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On measures to improve water supply, sewerage and sanitation in the Republic. ( Izv. No. 71, S. U. 28‐160 ).

Article No. 160.

Decree of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars.

On measures to improve water supply, sewerage and sanitation in the Republic.

In order to improve the sewage and sewerage area and water supply in the Republic, as well as the sanitary condition of cities and settlements. The Council of Peopleʹs Commissars decided:

1)                   In view of the particular importance of the work on water supply, sewerage and sewage disposal at present, recognize all enterprises and institutions performing this work on the territory of the RSFSR as shock with all the ensuing consequences.

2)                   Book workers and employees actually employed in water supply, sewerage and sewage disposal, who are available in the aforementioned enterprises and institutions on the day of the publication of the decree: persons of the command staff and those born in the period 1894‐1901 are not subject to booking, which are granted deferrals by the Central Commission on deferrals for personal petitions initiated through the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Internal Affairs.

3)                   Former workers and employees of water supply, sewerage and sewage disposal enterprises and institutions who are in the Red Army are seconded to their previous service or to similar enterprises at their place of residence at the request of the relevant enterprises or utility departments, declared through the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Internal Affairs; The following are not subject to secondment: a) persons of command and administrative staff, b) students in command courses, as well as in courses subordinated to the Central Directorates of the Military Department, which train various kinds of specialists, c) all Red Army men born in the period 1894‐1901.

Note . Persons in command personnel not higher than company commanders, administrative and economic personnel not higher than 5th grade and Red Army men born in the period 1894‐1901 can be seconded only personally in accordance with the order of the Council of Labor and Defense of November 17, 1920, announced in the order of the RVSR No. 2539 of November 23, 1920.

4)                   Utility departments are allowed to independently purchase for the needs of water supply, sewerage and sewage disposal of horses unsuitable for the Army, at fixed prices set by the Evaluation Commission under the Mobilization Department of the Headquarters of the Workers ʹand Peasantsʹ Red Army. Batches of horses up to 30 heads can be purchased with permits issued by local Executive Committees, in excess of this number ‐ with permits of the Main Directorate of Horse Breeding and Horse Breeding.

5)                   Horses of the transports of the Utility Departments serving water supply, sewerage and sewage disposal are not subject to either military mobilization, or animal service, or use by Transport Departments for the purpose of loading and unloading wagons and ships in accordance with the decree of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars dated August 3, 1920 (1920, No. 71, p. 329 ).

Signed by:

Chairman of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

N. Gorbunov, Administrator of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars .

Secretary L. Fotieva .

March 21, 1921.

Published in No. 71 of the News of the All‐Russian Central Executive

Committee of Soviets on April 2, 1921.