, where the sum of the penalty points for that offence and the penalty points applied to the driver in the given year is 9 or more points —
shall entail suspension of the right to drive vehicles for a term of six months.
2. Recommission of the act provided for by part 1 of this Article within one year following the expiration of the time limit for suspension of the right to drive vehicles —
shall entail deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for a term of one year.
(Article 129.3 supplemented by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019)
Article 130. Avoiding being subjected to examination for intoxication
(Article abolished on 10 March 1990)
Article 131. Violation of the road traffic rules by passengers, pedestrians, cyclists or other participants of road traffic
(title amended by HO-155-N of 9 June 2022)
1. Violation of the road traffic rules by passengers, pedestrians, cyclists or other participants (except for drivers of vehicles) of road traffic, as well as failure to obey regulatory signals of road traffic, violation of the requirements of road signs or road markings by passengers, pedestrians, cyclists or other participants (except for drivers of vehicles) —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of three-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Violation of the procedure for moving along road (including pavements or pedestrian paths, and in case of absence thereof, along roadsides) by pedestrians —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Violation of the procedure for crossing the carriageway by pedestrians —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Opening the doors of a vehicle while it is in motion or opening the doors of a vehicle in a static position, where it hinders the other participants of traffic by a passenger of the vehicle, as well as throwing items or objects out of the vehicle by passengers —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
5. Violation of the rules of driving mopeds, riding bicycles or animal-drawn vehicles —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
5.1. Riding a bicycle or a moped without an helmet or with an unfastened helmet by the person riding a bicycle or a moped that carries out delivery of goods —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of seven-fold of the minimum salary defined.
6. Committing the acts provided for by parts 1-5.1 of this Article, which has caused emergency –
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined.
6.1. Committing the acts provided for by parts 1-5.1 of this Article, where it has caused a minor damage to the health of a person —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
7. Violation of the rules of driving animals on roads —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 131 edited on 10 March 1990, by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-102 of 3 December 1996, HO-73-N of 21 February 2007, HO-2-N of 7 February 2012, edited by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019, amended, edited, supplemented by HՕ-155-N of 9 June 2022, supplemented, amended by HO-362-N of 2 October 2024)
Article 131.1. Violation of the requirements for traffic of personal mobility (transport) vehicles
1. Violation of the requirements (rules) for traffic of personal mobility (transport) vehicles, except for the cases provided for by parts 2-5 of this Article:
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Use of personal mobility (transport) vehicles without an helmet or with an unfastened helmet by persons carrying out delivery of goods —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of seven-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3.
4. Passenger or cargo transportation by a personal mobility (transport) vehicle —
shall entail imposition of a fine on natural persons in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined.
5. Transporting other personal mobility (transport) vehicle or vehicles by a personal mobility (transport) vehicle —
shall entail imposition of a fine on organisations (persons) in the amount of the twenty-nine-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on natural persons — in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 131.1 supplemented by HO-362-N of 2 October 2024)
(part 3 of the Article as amended by Law HO-362-N of 2 October 2024 shall enter into force on 1 September 2025)
Article 132. Permitting exploitation of vehicles having malfunctions and other violations of exploitation of vehicles
1. Permitting exploitation of vehicles that are not record-registered, have not undergone technical examination, have technical malfunctions, or vehicles that are re-equipped without a relevant permission, with large dimensions, heavy vehicles, in violation of rules of carriage of dangerous cargo or receptacles not rendered harmless, with registration plates that are illegible, do not comply with the standard, are self-made or not attached onto the prescribed place, as well as, in cases prescribed by legislation, not having a copy of the record-registration plate on the back wall of the vehicle, by heads of organisations or the persons responsible for the technical state and exploitation of vehicles —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Permitting exploitation of vehicles without a registration plate, with a false or substituted registration plate, or after the expiry of the period of use of the temporary number plate, by heads of organisations or the persons responsible for the technical state and exploitation of vehicles —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-nine-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Permitting drivers under the influence of intoxicants to drive vehicles by heads of organisations or persons responsible for the technical condition and exploitation of vehicles —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-nine-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Permitting persons who do not have driving permit for driving vehicles, or whose driving permit for driving vehicles has been suspended or having been deprived of such right to drive vehicles, as well as permitting to drive vehicles with an invalid driving license by heads of organisations or persons responsible for the technical condition and exploitation of vehicles —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-nine-fold of the minimum salary defined.
