Published by the
Chairman of the Physical Culture and Sport Committee
Updated and
published in “Parliament
Presidium Bulletin”, copy 29 from 11
April 1958
Came into effect from
11 April 1958
1. Tourist
or alpine chalets are public properties. They are designed as places for
spending the night and rest of all the tourists and alpinists – members or
non-members of any tourist association.
2. Tourist
or alpine chalet is any building or part of it hosted or managed by:
a)
Bulgarian Tourist Association (BTA) and its branches
or
b)
Any trade union, department, cooperation or other
association if in its ratified plans the building is designed for tourist and
alpinists’ use.
NOTE: The shelters in the mountains as well as the tourist
houses in the towns, all the buildings in Vitosha
National Park, built over 1000 m. altitude, excluding these with specific
purpose according to their ratified plans, are considered to be tourist or
alpine chalets as well.
Meteorological observations and stations, buildings of the forest authorities and farms, chalets of the National Fishermen and Hunters’ Association, buildings for protection of the water-supplying zones, all the power stations and their subsidiary buildings are not considered to be tourist or alpine chalets.
3. The tourist or alpine chalets are opened any time of the year twenty-four hours per day. Anyone who has valid identity card or other official identity document will be sheltered in it.
4. Any tourist or alpine chalet has to have:
a) Furnished tourist kitchen where free hot sugarfree tea has to be served anytime. It has to be equipped with outfits for drying clothes and shoes.
b) Medicine cabinet and emergency medical equipment for first aid. The number and the type of the drugs are specified by the Mountain Rescue Service (MRS).
c) Rescue equipments and subsidiary outfits on MRS instructions only in certain specified by BTA and MRS alpine chalets where often there are storms, land-slips as well as serious dangers.
d) Fire-precaution devices and equipment.
5. The following notebooks must be kept in any tourist or alpine chalet: visitors’ book, revision book and book for recommendations, praises and complaints.
²². USING THE CHALETS
6. Every
Bulgarian or foreign citizen has the right to be sheltered and to use the
inventory of the chalet.
7. The
guests of the chalets are obliged:
a)
To observe these regulations and to fulfil the instructions of the officials in the chalet;
b)
To cooperate the host, the duty officer as well as MRS
in rescue actions;
c)
To take care of and to prevent any fire-danger in the
chalets and the forests and to take part in extinguishing arisen fire as well.
8. The guests
write their complaints in the book for recommendations, praises and complaints
without taking the law into their own hands with the officers in the chalet.
The duty officer and the host are bound to inform immediately the host
association for the complaint. The host association must make a decision in 20 day-period and to inform the claimant.
9. The
host of the chalet is obliged:
a)
To run and manage well the chalet and its inventory;
b)
To keep the tourist marking in the region in good
condition following the host association instructions;
c)
To welcome the guests and to be polite with them;
d)
To know the chalet region well and to direct the
guests;
e)
To observe the Interior Regulations and the host
association instructions;
f)
To keep the visitors’ book as established;
g)
To keep the chalet and the region around tidy;
h)
To keep the chalet heated and wired;
i)
To give signals by ringing the bell, lighting or
others in bad weather conditions or other danger;
j)
To cooperate the MRS authorities in duties and rescue
actions;
k)
To give and take back books from the library and to
observe its regular return;
l)
Not to take any remuneration by the guests for
executing his duties;
m)
In case of breach the Interior Regulations to take
measures accordingly without taking the law in his hands or rude attitude.
10. The
host of the chalet has the right:
a)
To accommodate the guests in the order stated in the
Interior Regulations;
b)
To execute the punishments as stated in the Interior Regulations.
NOTE: This Interior Regulation is valid for the host as well
as for the managers of the huts and the other officers, substituting the host.
11. When necessary the tourist associations,
sections or alpine clubs send
duty officers in the chalets.
They have to:
a)
Control how the chalet staff executes their duties,
without interfering with them;
b)
Keep the observation of the Interior Regulations from
guests’ side, to note the complaints and praises and to inform the association
at once;
c)
To cooperate for accommodating the visitors.
The duty officers
execute these tasks according the BTA instructions and those of the host
associations.
12. The
guests are accommodated in their arrival order not earlier than three hours
before the sleeping hour.
10 %
from the places have to be kept for mothers with children, pregnant women, old
or ill men etc. up to one hour before the sleeping time, after that these are
shared out between the other guests.
In
case the capacity of the chalet is less than the number of the guests, the
following order has to be observed when accommodating the visitors: mothers
with children, pregnant women, ill men and children, boys and girls under 15 years, old men, the rest of the women and the other
tourists.
13. Any
reservations are absolutely forbidden except in the following cases:
a)
In manifestations organized by BTA and its branches;
b)
In tourist, alpine and ski competitions and organized
training – for the competitors, referees and coaches;
c)
For the participants in excursions, nevertheless which is the host association of the chalet and for organized youth
tours and excursions – with the agreement of the chalet proprietors.
In
these cases 50 % of all the places can be reserved. The Main Council of BTA may
change this percent in peculiar cases for different chalets.
