Poděbrady, Czechia · Limited traffic zone
Official name Vybraná místa – vjezd s motorovým vozidlem do vybraných míst a částí měst
The spa quarter of Poděbrady and both banks of the Elbe through it are closed to motor vehicles by traffic sign, and the town's ordinance č. 8/2023 sets the price of the permit that lets you past. Article 3 lists the places in words and leaves nothing to a map: the pedestrian zone running from Pionýrů through náměstí T.
G. Masaryka and the streets Lázeňská and Divadelní, which is the spa colonnade; the part of Divadelní between Na Valech and Jiřího náměstí; the pedestrian zone on Jiřího náměstí itself; the streets Labská, Na Dláždění, Turinského and Šternberská; Zámecké nábřeží and Labské nábřeží, the two Elbe embankments; and the dead-end stretch of Studentská up to the rear gate of the Dr. Filip sanatorium.
A day costs 100 Kč, and unusually for a Czech town there is a full ladder above it — 200 Kč a week, 800 Kč a month, 1 200 Kč a quarter, 1 600 Kč a half-year and 3 200 Kč a year — so a week costs what two days cost and a year costs what thirty-two days cost.
The charge falls due at the moment the permit is issued, and there is no waiver of the declaration for a single day, which Františkovy Lázně and Pec pod Sněžkou both grant: in Poděbrady you file the declaration at the latest when you apply.
Nobody pays who is registered as living inside the zone or owns property there, nor their close family, spouses and children, nor anyone using property inside it for business or public-benefit activity, nor holders of a ZTP or ZTP/P card and their companions. The ordinance took effect on 1 January 2024 and repealed the town's 2021 one; the national register records it as Platné.
Město Poděbrady — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 8/2023 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 .odt the register serves at /detail/SPPWPYO2Y5MM2TIA/text
Město Poděbrady — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 8/2023, čl. 5 odst. 1 písm. a): "za každý započatý den 100,- Kč". Per started day. The same article sets five flat alternatives above it — 200 Kč a week, 800 Kč a month, 1 200 Kč a quarter, 1 600 Kč a half-year, 3 200 Kč a year — which is the longest tariff ladder of any Czech town in this corpus; the daily rate is the one published here because it is the one a visiting driver pays. Čl. 6 makes it due at the same moment the permit is issued. This source is the register's .odt 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, by the week, month, quarter, half-year and year, and never mentions a time of day. Čl.
2 says where the ban itself comes from, in the words every Czech ordinance of this kind uses: 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. Unlike Františkovy Lázně and Janské Lázně, Poděbrady does not even name which sign.
Any time window belongs to that sign, and a sign is not a document we have read from an official source.
Six items, listed in čl. 3 and all in words rather than on a map: the pedestrian zone running from Pionýrů through náměstí T. G.
Masaryka and the streets Lázeňská and Divadelní, which the ordinance identifies as the Lázeňská kolonáda; the pedestrian zone on the part of Divadelní between Na Valech and Jiřího náměstí; the streets Labská, Na Dláždění, Turinského and Šternberská; Zámecké nábřeží and Labské nábřeží, the two Elbe embankments; the pedestrian zone on Jiřího náměstí; and the dead-end stretch of Studentská leading to the rear gate of the Dr.
Filip sanatorium. Two of the six are bounded by named cross-streets rather than by house numbers, which makes them exactly drawable in principle. What the ordinance does not do is draw any of it.
Město Poděbrady — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 8/2023, čl. 3. This source is the register's .odt 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. 7 is about who the driver is or what they do with a property inside the zone, never about what comes out of the exhaust.
Unlike Karlovy Vary, this town does not exempt battery-electric vehicles either — a new electric car pays the same 100 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. The ordinance sets the rate, the due date and the exemptions, and adds only that an entitlement to an exemption lapses if the fact behind it is not reported — it never prices the offence.
Driving past the 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 Poděbrady — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 8/2023, čl. 1 to čl. 7. This source is the register's .odt 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 too: the same result page shows č. 6/2021 as "Zrušeno k 01.01.2024", the day this one took effect. The page also carries something no other Czech record in this corpus has shown — the register's own correction log, stating that the administrator corrected the metadata "Datum nabytí účinnosti: 08.12.2023 → 01.01.2024". The corrected value is the one čl. 9 of the act itself gives
Město Poděbrady — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 8/2023, full text as the register serves it (.odt). 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.