Mariánské Lázně, Czechia · Limited traffic zone
Official name Vybraná místa – zóna s dopravním omezením se zákazem vjezdu všech motorových vozidel
The spa centre of Mariánské Lázně is a signed traffic-restriction zone that all motor vehicles are barred from, and the town's ordinance sets the price of the permit that gets you in.
It is the only Czech ordinance in this corpus that names the signs: you enter under IZ 8a, a zone with a traffic restriction, carrying the symbol of B11, no entry for any motor vehicle, and the words "Mimo vozidla s povolením MěÚ Mariánské Lázně" — except vehicles with a permit from the town office.
It is also the cheapest of the four: 50 Kč per vehicle for each started day, or 300 Kč a week, 700 Kč a month, 5 000 Kč a year. A zero-emission vehicle is exempt outright, and so is a guest paying to stay in a spa, holiday or hotel property inside the zone — but only on the day the stay begins and the day it ends.
Residents, owners and tenants of property inside the zone and their families, businesses and public-benefit users of property there, holders of a ZTP or ZTP/P disability card and their companions, a general practitioner on call, emergency vehicles, town maintenance and the scheduled bus and trolleybus services all pay nothing. In force since 1 January 2024; the national register records it as Platné.
Město Mariánské Lázně — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 5/2023 o místním poplatku za povolení k vjezdu s motorovým vozidlem do vybraných míst a částí měst, 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/SPPDCQSERXMNZ3NU/text
Město Mariánské Lázně — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 5/2023, čl. 5 odst. 1: the základní sazba is "50,- Kč/vozidlo za každý započatý den". The flat alternatives in the same article are 300 Kč per vehicle per week, 700 Kč per month and 5 000 Kč per year. The charge falls due when the permit is issued, and also on the day payment is made at a parking machine (čl. 6). 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, and unlike Český Krumlov's it does not even hint that some permits are time-limited: it prices a day, a week, a month and a year and never mentions a clock time. The ban itself is on the traffic sign rather than in the ordinance, and this is the one Czech ordinance that says which sign: IZ 8a with the B11 symbol at the entrances, IZ 8b with the same symbol at the exits.
If those signs carry a supplementary time plate, the ordinance does not reproduce it and we have not read it from an official source.
The spa centre, listed street by street in čl. 3: Chopinova from no. 498 to the junction with Ibsenova; Ibsenova from the junction with Fibichova to where it meets Masarykova; Nehrova; Purkyňova; Lesní; Úzká; Lázeňská; Masarykova from the end of Ibsenova to Goethovo náměstí; Karlovarská from the junction with Dusíkova to Goethovo náměstí; Reitenbergerova from the Casino building no.
95 to Goethovo náměstí; and Goethovo náměstí itself. Five of the eleven are bounded by a named house number or junction rather than running whole, so the ends are precise in the text — this is the most exactly drawn of the four Czech zones in this corpus. The entrances are signed IZ 8a and the exits IZ 8b, both carrying the B11 no-entry symbol and the exception for vehicles holding a town-office permit.
Město Mariánské Lázně — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 5/2023, čl. 2 and 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 a petrol engine: entry turns on holding a permit. The powertrain matters once, and as a release rather than a threshold — čl. 7 exempts anyone driving a bezemisní vozidlo, a zero-emission vehicle, and no petrol or hybrid vehicle qualifies for that however new.
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 an amount. The ordinance sets no fine of its own: passing an IZ 8a sign carrying the B11 symbol 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 Mariánské Lázně — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 5/2023, čl. 2 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: counted on 15 September 2026 across all 112 acts filed in the country under this subject area, it reads Platné 44 times and "Zrušeno k" with a date 68 times
Město Mariánské Lázně — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 5/2023, 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.