English Translation

15a . before. In addition, the Government is authorized to impose further duties on the municipalities by decree, namely the alarm=, fire extinguishing= paramedical service.Finally, the political authorities may appoint associations of persons and individuals to the obligation to cooperate and expropriate movable and immovable property for the benefit of the State or the Geneinde against compensation and property. The execution of this authorization is by Governmentever= Ordinance of 18 October 1935 (Slg.d.Ges.u.Verordnungen p.577), the establishment of Ktfeekazx Help Corps of the Fire Extinguishing Service, Samaritan Service, as well as the provision of security= and order service, etc. to equip and to train, the latter, using existing associations of persons, guard in particular national guard and associations for physical training. Finally, the communities are obliged to meet orders for darkening (extinguishing the lights). All these. Provisions appeared at first sufficient also for the German nationals in the Protectorate. However, with the heightening of the political situation in August l939, the need arose, at least in the area of darkening, not to leave the Borge for these protective measures to the municipalities, but to regulate uniformly for the Protectorate in accordance with the provisions of law. This was done by the decree of the Imperial Protector 2. on the obscuration in the Protd torat Bohemia and Moravia for the purposes of air protection of 25 August 1939 (Regulation sheet ACR.P. d.Reichsprotectors S.7l ff). This regulation was adopted on the basis of Article V (4) of the Führer's Decree of 16 March 1939 and Article 1 (2) of the Regulation on the law of law in the Protectorate of 7 June 1939 (RGBl.I.S.l039) in agreement with the competent Reich Central Offices. The regulation provides for the preparation and implementation of the blackout and threatens to pay up to 1 50.-RM or imprisonment up to 6 weeks in case of intentional or negligent violation. The German courts are responsible for the investigation and decision of the Zu= to be contradicted. formation of the Imperial Protector "on the arrangement of the dungeon= $b}$ lung" of September 1, 1939 (voBl.d.RProt.S.99) the dunk= nsR. lung was ordered with immediate effect for the territory of the Protectorate Pot. and thus all the measures of the decree of August 25, 40819