1951 · 1959 · summer 1960 Its own council, and a spa for workersVlastný národný výbor a kúpele pre pracujúcich

Rajecké Teplice had been administratively tied to Konská since some point after 1880; in 1951 it was separated and given its own council, and from then the spa expanded fast. In 1959 it was formally declared a spa town, with a protected zone drawn around the springs so that nothing could be built or drilled that might spoil them — the water is the asset, and the law says so. Under the state system treatment was prescribed by a doctor and paid for by the health service, and the guests were factory workers and pensioners rather than the monarchy's gentry. In the summer of 1960 a flood did serious damage in the town.Rajecké Teplice boli po roku 1880 administratívne pripojené ku Konskej; v roku 1951 sa osamostatnili a dostali vlastný národný výbor — a odvtedy sa kúpele rýchlo rozrastali. V roku 1959 ich vyhlásili za kúpeľné mesto s ochranným pásmom okolo prameňov, v ktorom sa nesmelo stavať ani vŕtať nič, čo by vodu poškodilo: voda je tu majetkom a zákon to hovorí nahlas. V štátnom systéme predpisoval kúpeľnú liečbu lekár a platilo ju zdravotníctvo, takže hosťami neboli páni z monarchie, ale robotníci a dôchodcovia. V lete 1960 narobila v meste značné škody povodeň.