5. (part repealed by HՕ-300-N of 9 December 2019)
6. (part repealed by HՕ-300-N of 9 December 2019)
(Article 132 edited on 2 July 1991, by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-102 of 3 December 1996, amended by HO-26-N of 16 December 2005, edited by HO-73-N of 21 February 2007, HO-2-N of 7 February 2012, supplemented, amended by HO-78-N of 21 June 2014, amended, supplemented by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019)
Article 133. Permitting to drive vehicle to drivers under the influence of intoxicants or persons not holding a right to drive vehicles
(Article repealed by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012)
Article 134. Using state government vehicles, machinery or mechanisms for mercenary purposes. Keeping vehicles in places not specified for that
Unauthorised usage of vehicles, machinery, mechanisms belonging to state enterprises, institutions or organisations for mercenary purposes —
shall entail imposition of a fine on citizens in the amount of three-fold, on officials — in the amount of five-fold, and on drivers of vehicles — in the amount of three-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Keeping vehicles belonging to state enterprises, institutions or organisations outside the stops designated therefor after working hours —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the drivers in the amount of three-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on the officials responsible for keeping and using vehicles — in the amount of four-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 134 edited on 2 July 1991, by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-102 of 3 December 1996, amended by HO-26-N of 16 December 2005)
Article 134.1. Using service motor vehicles and other technical means by state servants for personal needs
Using a service motor vehicle and other technical means by state servants for personal needs —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 134.1 edited by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-102 of 3 December 1996, amended by HՕ-26-N of 16 December 2005)
Article 135. Violation of rules of carrying dangerous substances or objects on railway and motor transport and electric transport
Violation of the rules of carrying dangerous substances or objects in a hand parcel on railway transport —
shall entail warning or imposition of a fine in the amount of up to ten-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Violation of the rules of carrying dangerous substances or objects by a trolleybus, tram, bus, route taxi, metro, as well as carrying such baggage by motor transport or handing in to a safe deposit box —
shall entail warning or imposition of a fine in the amount of up to ten-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 135 edited on10 March 1990, by HO-79 of 2 September 1993, HO-105 of 14 June 1994, amended by HՕ-24-N of 27 February 2012)
Article 135.1 Using tobacco products or substitutes for tobacco products in public transport: air, water, electric and railway transport —
(title edited by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012, HO-96-N of 13 February 2020)
1. Using tobacco products or substitutes for tobacco products in public transport: air, ground electric transport, metro, water and railway transport, except for special areas separated in water and railway transport, airports, except for special areas separated therein —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the natural person in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 135.1 supplemented by HO-89-N of 7 April 2009, edited, amended by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012, edited by HՕ-96-N of 13 February 2020)
Article 135.2. Using tobacco products or substitutes for tobacco products in vehicles
(title edited by HO-96-N of 13 February 2020)
1. Using by the driver tobacco products or substitutes for tobacco products in а vehicle (except for vehicles provided for by part 2 of this Article) while it is in motion —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of seven-fold of the minimum salary defined, and application of penalty point — 0.5 point.
2. Using tobacco products or substitutes for tobacco products in public vehicles or light passenger-taxi motor vehicles —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on the driver of the given vehicle — also application of penalty point —1 point.
(Article 135.2 supplemented by HO-2-N of 7 February 2012, amended by HO-78-N of 21 June 2014, amended, supplemented by HO-300-N of 9 December 2019, edited by HO-96-N of 13 February 2020, HO-27-N of 20 January 2021)
(Law HO-27-N of 20 January 2021 has a transitional provision)
Article 136. Carrying hand parcels and free-of-charge luggage heavier than the prescribed norms
Carrying by railway transport a hand parcel heavier than the prescribed norms —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of five-fold of the minimum salary defined.
The payment of the fine shall not exempt the passenger from paying the cost of carriage of hand luggage exceeding the prescribed norms and of luggage carried free of charge.
(Article 136 edited on 10 March 1990, by HO-79-N of 2 September 1993, amended by HO-24-N of 27 February 2012, HO-18-N of 16 December 2016)
Article 136.1. Carrying by air transport the luggage of persons not related to the flight
Carrying by air transport the luggage of persons not related to the flight —
shall entail imposition of a fine on citizens in the amount of one hundred-fold, and on officials — in the amount of two hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 136.1 supplemented by HO-83-N of 22 February 2007)
Article 137. Travelling without a ticket
Travelling without a ticket by railway transport of general use —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Transporting children from five to ten years old without a ticket —
shall entail imposition of a fine;
by suburban trains — in the amount of three percent of the minimum salary defined;
by local and long-distance trains — in the amount of five percent of the minimum salary defined.
Flight of passengers without tickets —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
Travelling of passengers by trolley-buses, buses carrying out regular intra-community passenger transportation (minibuses), metro without a ticket —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the ticket value of the given route.
Payment of the fine shall not exempt the passenger from paying the cost of the trip and flight.
