Employees of the municipal enterprise «City Roads» are continually engaged in repairing public transport stops. Unfortunately, acts of vandalism occur daily: benches and trash bins are destroyed, and windows of the stops are shattered. Additionally, some stops are damaged due to traffic accidents.
Since the beginning of 2024, vandals have smashed 33 windows at bus stops, damaged 33 benches, 85 trash bins, and 15 roofs. The staff also has to clean the stops from writings and posters left by unknown individuals.
The municipal enterprise «City Roads» is responsible for 1012 public transport stops.
Specialists regularly perform sanitary cleaning of the areas around the stops, repair and restore benches, bins, and pavilions, and also wash and paint them.
The city council once again urges residents and visitors to treat municipal property with care. Deliberate destruction of municipal property can lead to criminal liability.
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Liability for Damage to Municipal Property
Criminal Code of Ukraine
Article 194. Intentional Destruction or Damage to Property
1. Intentional destruction or damage to someone else's property, causing significant harm, is punishable by a fine of up to fifty (850 UAH) non-taxable minimums of citizens' incomes, or community service for a period of one hundred twenty to two hundred forty hours, or corrective labor for up to two years, or imprisonment for up to three years.
Article 296. Hooliganism
1. Hooliganism, i.e., gross violation of public order motivated by blatant disrespect for society, accompanied by particular audacity or exceptional cynicism, is punishable by a fine from five hundred (8500 UAH) to one thousand (17000 UAH) non-taxable minimums of citizens' incomes, 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.
