(MENAFN- Muscat Daily) Muscat- Muscat Municipality is making a lot of efforts to set up public parks and children's playgrounds in different neighbourhoods in the governorate. However, the municipality is facing challenges due to vandalism and tampering of public facilities.
Established for the benefit of the whole community, some of the public properties commonly tampered with include, gaming equipment, street lights and irrigation systems. The civic body is also grappling with random waste disposal, barbecuing on green or walkways and graffitiing on public walls.
Asmahan Ashu Shukailiyah, a social researcher in the Awareness Department of the Muscat Municipality, said tampering with public utilities and properties violates local ordinances prescribed by the Municipality Law issued by the Royal Decree 32/97. It also puts an additional burden on the municipality to repair the damaged public utilities.
Article 3 of the law prohibits picking flowers, climbing trees or cutting their branches, walking on green areas, barbecuing on walkways or green areas, damaging plants, tampering with irrigation systems, and driving motorbikes and cars in public parks or on beaches.
As per Article 4 people visiting public gardens, parks or playgrounds are prohibited from engaging in any action that causes inconvenience to others, like turning up the volume of musical equipment, or performing any indecent act.
Article 5 states that it is prohibited to leave children under the age of 12 without supervision in gardens, public parks or playgrounds. Article 6 prohibits walking animals in public parks.
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