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The regulation of installing sun-shades at residential building was to make sure that all sun-shades are installed safely without any risk of causing danger to people in all conditions, and intended to maintain the urban vision consistent with the urban environment.

• The resolution contains 11 regulatory articles.
•  Failure to comply with the technical requirements could affect services lines and distorts the public landscape.
• Decision No. 95/2018, which followed the regulation in 2018, took into account the previous requests of citizens.

     Article (2) of the regulation stipulates that it is not permissible to establish a sun shade in front of residential buildings and outside the boundaries of the land plot before obtaining a license (a written approval issued by the municipality). Article (3) emphasizes that the land is designated for a residential use only, and the minimum distance between the outer wall of the building and the street is (4,5 m), if it was less, the area of the sun shade should parallel the street. Each residential building should not install more than (4) sun shades, or equivalent to (50%) fifty per cent of the length of the outer wall of the building, whichever is less.

     Article (4) stipulates that the sun shades are only installed in front of the residential building according to designs and models of the municipality, and only after (2) two meters from the outer wall of the building.
     It may by an exception to reduce that distance to (5,1 m) in the cases decided by the municipality, allocating that distance for a corridor aligning the building and without any obstacles including planting trees.

     One of the contributions is to leave a distance of not less than (0,5 m) of half a meter between the sun shade and the street. All excavation work shall be only made manually, using a canvas (polyethylene) high density, or similar, with a colour specified by the municipality. .. The columns are painted by colours designated by the Municipality, and that the installation of the floor tiles according to the specifications specified by the municipality, with the license number of the municipality installed according to the selected model.

      Article (5) of the regulation stipulates that "the license is not a reason to won the property, or any concrete item in the site. The decision prohibits installation of sun shades at a dual carriageway that are less than 30 meters, and to pay a fee of 60 rials for each car park for one time, and obliges the owner to maintain the sun shade periodically.

       The decision says that anyone who contravenes these regulations is penalized by a fine of (100) rials, with obliging the offender to correct the violation, if it is not to corrected within a time limit, the municipality shall impose a fine of (10) ten Omani rials for each day of delay, with a maximum amount of 100 OMR.