Parliament mulls municipal courts for building violations

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Tue, 20 Feb 2018 - 03:29 GMT

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FILE – Egyptian House of Representatives

FILE – Egyptian House of Representatives

Parliament’s Housing, Public Utilities and New Urban subcommittee is considering the establishment of municipal courts to settle disputes relating to the unappropriated land encroachments and building violations.

In their official letter submitted to Minister of Justice Ahmed Al Zind, the members of the committee invited the minister to attend their upcoming meeting to illustrate to him that the issues concerning the building violations need to be tackled and settled through a specialized court similar to the family court, given the fact that 50 percent of the buildings have significant facility problems.

Earlier on Monday, the Housing Committee convened to further discuss the newly-proposed Reconciliation of Building Violations law, by which the government would be reconciled with the violators as long as their unlicensed buildings do not violate the construction safety regulations and the authorized height rights, are built on agricultural or state-owned lands, or altered the features of distinctive architecture buildings in return for fees.

Under this law, building owners and contractors shall submit their settlement request to the concerned administrative authority during a three-month mandate and pay the fees needed to complete the reconciliation process. The money garnered will immediately go to the state’s budget to be spent on infrastructure and other development projects, according to Moataz Mahmoud, chairman of the Housing, Public Utilities and Reconstruction Committee.

Since January 2015, the ministry has launched a campaign to remove violations that had been detected by the government on the Nile banks. As per the Ministry’s latest data, which was announced Tuesday, a total of 26,322 encroachment violations on the Nile banks have been removed. Since March 2017, a total of 12,425 cases of encroachment were removed, according to the data.

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