Article 12. Rights of officials exercising state sanitary supervision

Officials exercising state sanitary supervision shall, within their powers, be entitled to:

a) require state bodies and other bodies, legal entities and individuals to eliminate violations of sanitary rules, norms and hygiene standards, issuing instructions to eliminate such violations;

b) exercise supervision over compliance with sanitary rules, norms and hygiene standards in projects for construction and reconstruction of facilities;

c) in the prescribed manner, submit to state bodies and other bodies, legal entities and individuals:

opinions on master plans for settlements and construction, and on siting of facilities, as well as on projects for construction and reconstruction of enterprises, buildings and structures;

conclusions on allocation of land plots for construction; determining places for household and domestic water use and conditions for discharge of treated wastewater; disposal and burial of toxic, chemical, radioactive and other substances;

conclusions on compliance of structures, residential premises, medical-preventive, educational, cultural and sports institutions and other institutions, production buildings and sanitary-domestic buildings, as well as equipment and vehicles, with sanitary rules, norms and hygiene standards;

opinions on proposals submitted regarding the model schedule of educational load and classes for students at educational institutions;

d) in order to monitor compliance with sanitary rules, norms and hygiene standards, enter, in the manner prescribed by legislation, the facilities of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs;

e) require from employers:

removal from work, taking into account the specific features of production and the nature of the work performed, of persons who systematically fail to comply with sanitary rules, norms and hygiene standards and the anti-epidemic regime and who pose a risk of spread of infectious and parasitic diseases;

the conduct of sanitary-hygienic and anti-epidemic measures;

f) take food products, items and materials for sanitary-hygienic examination and laboratory testing, and conduct on-site inspections using necessary laboratory equipment and instruments;

g) involve, in the prescribed manner, specialists of ministries and agencies and representatives of the public in the implementation of state sanitary supervision.