How will smokers on high speed rail be punished from May 1?

Since May 1, 2018, the penalty for smoking on high-speed rail is not to buy a ticket for 180 days, the details are as follows:

Opinions on Appropriately Restricting Certain Seriously Untrustworthy Persons from Taking Trains for a Set Period of Time to Promote the Establishment of the Social Credit System

The person responsible for conduct that seriously affects the safety of railway operation and production has been punished by the public security organ or identified by the railway station and train unit.

1.disrupting the order of railway station and train transportation, endangering railway safety, and causing serious adverse social impacts;

2.Smoking on EMU trains or smoking in non-smoking areas of other trains;

3.Investigating and dealing with reselling tickets, making and selling counterfeit tickets;

4.Fraudulently using preferential (pending) identity documents, or using forged or invalid preferential (pending) identity documents to purchase tickets and take the train;

5.Holding forged, expired or other invalid tickets or fraudulently using lost and remedial tickets to take the train;

6.Those who take the train without a ticket, take the train beyond the station (seat) and refuse to make up the ticket;

7.Administrative punishments should be given on the basis of relevant laws and regulations.

If the person responsible for the act has an act that seriously affects the safety of railway operation and production safety, the railway transport enterprises shall restrict their purchase of tickets, which shall be valid for 180 days, calculated from the date of the expiration of the publication period and no valid objection, and shall be automatically removed at the expiration of 180 days, and the railway transport enterprises shall resume selling tickets to them.

Notice! Smoking on high-speed trains will be banned for 180 days from May 1st!

Legal analysis: According to relevant laws and regulations, smoking on high-speed rail will be punished with administrative fines ranging from 500 yuan to 2,000 yuan or will be included in the punishment list and banned from taking the train for 180 days. If smoking causes serious consequences such as train fires, the smoker will be investigated for criminal liability in accordance with the law.

Legal basis: Regulations on the Administration of Railway Safety

Article 77 The following acts endangering railway safety are prohibited: (1) illegally intercepting trains or blocking railway transportation; (2) Disrupting the normal order of railway transport command and dispatch institutions, as well as stations and trains; (3) Placing or abandoning obstacles on railway lines; (4) striking the train; (5) Moving rolling stock on railway lines without authorization, or opening train doors without authorization, or manipulating train emergency braking equipment in violation of regulations; (6) Dismantling, destroying, or moving railway facilities and equipment, rolling stock accessories, markposts, protective facilities, and safety signs without authorization; (7) Walking, sitting or lying on a railway line, or passing on a railway line without a crossing or pedestrian aisle; (8) Entering the closed area of the railway line without authorization or passing through the railway bridge or tunnel without pedestrian passages; (9) Opening or closing the wagon valves and covers of the train without authorization or destroying the sealing state; (10) Opening the container door in the train without authorization, destroying the box, valve, cover or sealing state; (11) Loosening, dismantling, or moving the goods in the train without authorization to load reinforcement materials, devices, and equipment; (12) Drilling, pickpocketing, and jumping; (13) Throwing debris from the train; (14) Smoking on EMU trains or in non-smoking areas of other trains; (15) forcibly boarding a train or forcibly occupying a train by refusing to get off the train; (16) Impacting, blocking, or occupying passages in and out of the station or waiting areas or platforms.

Article 95: Where the provisions of articles 51, 52, 53, or 77 of these Regulations are violated, the public security organs are to order corrections, and give units a fine of between 10,000 and 50,000 RMB, and individuals between 500 and 2,000 RMB.

The penalties for smoking on high-speed rail are as follows:

1. High-speed rail smoking will be punished with an administrative fine ranging from 500 yuan to 2,000 yuan, or will be banned from taking the train for 180 days. If smoking causes serious consequences such as train fires, the smoker will be investigated for criminal liability in accordance with the law.

2. According to the latest regulations, smoking on EMU trains or smoking in non-smoking areas of other trains will be included in the punishment list and restricted from taking the train if they are punished by the public security organs, or confirmed by the on-site evidence collection of the railway station and train unit.

disrupting the order of railway station and train transportation, endangering railway safety, and causing serious adverse social impacts; Smoking on EMU trains or smoking in non-smoking areas of other trains; Persons responsible for the above-mentioned acts are restricted from taking trains. If the person responsible for the act has an act that seriously affects the safety of railway operation and production safety, the railway transport enterprises shall restrict their purchase of tickets, which shall be valid for 180 days, calculated from the date of the expiration of the publication period and no valid objection, and shall be automatically removed at the expiration of 180 days, and the railway transport enterprises shall resume selling tickets to them.

Article 77 of the Regulations on the Administration of Railway Safety prohibits the following acts that endanger railway safety:

1) Illegally intercepting trains or blocking railway transportation;

(2) Disrupting the normal order of railway transport command and dispatch institutions, as well as stations and trains;

(3) Placing or abandoning obstacles on railway lines;

(4) striking the train;

(5) Moving rolling stock on railway lines without authorization, or opening train doors without authorization, or manipulating train emergency braking equipment in violation of regulations;

(6) Dismantling, destroying, or moving railway facilities and equipment, rolling stock accessories, markposts, protective facilities, and safety signs without authorization;

(7) Walking, sitting or lying on a railway line, or passing on a railway line without a crossing or pedestrian aisle;

(8) Entering the closed area of the railway line without authorization or passing through the railway bridge or tunnel without pedestrian passages;

(9) Opening or closing the wagon valves and covers of the train without authorization or destroying the sealing state;

(10) Opening the container door in the train without authorization, destroying the box, valve, cover or sealing state;

(11) Loosening, dismantling, or moving the goods in the train without authorization to load reinforcement materials, devices, and equipment;

12) drill core with royal cars, pickpockets, jumping cars;

(13) Throwing debris from the train;

(14) Smoking on EMU trains or in non-smoking areas of other trains;

(15) forcibly boarding a train or forcibly occupying a train by refusing to get off the train;

(16) Impacting, blocking, or occupying passages in and out of the station or waiting areas or platforms.