Most are minor, but carry a financial penalty of 100 euros
The Cartagena City Council intensified since the last quarter of last year the initiation of sanctioning procedures for conduct against the Urban Cleaning Ordinance. Offenses such as urinating and spitting on public roads, throwing waste by passers-by and vehicle occupants and by the discharge of water from air conditioners or by watering plants, are being sanctioned by the Department of Infrastructure, which Directed by Diego Ortega.
Most of these offenses are minor, but carry a financial penalty of 100 euros. In the last quarter of 2021, a total of 57 sanctioning files were opened, of which 39 are for urinating in the street and 2 for spitting; 13 for throwing garbage on public roads by passers-by or by the occupants of a vehicle; and another 3 penalties for pouring water from air conditioners or watering plants onto public roads.
“Having a cleaner municipality also involves complying with and enforcing the Urban Cleaning Ordinance, which sanctions totally unacceptable behavior that tarnishes the image of the city. It is not acceptable to urinate on public roads, or to throw garbage on the street. As the saying goes, the cleanest is not the one that cleans the most, but the one that dirties the least”, recalled the Councilor for Infrastructure, Diego Ortega.
Minor infractions that are typified in article 45 of the Municipal Urban Cleaning Ordinance. Throughout the year 2019, some 90 procedures of this type were initiated, 102 in 2018, and 157 in 2017, the year in which the most complaints of this type are registered.
The procedure is activated as a result of the police complaint, after which a sanctioning file is initiated, the interested party is notified, who has a period of ten days to allege and present the documents he deems pertinent; or, present a document in which he acknowledges the facts (with the consequent reduction of 20% of the sanction). If he presents allegations, the Instructor raises a resolution proposal, notifying the interested party so that, during the hearing process, he can state what he deems appropriate. Finally, a resolution is issued, imposing a sanction.
#penalties #urinating #spitting #public #roads #Cartagena #quarter