The Verkhovna Rada intends to increase the size of fines for causing damage to green spaces in settlements and outside them.
Some 281 MPs backed at first reading bill No. 3805 on amendments to the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses and to the Criminal Code on increasing liability for violation of the rules of removing green spaces.
The authors of the bill, in particular, propose to increase fines for citizens from 100 to 200 non-taxable minimum incomes of citizens for causing damage to green spaces at landscaping facilities in the field of green economy of settlements (currently, the fine is from 10 to 30 non-taxable minimum incomes of citizens) and for officials or individual entrepreneurs – from 300 to 500 non-taxable minimum incomes of citizens (today the fine for them is from 30 to 50 non-taxable minimum incomes of citizens).
The bill also proposes to introduce a new article into the Criminal Code of Ukraine “Causing Damage to Green Spaces within Settlements.” According to this article, causing deliberate significant damage to green spaces in settlements is punishable by a fine from 500 to 1,000 non-taxable minimum incomes of citizens or corrective labor for up to two years, or custodial restraint for up to three years, or imprisonment for the same period.
The same actions committed repeatedly or by prior conspiracy of a group of persons are punishable by custodial restraint for a period from three to five years or imprisonment for the same term.
The actions, which led to grave consequences (consequences that are 60 or more times higher than the non-taxable minimum income of citizens), are punishable by imprisonment for a period from five to seven years.