(Article 137 edited on 10 March 1990, by HO-79-N of 2 September 1993, HO-83-N of 22 February 2007, HO-24-N of 27 February 2012, amended by HO-18-N of 16 December 2016, HO-107-N of 8 February 2018)
Article 137.1. Failure to fulfil the main requirements of carrying out regular interstate passenger transportation by motor transport
(title edited by HO-18-N of 16 December 2016)
1. Implementing regular interstate passenger transportation without an international treaty regulating the sphere of transport, signed between the Republic of Armenia and the state being the other party of transporting, and without the documents prescribed by the legislation of the Republic of Armenia—
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of four-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Carrying out cabotage transporting in the territory of the Republic of Armenia by a vehicle record-registered in another country (except for the cases prescribed by international agreements) or in violation of the requirements prescribed by international agreements —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of four-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Carrying out regular interstate passenger transportation by vehicles not furnished with digital tachographs in the Republic of Armenia —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Carrying out regular interstate passenger transportation in the Republic of Armenia without a digital tachograph card or with an expired digital tachograph card or with the digital tachograph card not inserted in the tachograph or with a malfunction of the digital tachograph or with the digital tachograph turned off–
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
5․ Failure to provide the necessary information on the data recorded by the digital tachographs of vehicles to the inspection body exercising control in the sphere of transport by the organisation or individual entrepreneur carrying regular interstate passenger transportation or violation of the requirements prescribed by the legislation on driving the motor vehicle and rest periods by the crew of the motor vehicle carrying out interstate transportation or falsifying the data recorded on the card of the driver recorded by the digital tachograph or violation of the requirements for the operation of the digital tachograph —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
6. Carrying out verification measurements in the Republic of Armenia, without the digital tachograph of the workshop card—
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
7. Administrative liability for the violations prescribed by this Article shall be applied to the organisation, individual entrepreneur or natural person having committed the violation.
8. Recommission of the acts provided for by this Article within one year following the imposition of the administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the fine prescribed for the given act by this Article.
9. In case of committing the acts provided for by part 4 of this Article, a person shall be released from administrative liability for the loss or theft of a digital tachograph card or its damage or its invalidity, where he or she submits a substantiated application to the authorised body, in accordance with the requirements of the European Agreement concerning the Work of Crews of Vehicles Engaged in International Road Transport.
(Article 137.1 supplemented by HO-237-N of 5 December 2006, edited by HO-18-N of 16 December 2016, HO-421-N of 16 September 2020, edited, amended by HO-316-N of 30 July 2021)
Article 137.2. Failure to comply with the requirements for transportation by those carrying out motor transport activities in the territory of the Republic of Armenia
1. Exploitation of vehicles servicing regular passenger transportation by bus without a panel showing the route, and/or a route schedule, and/or a route scheme (except for inter-urban routes), and/or a panel indicating the name and location of the servicing organisation, and/or having exterior and interior furnishing not complying with the standards —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of thirty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Carrying out regular passenger transportation without a waybill or the route sheet attached thereto or without relevant notes therein—
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of twenty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Carrying out regular passenger transportation by organisations or an individual entrepreneur or natural persons having failed to be chosen through a bid for regular passenger transportation by motor vehicles in the territory of the Republic of Armenia —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Violations of departure hours of buses (minibuses) having fixed schedules, by those carrying out regular passenger transportation —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of thirty-fold, and in intra-community routes — in the amount of ten-fold of the minimum salary.
5. Unauthorised deviations from the route or end point (start point) by those carrying out regular passenger transportation —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
6. Carrying out sale of passenger tickets of inter-urban and interstate routes by an organisation not carrying out motor vehicle station activities or not having a contract with an organisation carrying out motor vehicle station activities —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of three-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
7. Carrying out cabbing without a licence for organising passenger transportation by passenger-taxi motor vehicles —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
7.1. Providing a taxi service from an airport taxi stand without an airport taxi service license —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
8. Transportation of children in violation of the requirements of the law of the Republic of Armenia —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
9. Administrative liability for the violations prescribed by this Article shall be applied to the organisation, individual entrepreneur or natural person having committed the violation.
(Article 137.2 supplemented by HO-237-N of 5 December 2006, HO-164-N of 20 November 2014, amended, edited, supplemented by HO-173-N of 20 November 2014, edited by HO-18-N of 16 December 2016, amended by HO-107-N of 8 February 2018, HO-32-N of 9 February 2022, supplemented by HՕ-9-N of 18 January 2022)
Article 137.3. Travelling of non-permitted persons by trailers (locomotives)
Travelling of non-permitted persons by trailers (locomotives), stopping the train at places not foreseen by the schedule (including on the demand of passengers) —
shall entail imposition of a fine on officials in the amount of thirty-fold to forty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 137.3 supplemented by HՕ-237-N of 5 December 2006)
Article 137.4. Violation of the requirements of the legislation for posting advertisements on state motor roads of common use
1. Placement of an advertising panel on state motor roads of common use without the permission of the disposers thereof —
shall entail a warning.
