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Municipalities Law No. 29 of 1955 and amendments thereto set forth the following responsibilities and powers that govern the functions of the Municipality within the City:
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City and Street Planning:
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Roads - constructing new roads, canceling or changing the routes of others; determining and constructing their sidewalks, width, route; paving, maintaining, cleaning, and lighting them; numbering the buildings along them; preventing encroachment upon them; conduct landscaping and planting alongside; and monitoring what may fall on them from open lands, and ordering owners of said lands to erect walls.
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Building Licenses:
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Monitoring the construction and destruction of buildings; and ordering changes their design; installation of elevators in them; granting of licenses for such works; determining the form and shape of a building and its area relative to the land on which it is to be built; and ensuring the existence of sanitary conditions in them.
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Water
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providing residents with water; determining the specifications for its supply, such as water meters, pipes; regulate its distribution; determine its prices and the cost of subscription to the service; preventing pollution of springs, water channels, tanks and wells
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Electricity and Gas:
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providing residents with electricity or gas; determining specifications for power generation and transforming stations, and distribution network; determining costs of consumption and subscription to the service.
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Sewage:
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installing sewage lines; constructing, managing and monitoring public bathrooms and urinals.
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Public Markets:
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regulating public markets and their establishment; determining the types of goods to be sold in them.
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Trades and Industries:
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regulating trades and industries; setting up particular locations for each class; monitoring shops and businesses that are deemed public nuisance or that may cause health hazards.
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Means and Modes of Land and Sea Transportation:
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construct, assign, regulate and monitor parking for vehicles within municipal boundaries; monitor boats and ships in regional waters.
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Hotels:
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monitor, regulate and determine the prices charged by hotels
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Public Places:
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monitor, regulate, determine business hours of, and collect fees on sale tickets in restaurants, cafes, clubs, bars, nightclubs, sports fields, theaters, cinemas, and other types of public amusement.
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Public Decency:
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maintaining public decency and fighting prostitution.
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Public Parks:
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establishing, monitoring and regulating public squares, public parks, gardens, baths, places for swimming in pools and lakes.
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Fire Stations and Fire Prevention:
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taking precautions to prevent fires; monitoring and regulating the sale and storage of fuels and flammables, and determine their prices; maintaining fire stations.
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Precautions against Flooding:
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taking precautions to prevent damage caused by floods and overflowing streams.
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Helping Victims of Disasters:
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providing aid to victims of fires, floods, earthquakes, and other disasters; and collecting donations for them and distributing these among them.
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Institutions:
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licensing of midwives; establish and monitor maternity and aid centers, quarantines, clinics, hospitals, pharmacies and other health institutions
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Cultural and Sports Institutions:
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establish museums, public libraries, and schools; and cultural, sports, social and arts clubs.
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Food Safety:
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inspect bread, meats, fishes, and fruits and vegetables and other food items; take measures to prevent fraudulent practices related to these; destroy unfit food items; determine the prices of food items and fight overpricing.
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Inspecting the Meat of Slaughtered Animals, establishing Slaughterhouses:
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testing livestock and poultry to be slaughtered; and taking precautions to prevent infections to them; determine the places for their sale; monitor their slaughter and dispense of their remains; also establishing slaughterhouses.
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Sanitation:
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collect, transport and get rid of street trash and garbage from homes and public places.
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Health Inspection:
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inspect residences and other places to ensure that dispensation of their waste is done properly and on regular bases; and to ensure the cleanliness of health tools in them; and take measures to combat mosquitoes and other pests.
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Public Health:
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take all measures and necessary precautions to maintain public health and prevent the spread of diseases.
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Cemeteries:
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set aside lands for cemeteries; take decisions regarding the closing thereof; monitor, and determine their locations and specifications; Also provide transportation and burial service for corpses; regulate funeral processions and maintain the sanctity of cemeteries
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Risk Prevention:
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take all necessary precautions to protect individuals and properties; prevent damages and harms caused by any acts mentioned in this article.
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Begging:
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prevent begging; establish shelters for the aged; monitor public solicitation for donations in public places.
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Lottery and Gambling:
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monitor lottery gambling activities
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Employment Offices:
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establish and monitor employment offices
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Civil Defense:
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create shelters against air raids and institute measures for civil defense.
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Vendors, Stands and Kiosks:
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regulate and monitor the businesses of traveling vendors, photographers, carriers, ‘shoe-shine boys’, stands and kiosks.
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Advertisements:
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monitor billboards and ads
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Destruction of Dilapidated Buildings:
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destruction of dilapidated buildings that pose a risk of collapsing or constitute a public health hazard, once a notice is given to the owner.
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Wholesale Scaling:
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weigh what is sold wholesale in public markets outside shops and stores.
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Right-of-Way:
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sale and make use of right-of-way lands and what is acquired for public projects.
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Stray Animals:
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monitor and destroy stray animals and take measures against risks posed by them; and provide licenses for them.
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Pack Animals:
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monitor pack animals used for transport and pulling, regulate markets where animals and livestock are sold, and forbid the sale of these outside said markets.
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Budget:
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approve the annual budget, final account statement and personnel salaries prior to referral to responsible authorities.
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Disbursement of Municipality Funds:
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managing Municipality properties and funds, and constructing, leasing, selling and purchasing needed buildings on such property, in accordance with the provisions of this Law. Also, receiving grants, donations and endowments.
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Other Functions:
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take any other action which is necessary for the purposes of this Law or any other legislation in effect in the Kingdom.
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