Františkovy Lázně, Czechia · Limited traffic zone
Official name Vybraná místa – vjezd s motorovým vozidlem do vybraných míst a částí města
The spa centre of Františkovy Lázně is closed to motor vehicles by traffic sign, and the town's ordinance sets the price of the permit that lets you past it. The ordinance is unusually precise about which sign: B1 with supplementary plate E13 reading "Vjezd povolen po zaplacení místního poplatku" — entry permitted once the local charge is paid. Behind it are six streets in full — Dr.
Pohoreckého, Boženy Němcové, Jiráskova, Národní třída, Husova and Poštovní — plus the stretch of Ruská between Americká and Dr. Pohoreckého, and the pedestrian zone, which stays open for deliveries. A permit costs 50 Kč per vehicle for each started day, and that is the only rate: there is no weekly, monthly or annual alternative to buy.
For a single day, or part of one, you do not even have to register — the ordinance waives the declaration for a one-off permit.
Residents and property owners inside the zone pay nothing, and neither do their close family, businesses and public-benefit users of property there, ZTP and ZTP/P card holders with their companions, anyone over 65 registered as living in the town, delivery vehicles, or a spa guest staying inside the zone, who is exempt for the whole of the stay rather than just the arrival and departure days.
The ordinance took effect on 31 January 2026 and replaced the town's 2023 one; the national register records it as Platné.
Město Františkovy Lázně — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 1/2026 o místním poplatku za povolení k vjezdu s motorovým vozidlem do vybraných míst a částí města, čl. 1 to čl. 9, as deposited in the Ministry of the Interior's national register of municipal legislation (SPP). The watched strings are on the register's result page for this town and this subject area; the wording itself is in the .docx the register serves at /detail/SPP5YOD7VXGCSCTI/text
Město Františkovy Lázně — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 1/2026, čl. 5: "Sazba poplatku činí za vozidlo a každý započatý den ... 50,-Kč". Per vehicle and per started day, and this is the whole of čl. 5 — unlike Karlovy Vary, Mariánské Lázně and Znojmo, this ordinance offers no flat weekly, monthly or annual alternative, so 50 Kč a day is the only price in it. The charge falls due when the permit is issued (čl. 7). This source is the register's .docx of the act, and since D-192 the monitor unzips it and reads the wording: the strings watched here are quoted from the act itself, and the register's result page for the same act is watched separately
The ordinance states no hours. It prices a permit by the started day and never mentions a time of day, and čl. 2 is explicit that the entry ban is not its own doing: the charge is for a permit into places "do kterých je jinak vjezd zakázán příslušnou dopravní značkou" — where entry is otherwise prohibited by the appropriate traffic sign.
Here the ordinance goes further than the other Czech ones and names that sign in čl. 3: B1 with supplementary plate E13 reading "Vjezd povolen po zaplacení místního poplatku". Any window belongs to that sign, and a sign is not a document we have read from an official source.
Six streets in full plus one part-street and the pedestrian zone, listed in čl. 3: Dr. Pohoreckého, Boženy Němcové, Jiráskova, Národní třída, Husova, Poštovní, the part of Ruská running from its crossing with Americká to its crossing with Dr.
Pohoreckého, and the pedestrian zone "s možností zásobování" — with delivery access. Only Ruská is partial, and its two ends are named streets rather than house numbers, which makes this the most exactly drawn of the Czech zones in words. What the ordinance does not do is draw it on a map.
Město Františkovy Lázně — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 1/2026, čl. 3. This source is the register's .docx of the act, and since D-192 the monitor unzips it and reads the wording, so the strings watched here are the act's own
There is no emission test. The ordinance asks nothing of the engine: entry turns on holding a permit, and every exemption in čl. 6 is about who the driver is or what the vehicle is doing, never about what comes out of the exhaust. Unlike Karlovy Vary, this town does not even exempt battery-electric vehicles — a new electric car pays the same 50 Kč a day as anything else.
There is no emission test, for diesel or for anything else, and there is no Czech scheme that sets one. On 15 September 2026 the Ministry of the Interior's national register of municipal legislation held zero acts, in the whole country and over its whole history, whose title contains "emisn" — the stem of nízkoemisní zóna — against 107 for "vjezd" and 4 029 for the control phrase "o nočním klidu".
