YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 24, NOYAN TAPAN. 76 unauthorized buildings were demolished in Yerevan after the June decision of the Yerevan mayor on Prevention and Suspension of Unauthorized Construction and of Seizures of Land Plots Representing State Property. The deputy mayor of the city Kamo Areyan said at the September 24 press conference that in the indicated period, 55 citizens, who had done anauthorozed construction, were fined in the amount of 200 thousand drams (about 597 USD), 30 ones - 400 thousand drams, and 3 citizens were fined in the amount of 2.5 million drams. Administrative fines of a total of 10 million drams were transferred to the RA state budget. According to K. Areyan, henceforth citizens may receive permission to carry out construction on their own lands from the community head, while in case of construction on lands representing state property they must apply to the mayor's office. By another decision of the mayor - the Decision on Construction Work Organization Measures in Yerevan, any urban developer is, in particular, obliged to prepare the building site so that construction work will not have a negative impact on the environment and the safety of traffic in adjacent areas. K. Areyan announced that members of the appropriate department (composed of 4 territorial bodies) of the mayor's office carry out an everyday control at the implementation of the indicated decisions of the mayor in various communities of the city.

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