14. No
person can stay in one and the same chalet more than 5 days unless there are
other places available. This prohibition is not valid for organized tourist,
alpine, qualification and sport-training manifestations.
15. In
buildings where there is more than one bedroom and if the conditions allow, men
and women are accommodated in different rooms. If there are no separate rooms,
the proprietors of the chalets are bound to adjust women and men rooms.
16. The
guests use the rooms and the inventory of the tourist or alpine chalets paying
certain fees. The fees are for spending the night, rest, using additional
blanket and heating.
Members of BTA
(tourist and alpinists) with valid for the current year membership cards and
students up to 14 years of age pay as follows:
For BED 2,50
levs
For PLANKBED 1,50 levs
The other guests
pay as follows:
For BED 6 levs
For PLANKBED 3 levs
This fee includes
using one blanket.
Children younger
than 7 years who sleep with their parents do not pay fees.
All the guests
who spend the night in the chalet may use the place for rest to 3 p.m. on the
next day.
The guests may
use beds for rest during the day. They pay half of the fee for spending the
night and use the beds to 3 p.m. on the same day.
For each
additional blanket the fee is 0,50 levs.
For heating
during the winter the fee is 1 lev.
17. For
every spending the night, rest, additional blanket and heating a receipt from
stamped and certified by BTA book is issued. The guests have to keep their
receipts during the stay in the chalet.
18. No one
may use the place for sleep and rest before giving his/her identity documents.
19. The enmarked fees are maximal. The host association may
decrease or abolish them.
20. Fees
are not paid by:
a)
Workers in labor days in chalet favor;
b)
Duty officers, MRS officers
and persons who inspect the chalet.
21. The
sleeping hours are the following:
During the winter (1
Oct. – 30 Apr.) – from 22 p.m. to 7 a.m.
During the summer (1
May – 30 Sept.) – from 23 p.m. to 6 a.m.
22. Every
guest has to take his/her place for sleep and rest up to the sleeping hour.
Those who arrive later have to settle quietly.
23. During
the sleeping hours inside the chalet and in its region full silence has to be
kept.
24. It is
forbidden to carry food, to cook and eat, to smoke and to make noise in the
bedrooms as well as to take in, to fit and smash skis.
25. After
the sleeping hours are over, the bedrooms have to be left so that to be cleaned
and refreshed. This has to be made latest up to 11 a.m.
When the blankets
are not put into sheets, one of their ends has to be marked, so that it can be
properly used only from the side of the head.
26. Every
guest is bound to clean and put the table in order after meal and to dump the
rubbish in the bins.
The rack-sacks
and the skis have to be put in the appropriate places.
27. Every
guest, after registering in the chalet, has the right to use free of charge the
dishes and has to return them washed and clean.
28. After
using the shelter and its inventory, everyone is bound to clean the building,
to tide it, to prepare woods for the stove and after locking the door to put
the key in its appropriate place.
29. The
chalet inventory in the yard and the region has to be used carefully.
The
rubbish has to be dumped into the bins or pits.
30. Polluting
the water into the water-supplying zones and the drinking water is absolutely
forbidden.
31. Picking
flowers, breaking branches, making fires and bivouacking in the yard and the
region is absolutely forbidden.
32. The
disturbers of the present regulations will be punished as follows:
a)
Reproof;
b)
Presenting the names of the disturbers for punishment in
the host association and its penalty section according to the BTA regulations;
c)
Removing from the chalet – in case of alcohol use,
disobedience or repetition of the disturbance;
d)
Not allowing a drunken man to spend the night in the
chalet.
The punishments
in point 3 and 4 are laid down only in case they do not expose to danger the
life or the health of the punished person. They are executed by the host in
accordance with the duty officer in the chalet and in MRS, if there are such.
33. In
case of hooliganism or other offence the chalet officers must give the guilty
person up for punishment to the appropriate authorities.
34. Revisions
in executing these regulations may be accomplished by:
a)
Members of the Main Council of BTA and the authorized
officers – in all the chalets all over the country, nevertheless which the host
association is;
b)
Members of the Regional Councils of BTA and the
authorized officers – in all the chalets located in their region;
c)
Members of the Association Councils and the authorized
officers – in all the chalets, hosted by these associations, tourist sections
or alpine clubs.
35. Revisions
in the chalets hosted by Departments, Trade unions, and Organizations may be
accomplished by authorized persons by the Managing Council and by authorized
members of any Regional and Association Councils of BTA.
36. The
officers from the Forest-park Managing Councils may accomplish revisions in the
chalets located in the forest-parks as well, but in the frames of the orders
and the regulations for the structure of these forest-parks.
37. Selling
and using any alcohol drinks in the chalet, in the canteen and in the region is
absolutely forbidden.
Playing
any hazardous games is absolutely forbidden as well.
38. Persons
who break down the chalet or its inventory pay the value of the damage at once.
39. The
execution of the present regulations is entrusted to Bulgarian Tourist
Association, Trade unions and all the organizations, departments and cooperations that host the chalets.
40. These
Interior Regulations are ratified with Decision No. 4 from 13 Feb. 1958 by the
Physical Culture and Sport Committee and becomes into effect from the date of
its publishing in “Parliament Presidium Bulletin”