Recommission of the act provided for by this part after a warning within one year —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the part of interstate roads in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on the part of republican and marz motor roads — in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Violation of the requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Armenia on advertising (placing advertising panels) on state motor roads of common use, except for parts 1 and 3 of this Article —
shall entail a warning.
Recommission of the act provided for by this part after a warning within one year —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the part of interstate roads in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined, and on the part of republican and marz motor roads — in the amount of eighty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Failure to follow the requirements for the maintenance or safe exploitation of advertising panels placed on state motor roads of common use —
shall entail imposition of a fine on interstate highways in the amount of eighty-fold to the minimum salary defined, and on republican and marz highways in the amount of fifty-fold to the minimum salary defined.
4. Recommission of the acts provided for by this Article within one year following the imposition of the administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the fine prescribed for the given act by this Article.
(Article 137.4 supplemented by HO-237-N of 5 December 2006, edited by HՕ-142-N of 1 March 2018)
Article 137.5. Violation of the procedure for the use of the layer of alienation of the railway
1. Building or installation of buildings and constructions, or installation of perennial plantations (artificial trees) within the limits of the layer of alienation of the railway —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Accumulation of dead trees, bushes or twigs of dead trees lying on the ground, kindling, cut remains or other flammable substances in places adjacent to the forest masses within the limits of the layer of alienation of the railway —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Accumulation of weedy or wood-bushy vegetation in places adjacent to the agricultural lands within the limits of the layer of alienation of the railway —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of thirty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Violation of the procedure prescribed by the legislation of the Republic of Armenia for the installation of communication channels —
shall entail imposition of a fine on the manager or owner of railway transport of general use in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 137.5 supplemented by HՕ-8-N of 5 February 2013)
Article 137.6. Violation of the procedure for using the defence zone of the railway
1. Construction of buildings and structures or temporary roads within the limits of the defence zone of the railway in violation of the norms established by the Government of the Republic of Armenia—
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Cutting tree-shrubbery vegetation or removing sod coverage within the limits of the defence zone of the railway —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of thirty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Within the limits of the defence zone of the railway, carrying out such works, as a result of which there can be unfavourable changes in the hydrological regime of the lands of defence zones or infringement of the stability of elements of the relief (landslides, landfalls of slopes, small canyons, ponds or swamping of lands)—
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of seventy-fold of the minimum salary defined .
4. Failure to place signs indicating the limits of the of defence zones of the railway and the restrictions applied —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 137.6 supplemented by HՕ-8-N of 5 February 2013)
Article 137.7. Failure to fulfil the main requirements of carrying out non-regular passenger transportation by motor transport
1. Carrying out non-regular interstate passenger transportation without a passenger name list or transportation of more than the specified group is or other passengers (except for not more than one passenger for every 10 passengers) —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of four-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Carrying out non-regular interstate passenger transportation from a state that does not have international agreements regulating the sphere of transport with the Republic of Armenia into the Republic of Armenia and in the opposite direction by vehicles record-registered in other states without a waybill or in the absence of appropriate notes on the waybill —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3. Carrying out non-regular interstate passenger transportation in violation of the requirements prescribed by the legislation of the Republic of Armenia shall entail imposition of a fine:
In case of bus transportation from the Republic of Armenia to Georgia and/or in the opposite direction —in the amount of one-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined;
In case of bus transportation from the Republic of Armenia to other states and/or in the opposite direction —in the amount of four-hundred-and-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined;
In case of minibus transportation from the Republic of Armenia to Georgia and/or in the opposite direction —in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined;
In case of minibus transportation from the Republic of Armenia to other states and/or in the opposite direction —in the amount of one-hundred-fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined;
In case of non-regular interstate bus transportation from a state that does not have international agreements regulating the sphere of transport with the Republic of Armenia into the Republic of Armenia and/or in the opposite direction by vehicles record-registered in other states —
in the amount of four-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined;
in case of minibus transportations — in the amount of two-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Carrying out non-regular interstate passenger transportations by buses or minibuses not furnished with digital tachographs in the Republic of Armenia —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
5. Carrying out non-regular interstate passenger transportations in the Republic of Armenia without a digital tachograph card or with an expired digital tachograph card or with the digital tachograph card not inserted in the tachograph or with a malfunction of the digital tachograph or with the digital tachograph turned off –
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
6․ Failure to provide the necessary information on the data recorded by the digital tachographs of vehicles to the inspection body exercising control in the sphere of transport by the organisation or individual entrepreneur carrying out non-regular interstate passenger transportations or violation of the requirements prescribed by the legislation on driving the motor vehicle and rest periods by the crew of the motor vehicle carrying out interstate transportation or falsifying the data recorded on the card of the driver recorded by the digital tachograph or violation of the requirements for the operation of the digital tachograph —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
7. Carrying out verification measurements in the Republic of Armenia, without the digital tachograph of the workshop card—
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
8. Administrative liability for the violations prescribed by this Article shall be applied to the organisation, individual entrepreneur or natural person having committed the violation.
9. Recommission of the acts provided for by this Article within one year following the imposition of the administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the fine prescribed for the given act by this Article.
10. In case of committing the acts provided for by part 5 of this Article, a person shall be released from administrative liability for the loss or theft of a digital tachograph card or its damage or its invalidity, where he or she submits a substantiated application to the authorised body, in accordance with the requirements of the European Agreement concerning the Work of Crews of Vehicles Engaged in International Road Transport.
(Article 137.7 supplemented by HO-18-N of 16 December 2016, edited by HO-421-N of 16 September 2020, edited, amended by HՕ-316-N of 30 July 2021)
Article 137.8. Violation of the requirements of organisation of cargo transportation by motor transport
1. Carrying out interstate cargo transportations by vehicles not furnished with digital tachographs in the Republic of Armenia —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
2. Carrying out interstate cargo transportations in the Republic of Armenia without a digital tachograph card or with an expired digital tachograph card or with the digital tachograph card not inserted in the tachograph or with a malfunction of the digital tachograph or with the digital tachograph turned off —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
3․ Failure to provide the necessary information on the data recorded by the digital tachographs of vehicles to the inspection body exercising control in the sphere of transport by the organisation or individual entrepreneur carrying out interstate cargo transportations or violation of the requirements prescribed by the legislation on driving the motor vehicle and rest periods by the crew of the motor vehicle carrying out interstate transportation or falsifying the data recorded on the card of the driver recorded by the digital tachograph or violation of the requirements for the operation of the digital tachograph —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
4. Carrying out verification measurements in the Republic of Armenia, without the digital tachograph of the workshop card—
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of one-hundred-fold of the minimum salary defined.
5. Administrative liability for the violations prescribed by this Article shall be applied to the organisation, individual entrepreneur or natural person having committed the violation.
6. Recommission of the acts provided for by this Article within one year following the imposition of the administrative penalty —
shall entail imposition of a fine in the amount of two-fold of the fine prescribed for the given act by this Article.
7. In case of committing the acts provided for by part 2 of this Article, a person shall be released from administrative liability for the loss or theft of a digital tachograph card or its damage or its invalidity, where he or she submits a substantiated application to the authorised body, in accordance with the requirements of the European Agreement concerning the Work of Crews of Vehicles Engaged in International Road Transport.
8. Carrying out dangerous cargo transportation within the territory of the Republic of Armenia without the documents prescribed by the Law "On transportation of dangerous goods and receptacles not rendered harmless" shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of thirty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
9․ Transporting particularly dangerous goods without accompanying personnel shall–
entail imposition of a fine on the carrier in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
10․ Absence of a safety specialist in the organisation transporting dangerous goods shall–
entail imposition of a fine on the carrier in the amount of thirty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
11․ Failure to submit the information regarding the transportation manager stipulated by the Quality Charter, including its change and the financial condition of the organisation, to the authorised body by the organisation performing interstate cargo transportations within the specified time period shall–
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
12․ Violation of the requirements prescribed for the transportation manager provided for by the Quality Charter of the International Road Freight by organisations performing interstate freight transportation (except for non-commercial transportations) to the member states of the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) with trucks exceeding the maximum permissible weight of 3.5 tons shall
entail imposition of a fine in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
13․ Violation of the requirements prescribed by the legislation of the Republic of Armenia related to transportation activities shall–
entail imposition of a fine on the organisation in the amount of one-hundred-fold, and on the transportation manager — in the amount of fifty-fold of the minimum salary defined.
(Article 137.8 supplemented by HO-18-N of 16 December 2016, edited by HO-421-N of 16 September 2020, edited, amended by HՕ-316-N of 30 July 2021, supplemented by HO-347-N of 25 October 2023, HO-298-N of 3 October 2023)
Article 138. Violation of the rules of ensuring damage safety of cargo in railway and motor vehicles