Fees for municipal services from Feb. 3

The Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs (MMRA) has endorsed executive regulations for demanding expenses on various municipal services from Feb. 3.

Including 36 articles, the regulations will, in addition to other things, streamline the licensing of cinema halls and theaters to align them with other commercial activities.

Yearly charges will be forced for gathering refuse, including development squander, from fuel stations, condo structures, inns and resorts, in light of the quantity of private units and licenses. There will be a yearly charge for gathering trash from shops and business outlets. This will be determined according to square meter territory.

The directions stipulate expenses dependent on the inhabitance of each lodging unit. There will be expenses for involving asphalts just as for introducing Automated Teller Machines (ATM) and broadcast communications towers, independent of the sort and responsibility for areas.

The directions determine the conditions for gathering charges on development licenses and different exercises in the field, for recharging licenses, site overviews and street works. There will be re-issuance charges for the substitution of any lost report.

Okaz/Saudi Gazette has gained from dependable sources that benefit expenses will likewise be collected for issuing licenses for the development of new structures or the extension of existing structures just as for the permitting of most business exercises.

The ministry has grouped the districts into five classifications to implement the directions. The principal class incorporates the districts of Riyadh, Makkah, Madinah, the Eastern Province and Jeddah. Regions of 12 littler urban areas fall in the second classification while the third, fourth and fifth classifications separately incorporate 29, 111 and 127 regions.