Vandalism Issues at Public Transport Stops
The Municipal Enterprise «City Roads» manages 884 public transport stops, with 605 featuring shelters. The enterprise is responsible for maintaining the areas around these stops, including cleaning, repairing bins, benches, and shelters, as well as washing and painting them.
Regrettably, the issue of vandalism persists. Since the beginning of the year, 9 incidents of vandalism have been reported.
Daily, unidentified individuals leave graffiti, break benches, and remove bins along with their concrete bases, and shatter the glass walls of the stops. Additionally, public transport stops often suffer damage due to road accidents.
The Odessa City Council once again urges residents and visitors to treat the city's property with care. Willful destruction and damage to municipal property carries legal consequences.
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Responsibility for Damage to Municipal Property
Criminal Code of Ukraine
Article 194. Willful destruction or damage to property
1. Willful destruction or damage to someone else's property causing significant harm is punishable by a fine of up to fifty (850 UAH) untaxed minimum incomes of citizens, or community service from 120 to 240 hours, or corrective labor for up to two years, or imprisonment for up to three years.
Article 296. Hooliganism
1. Hooliganism, defined as a gross violation of public order out of blatant disrespect for society, accompanied by special audacity or exceptional cynicism, is punishable by a fine from five hundred (8500 UAH) to one thousand (17000 UAH) untaxed minimum incomes of citizens, or arrest for up to six months, or restriction of freedom for up to five years.
2. The same actions committed by a group of persons are punishable by restriction of freedom for up to five years or imprisonment for up to four years.
