‘Get permits before construction’

KUWAIT CITY, June 13, (KUNA): Kuwait Municipality has issued 53 warnings to obtain building permits in all governorates since the start of the campaign to detect building violations and monitor violating properties in Kuwait.

On the sidelines of the field tour that the team carried out in Farwaniya Governorate, Saeed Al-Azmi, Director of the Engineering Audit and Follow-up Department in the Farwaniya Municipality Branch, explained that 4 warnings were directed to produce building permits to ensure that the property conformed to the license granted by the municipality.

Al-Azmi added that the campaign aims to ascertain the extent of real estate owners’ commitment to engineering licenses and the number of floors allowed according to the licenses granted to them by the Municipality. He indicated that, based on the directives of the Director General of Kuwait Municipality Ahmad Al-Manfouhi,

a committee was formed from the Legal Department to list violations of the construction of the fourth floor in the private housing areas in all governorates.

He pointed out that the current Law No. 2016/33 differs from the earlier Law No. 2005/5, indicating that the previous law imposed a fine on the person for the violation, while the current law contains an explicit and clear text indicating the removal of violations by a court ruling. He pointed out that the municipality, after the judicial ruling, has powers that allow cutting off electricity, as well as a daily fine for those violations.

Al-Azmi called on real estate owners to cooperate with the supervisory teams, abide by the building licenses granted to them by the municipality and remove their violations, pointing out that the supervisory team’s field tours continue in all areas of the governorate and their failure to take all legal measures against violators.