Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, today has issued a new decree for organizing the use of federal roads and facilities.
The decree comes within the Federal Government’s strategy aiming to provide an up-to-date infrastructure, protect the federal roads and facilities and ensure the safety of their users.
The Ministry of Public Works, in cooperation with the Ministry of Justice is authorized, by the decree, to appoint judicial officers in order to seize and ticket violators on Federal roads.
The decree sets out a range of administrative fines for such violations between one thousand to 300 thousand Dirhams, according to the type of violation.
Besides, the decree gives exclusive use of roads and federal facilities to the Ministry of Public Works and not others, including the collection of fees for the use of roads and facilities in coordination with the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Interior and signs contracts with specialized companies to grant them the right of using federal roads and facilities for the purpose of advertising.
The ministry has the right to determine speed limits on federal roads and places to install radars in cooperation with the Ministry of Interior, though all revenues from installed radars should be handed to the public treasury of the state.
The decree also included that the Ministry of Public Works has to fulfil fees payable for services provided on Federal roads, assess the extent of damages and irregularities that resulted from traffic accidents taking into account the terms of reference prescribed by the law for any other party.
In addition to that, the decree included that the Ministry of Public Works has to monitor all infringements of Federal roads and determine the costs of repairing them and the costs of removing and processing irregularities to maintain their quality and provide protection for road users.
