Sunday 16 December 2018
The Ras Al Khaimah Public Services Department is currently studying the modernization and development of the public cleaning laws, raising the value of fines, tightening penalties for non-committed people and restricting all attacks on public littering and criminalizing them within the law. The PSD has recently completed the preparation and implementation of a law to oversee The carriers working in the field of sewage and the establishment of conditions and specifications for carriers that are based on the collection, transport and unloading of sewage and industrial and commercial health violations in the designated places.
In detail, the Director general of the Public services Department in Ras Al Khaimah, engineer Ahmed Al Hammadi, Said that that the department is currently conducting a comprehensive legal study to modernize and develop the public hygiene law in the emirate as the main pillar in the development of infrastructure Maintain the cleanliness of public areas, nature reserves and desert, mountainous, coastal and touristic areas in the various areas of Ras Al Khaimah.
He explained that the study of modernization and development of the public Hygiene law came to play a role in protecting natural and touristic places and to transform its provisions without attacking the environment with its natural areas of tourist dimension.
He added that His Highness Sheikh Saud Bin Saqr Al Qasimi, a member of the Supreme Council and ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, drew attention to the importance of monitoring patrols of the Department of Public Services to conduct a comprehensive survey and follow-up throughout the emirate to control all images of environmental abuse in the emirate as a new challenge aimed at the appearance Civilization of the emirate.
He pointed out that patrols have multiple powers to control environmental violations and hygiene through the deployment of patrols in the Corniche al Qawasim, the beach areas and the mountain of Jess and observe the land areas, and that since the beginning of this year the Department has been promoting the concept of hygiene and the environment through the implementation Awareness campaigns in schools within the Watch Al Sagir campaign, and follow up and support His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Saud bin Saqr al Qasimi, Crown Prince of Ras Al Khaimah.
He explained that the study includes tightening the penalties for the non-committed to public hygiene, and raising the value of fines in line with the penalties applied throughout the country, pointing out that a comprehensive inventory of all forms of attacks on the environment and public hygiene will be carried out to be criminalized in the updated bill.
He noted that new provisions of the Public Hygiene Act that were not present in the current law would be added, including fines for leaving barbecues in the open, fines for access to motorcycles and bicycles in green areas, and fines for waste water and sewage disposal in places Assigned to it.
He pointed out that the modernization of the public hygiene law comes to the importance of public hygiene in stimulating tourism and increasing the number of users of mountain, land and coastal areas, such as Mount Jess, Coral Island and nature reserves in Ras Al Khaimah.
He explained that patrols monitored the observation of some visitors from the wild, mountainous and natural areas to encroach on the aesthetic appearance of the emirate by leaving the waste foods in the natural areas and leaving coal and residues in the wild areas, which negatively affected the aesthetic and civilizational appearance of the emirate.
He pointed out that the General Services Department invites all visitors to maintain public cleanliness because the target of legal study and control of irregularities is not the punishment per se, but the establishment of the concept of protecting the environment and maintaining the aesthetic appearance of the emirate.