South Al Sharqiyah Municipality
Last updated: June 15, 2026
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The South Al Sharqiyah Municipality undertakes the following competencies:
- Preparing comprehensive plans in the field of municipal work, and submitting them to the Governor for approval.
- Preparing and implementing the awareness and guidance programmes needed to raise the level of community awareness, and to strengthen social communication and voluntary work, and submitting them to the Governor for approval, without prejudice to the competencies of the Municipal Council.
- Taking the measures necessary to preserve public health and cleanliness and to combat pests, in coordination with the competent authorities.
- Issuing municipal licences for commercial, industrial, tourism, recreational, health, professional and other activities.
- Improving and beautifying the streets and public squares in the governorate, in coordination with the relevant divisions and authorities.
- Establishing, walling and managing cemeteries, preserving their sanctity in coordination with the competent authorities, and working to prepare, transport and bury the dead.
- Establishing and managing slaughterhouses, inspecting them, conducting veterinary examination of animals before slaughter, and verifying the fitness of their meat after slaughter for human consumption.
- Establishing, managing and following up public markets, without prejudice to the competencies of the Ministry of Agricultural Wealth, Fisheries and Water Resources.
- Monitoring and inspecting food to verify its fitness and safety, monitoring factories, restaurants, shops and their workers and taking the necessary measures regarding them, and the health supervision of drinking water and verifying its quality and fitness for human use.
- Establishing, maintaining, lighting and managing the roads, bridges, pedestrian crossings and public car parks belonging to the municipality, preparing and installing traffic signs, and organising and developing the municipality's traffic-control means in coordination with the competent authorities.
- Establishing, managing and maintaining parks, gardens, children's playgrounds and toilets, and afforesting public places.
- Regulating building uses, inspecting and overseeing construction works, issuing licences for building, maintenance, restoration, additions and demolition, licences for building the various infrastructure networks, removing buildings that are in violation or in danger of collapse, and removing the resulting debris in accordance with the laws in force.
- Issuing licences for quarrying mountains, excavation, tree-cutting and the like, after the approval of the competent authorities.
- Monitoring and impounding stray and lost animals.
- Establishing and managing laboratories related to municipal work.
- Taking the measures necessary to drain rain and flood water and coordinating with the competent authorities, protecting the buffer zones of valleys, filling marshes and water ponds in open and public places, and obliging owners to do so when they exist on their property.
- Participating with the relevant authorities in investigating epidemic diseases and those infected with them, and informing the competent authorities.
- Proposing the imposition of municipal fees and submitting it to the Governor.
- Monitoring signboards and advertisements in coordination with the competent authorities.
- Managing beaches and the valley courses related to municipal work.
- Registering property lease contracts in accordance with the laws in force.
- Establishing a database and information specific to municipal work within its geographical area of competence, and preparing the necessary research and statistics, in accordance with the laws in force.
- Naming and numbering the streets, roads, alleys, squares, plazas and buildings, in accordance with the foundations and standards issued by the competent authorities.
- Providing all forms of support and assistance to the authorities concerned with disaster response.
- Holding cultural, sports and social festivals and activities in accordance with the laws in force, in coordination with the competent authorities.
- Taking the measures necessary to prevent encroachment on public and private State property, and taking the measures necessary to remove the encroachment.
- Taking the procedures and measures necessary to remove eyesores in the villages, residential neighbourhoods, roads, public squares, car parks, walkways and valleys.
- Monitoring weights, measures and scales in accordance with the provisions of the laws in force.
- Coordinating with the competent authorities.
- Taking the measures and making the arrangements necessary to prevent the dumping of waste in roads, markets, gardens, parks, car parks and other public places.
- Proposing draft municipal regulations and decisions, and submitting them to the Governor to take the necessary action regarding them in accordance with the provisions of the Governorates system.
- Proposing draft development plans for the governorate, and submitting them to the Governor.
- Providing administrative and technical assistance to the divisions of the municipality's branches and the divisions belonging to them.
- Preparing an annual work plan of the municipality's work priorities and scheduling its implementation over the year, and submitting periodic reports on what has been accomplished and the implementation obstacles — if any.