Preserving Urban Spaces: The Importance of Responsibility
The Municipal Enterprise «Service Center» manages numerous urban development sites across Odessa.
This includes 45 monuments that are not classified as cultural heritage, along with 4 urban elements at the city's entrances.
Additionally, the enterprise oversees 27 fountains and 16 drinking water complexes.
Every day, municipal workers inspect their assigned sites to identify acts of vandalism and respond swiftly to rectify any damage.
In the first nine months of this year, there have been around thirty incidents of vandalism, mainly involving graffiti, damaged paving, and fountain components.
Specialists promptly address the aftermath of vandalism, restoring damaged items and covering up offensive markings.
The Odessa City Council urges residents and visitors to treat city property with care. If you witness vandalism, please report it by calling: 102 (police).
Deliberate destruction of municipal property carries criminal liability.
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Liability for Damaging Municipal Property
Criminal Code of Ukraine
Article 194. Intentional Destruction or Damage to Property
1. Intentional destruction or damage to another's property causing significant harm is punishable by a fine of up to fifty (850 UAH) non-taxable minimum incomes of citizens or other penalties up to two years of imprisonment.
Article 296. Hooliganism
1. Hooliganism, which grossly violates public order, is punishable by a fine from five hundred (8500 UAH) to one thousand (17000 UAH) non-taxable minimum incomes of citizens or imprisonment for up to five years.
