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The municipal inspection teams are exerting efforts in following up the transportation process of waste across Muscat governorate; as random landfill waste is one of the major municipal challenges harming the environment. The teams constantly alert contractors and lorry drivers of the risk of waste to the environment, and educates them that the fine of that can reach (1000) Omani rials.
Municipal orders and laws came to protect the environment from those who cause harm to it, in order to overcome the challenge of dumping waste, especially the waste of random landfi. For the legislative aspect, article 11 of local order 1/2006 on protective health and administrative decision 2017/55 poses fines to violators.
The procedures governing municipal licenses also compel the contractor or the owner of the house to clean the site after the completion of construction, so that approval or licensing of some services related to construction as a service (electricity or water) can be given only after the safe disposal of those wastes.
On another domain, administrative decision No. 55/2017 came to determine administrative sanctions for violations of the Muscat Municipality law issued by Royal Decree No. 38/2015.
In the field of environmental violations, some articles of the decision stipulate that anyone who throws waste in public (whether fenced or unfenced), open squares or wadies will be fined (1000) thousand Omani rials.
In case of repetition, the fine is doubled and the violator is given a one-day deadline to transfer the waste to the places allocated for it. The decision also applies when failing to remove construction or restoration waste or dumping it in third-party lands or public places or the transfer of dust from non-designated places with a fine of (100) one hundred Omani rials, in case of repetition, a fine of (300) three hundred Omani rials shall be imposed and a one-day deadline is granted to terminate the violation.