المملكة: 25% bonuses for those whose municipal violations … and allow the private sector to control them
The Ministry explained that this step comes with a major goal of raising the efficiency of the performance of the municipal control system, and encouraging individuals to report violations, in addition to making way for the private sector to contribute to managing detection and control operations with greater effectiveness.
According to the amendment that affected the first paragraph of Article Sixteen, the minister, or his representative, became the authority to grant a financial reward of an encouraging nature to any person who contributes to revealing the existence of a municipal violation.
The Ministry indicated that the value of this reward will not exceed 25% of the total value of the financial fine that is actually collected from the violator.
To ensure the highest levels of integrity and transparency, the amended paragraph explicitly stipulated that this reward is not permissible for those who have a job or contractual relationship with the municipal authorities, whether they are employees in the secretariats or municipalities, or workers with them, or even those who are used by these entities to implement the tasks of controlling violations or field inspection.
Flexibility of the drainage process
With regard to the exchange mechanism, the amended regulations indicated that determining the conditions and controls regulating the process of payment of bonuses will take place by the minister, in advance with the Minister of Finance.
The regulation provided flexibility in the exchange process, where the reward can be granted even before the fine is collected from the violator, provided that the violation is established in a regular and legal manner that does not accept doubt.
In an important development that reflects a trend towards partnership with the private sector, the third paragraph that was recently added to Article Sixteen stipulated that it is permissible to use the expertise and capabilities of the private sector to manage the operations of detecting municipal violations covered by the first paragraph.
This will be done in exchange for allocating a specific percentage of the amounts of fines that are proven to be collected as a result of these operations, provided that this percentage also does not exceed 25%.
It is expected that this addition will contribute to enabling companies specialized in the fields of control and inspection to work alongside government agencies, which may reduce the operational burden on municipal cadres and lead to an increase in efficiency in monitoring violations, especially in large cities and high population areas that require intensive and continuous control efforts.
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