The text, sent by the Department of Commerce and Institutional Relations, has received the support of the Committee on Infrastructure, Finance and General Affairs, prior to approval by the Plenary.
The economic amount must not exceed 1,500 euros and tax, urban and traffic sanctions are excluded, those imposed on legal persons and repeat offenders.
The regulation that will replace administrative sanctions for work for the benefit of the community has advanced today a new step, after the favorable opinion received by the Committee on Infrastructure, Finance and General Affairs, with the text submitted by the Department of Commerce and Institutional Relations, directed by Maruja Pelegrín.
Now, the text of the Ordinance Regulating the Procedure of Substitution of Economic Sanctions for Work in Benefit of the Community will be transferred to the Plenary, will be publicly exposed for 30 days and, after resolving the allegations, it will be definitively approved in another plenary session for its entry in force.
The document was agreed by the working group that was set up for this purpose, with the participation of the political groups and municipal technicians, and submitted for public consultation.
As of that moment, the people sanctioned by an administrative infraction will have the possibility of carrying out works for the benefit of the community as an alternative to the execution of the economic amounts.
As a guide, those interested can develop these tasks in the services of environment, sports, social welfare, youth, culture, libraries, public cleaning, maintenance and repair of street furniture and signage.
The councilor Maruja Pelegrín reminds that this way "will always be voluntary and will be open to people who incur an administrative penalty, legal age of legal age of unemployment or otherwise, that the family unit obtains limited economic resources."
On the other hand, the violation of the ordinances must involve an economic amount equal to or greater than 50 euros and not exceed 1,500 euros, but exclude tax penalties, urban planning and traffic, those imposed on legal persons, groups of affected, unions and entities without legal personality and independent or autonomous assets or recidivist behaviors, understood as such, have been sanctioned by a final decision, in the two years prior to the date of commission of the offense, for an infraction thereof kind.
Educational and social purpose
The approval of this ordinance incorporates' an educational and social purpose, since it aims to generate in the citizen who has been sanctioned a greater involvement in the fulfillment of the norm and, at the same time, replenish the community, with his personal effort, the damages or damages that may have been caused by his infringing conduct, in addition to lessening the heavy consequences that may result in the payment of a pecuniary fine, "explains Pelegrín.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia