Statute for Expediting Reconstruction of Urban Unsafe and Old Buildings Article 3

This Statute is applicable to legal buildings within the urban planning area that do not possess historic, cultural, art, and commemorative value designated by the industry authority, and meet any one of the following conditions:1. The authority of buildings sets a deadline for demolition or forced demolition in accordance with building laws and disaster prevention laws or evaluates the building as unsafe and sets a deadline for reinforcement or demolition.2. Not reaching the minimum level in a structural safety assessment.3. Building age of 30 years or above, seismic resistance not reaching the standard in the structural safety assessment, and improvements were ineffective or did not have a lift.Adjacent building lots or land may be combined for the reconstruction of legal buildings in the preceding paragraph.Where reconstruction of the site of unsafe buildings demolished in accordance with Article 81 and Article 82 of the Building Act before this Statute takes effect has not yet been completed, an application for reconstruction may be submitted in accordance with this Statute within three years after this Statute takes effect.Structural safety assessment in subparagraphs 2 and 3 of Paragraph 1 shall be commissioned by the building owner to an institution under an inter-entity supply contract with the central authority.The institution conducting the structural safety assessment and its personnel shall not give false certification or a false assessment report.The central authority shall prescribe the contents, application method, assessment items, weights, grade, assessment standard, assessment method, assessment report, and regulations on qualifications, management, review, and other relevant matters of institutions and their personnel under an inter-entity supply contract for the structural safety assessment in Subparagraphs 2 and 3 of Paragraph 1.