The Law Office has submitted a bill to Parliament that sets a fixed penalty of €85 for a total of 22 public order and municipal offences, modernising legal provisions that currently date back decades.
The bill, prepared by the Ministry of Justice and Public Order following a suggestion by the Union of Cyprus Municipalities, aims to amend the Out-of-Court Settlement of Offences Law.
The Council of Ministers approved the bill on 29 October 2025, before its submission to the House of Representatives yesterday.
The uniform €85 fixed penalty will apply to a wide range of misdemeanours, including the following 22 offences:
Dog-Related Offences (under the Dogs Law):
- Keeping a dog without a possession licence, or a dog that is not registered and microchipped.
- Keeping a dog in violation of any provision of the Dogs Law.
- Acting with the intent to deceive the competent authority or the Director during the registration or inspection of a dog.
- Walking a dog in a public place where the presence of dogs is prohibited.
- Causing a nuisance to the public through loud and continuous barking.
Municipal & Public Order Offences:
- Hawking without a licence.
- Operating recreational spaces without a licence.
- Allowing an animal to roam freely without supervision.
- Discharging or causing water or any other liquid to flow onto a road or into a street gutter.
- Driving a vehicle or riding a horse at excessive speed or dangerously.
- Intentionally causing obstruction of any road with a motorised vehicle, carriage, wagon, handcart, animal, or other means.
- Intentionally causing obstruction of any road by placing any rope, cord, or mast across or along such a road, or by hanging or placing clothes for drying, advertisements, slogans, or other items.
- Intentionally causing obstruction of any road by placing any folding shutters or awnings, covers, or other projections, unless the lowest point is at least 12 metres high from the ground.
- Engaging in soliciting customers and harassing passers-by for immoral purposes.
- Shaking or dusting carpets or other similar objects onto a road from any part of a house or other building.
- Intentionally causing damage or harm to a road.
- Throwing soil, tiles, wood, rubbish, water, or any other item from the roof or any part of a house or other building.
- Throwing, placing, or abandoning any object or item in or upon any road or public space.
- Allowing an object or item to fall into any underground sewer belonging to or under the control of the council or any other authority.
- Intentionally causing obstruction of any road by rolling or carrying barrels, boats, barrel covers, wheels, ladders, planks, timber, or pieces of wood upon the pavement, except for the purpose of loading or unloading a vehicle or crossing the pavement.
- Intentionally obstructing a road by placing, hanging, or otherwise displaying goods or merchandise for sale in a way that projects into or over the road or beyond the building line, thus impeding the passage of persons.
- Leaving dangerous openings in a road within municipal boundaries (pits, underground sewers, etc.) in a manner that does not prevent a person from falling into them.
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