That zero was never evidence on its own, and cycle 67 read the statute to find out why. § 14 odst. 1 of the Air Protection Act (201/2012 Sb.), read from the ministry's official ELI endpoint in the version in force on 15 September 2026, creates a nízkoemisní zóna by "opatřením obecné povahy vydaným v přenesené působnosti" — a measure of general nature issued in delegated state administration, decided by the rada obce.
This register holds obecně závazné vyhlášky and nařízení, and an opatření obecné povahy is neither, so a Czech low emission zone could not appear here whatever municipalities had done.
What the register does rule out is the money: § 14a lets a municipality set a nízkoemisní poplatek by obecně závazná vyhláška, which would be filed here, and the register's controlled vocabulary of 137 statutory empowerments cites 201/2012 Sb. exactly three times — § 10 odst. 4 (10 acts filed under it), § 16 odst.
5 (241) and § 17 odst. 5 (19) — and never § 14 or § 14a. So no Czech municipality has introduced a low-emission charge.
Cycle 68 read that other collection, and it settles the rest. § 14 odst. 6 requires a municipality that establishes a zone to send the measure to the Ministry of the Environment within one month of announcing it, and the state service catalogue registers the ministry’s duty to publish the resulting list as agenda A1126, in force since 29 May 2021.
That list is a page on the ministry’s own site, and on 15 September 2026 it read "V ČR zatím nebyla v žádné obci zavedena nízkoemisní zóna" — no municipality in the Czech Republic has yet established a low emission zone — and added that the national system for checking a vehicle against a zone has not been switched on, because there is no zone to check it against.
This is no longer an inference from a register that could not have held the instrument: it is the receiving ministry’s own statement, on the page its own service catalogue names as the statutory list. The one restriction the ministry does name is in Prague, where parts of the city bar vehicles over 3.5 tonnes that do not meet Euro 6, and it says in the same sentence that this is not a nízkoemisní zóna within § 14.
We do not publish that Prague restriction here, and cycle 69 measured why rather than assuming it. The ministry points at the city’s own service catalogue for the detail, and praha.eu serves those entries from /api/, a path its robots.txt forbids. The two channels that are not forbidden were then asked, and both answer nothing.
The city’s own register of vyhlášky a nařízení holds 1,049 acts and returns zero for vjezd, nákladní, emisní, nízkoemisní, tranzit and Euro, against controls of 12 for ovzduší, 13 for vozidel, 12 for omezení, 8 for stání and 5 for zákaz on the same instrument; the only two acts it returns for emis are air-quality programmes for 2006 and 2010-2012.
The city’s open data catalogue at opendata.praha.eu holds 408 datasets and returns zero for vjezd, nákladní, emisní, značení, tranzit and Euro, against controls of 23 for doprava and 2 for zóna. Prague’s own sitemaps enumerate 67,796 URLs and none of them is a rule page for it either.
That is consistent with what the ministry says the instrument is: not an ordinance and not a § 14 zone, but a road authority’s act carried on a traffic sign.
No official source we hold states a fine for driving in. This ordinance is shorter than the other Czech ones and does not even carry the late-payment article they do: it sets the rate, the due date and the exemptions, and stops.
Driving past the B1 sign without a permit is an offence against the traffic sign under the road traffic act, which the ordinance does not cite and whose scale we have not read from an official register. Not estimated.
Město Františkovy Lázně — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 1/2026, čl. 1 to čl. 7. This source is the register's .docx of the act, and since D-192 the monitor unzips it and reads the wording, so the strings watched here are the act's own
Ministerstvo vnitra ČR — Sbírka právních předpisů územních samosprávných celků a některých správních úřadů, the act's own record page, carrying the register's structured validity field. Platnost reads Platné, and the field moves for this town twice over: the same result page shows č. 2/2023 as "Zrušeno k 31.01.2026" — the day this one took effect — and č. 4/2019 as "Zrušeno k 15.03.2023" before it
Město Františkovy Lázně — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 1/2026, full text as the register serves it (.docx). This is the primary wording behind every fact above; the monitor unzips it and reads the wording (D-192), so the strings watched here are the act's own
Next scheduled re-check: 2027-03-15.