North Al Sharqiyah Municipality

• Developing policies and legislative frameworks to keep pace with local, regional and global developments in municipal fields.
• Delivering municipal services efficiently and effectively.
• Ensuring the provision of curative, preventive, health-promotion and pharmaceutical services to the residents of the Governorate and continuously raising the standard of those services.
• Developing and strengthening the mechanisms and tools for the sustainability of municipal services.
• Developing infrastructure and beautifying towns and neighbourhoods to contribute to balanced urban development.
• Protecting the environment and the public health of members of the community.
• Employing and harnessing modern technologies in the delivery of municipal services.
• Developing and strengthening awareness programmes for the preservation of municipal facilities.
• Improving the institutional capacity of the municipal sectors in the planning process.
• Promoting private-sector participation through investment in municipal facilities and services.

The Municipality, in coordination with the competent authorities, is responsible for providing all municipal services within the Governorate, and to that end exercises the following powers:

• Preparing comprehensive plans for municipal work and submitting them to the Governor for approval.
• Preparing and implementing the awareness and guidance programmes needed to raise community awareness and to promote social engagement and voluntary work, and submitting them to the Governor for approval, without prejudice to the competencies of the Municipal Council.
• Taking the necessary measures to protect public health and cleanliness and to control pests.
• Issuing municipal licences for commercial, industrial, tourism, recreational, health, professional and other activities.
• Improving and beautifying the streets and public squares of the Governorate.
• Establishing, fencing and managing cemeteries, preserving their sanctity, and arranging the preparation, transport and burial of the deceased.
• Establishing, managing and inspecting slaughterhouses, carrying out veterinary examination of animals before slaughter, and ensuring that their meat is fit for human consumption after slaughter.
• Establishing, managing and monitoring public markets, without prejudice to the competencies of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources.
• Monitoring and inspecting food to ensure that it is fit and safe; monitoring factories, restaurants, shops and their workers and taking the necessary action regarding them; and exercising health supervision over drinking water to ensure its quality and fitness for human use.
• Constructing, maintaining, lighting and managing roads, bridges, footpaths and public car parks; preparing and installing traffic signs; and organising and developing traffic control systems.
• Establishing, managing and maintaining parks, gardens, children's playgrounds and public toilets, and planting trees in public places.
• Regulating the use of buildings; inspecting and supervising construction work; issuing permits for construction, maintenance, restoration, extensions and demolition and for building the various infrastructure networks; and removing buildings that are in violation or in danger of collapse, together with the resulting debris, in accordance with the laws in force.
• Issuing permits for rock breaking, excavation, tree felling and similar activities, after the approval of the competent authorities.
• Monitoring and impounding loose and stray animals.
• Establishing and managing laboratories related to municipal work.
• Taking the necessary measures to drain rain and flood water, protect wadi reserves, and fill in swamps and ponds in open and public places, and requiring property owners to do so where these are on their property.
• Investigating epidemic diseases and those infected with them, and notifying the competent authorities.
• Proposing the imposition of municipal fees and submitting the proposal to the Governor.
• Monitoring signboards and advertisements.
• Managing beaches and wadi courses.
• Registering property lease contracts in accordance with the laws in force.
• Establishing a database of municipal information within its geographical jurisdiction, preparing research and compiling the necessary statistics, in accordance with the laws in force.
• Naming and numbering streets, roads, alleys, squares, open spaces and buildings, in accordance with the principles and standards issued by the competent authorities.
• Providing all forms of support and assistance to the authorities responsible for disaster response.
• Holding festivals and cultural, sporting and social activities in accordance with the laws in force.
• Taking the necessary measures to prevent encroachment on public and private State property, and taking the necessary action to remove any encroachment.
• Taking the necessary action and measures to remove eyesores in villages, residential neighbourhoods, roads, public squares, car parks, walkways and wadis.
• Monitoring weights, measures and measuring instruments in accordance with the provisions of the laws in force.
• Taking measures and making the necessary arrangements to prevent the dumping of waste on roads and in markets, gardens, parks, car parks and other public places.
• Proposing draft municipal regulations and decisions and submitting them to the Governor for the necessary action in accordance with the provisions of this System.
• Proposing ways of investing the Governorate's own resources to achieve sustainable development in accordance with the general policy of the State.
• Proposing draft development plans for the Governorate and submitting them to the Governor.