The City Council Public Safety of the City of Cehegín, Joaquín López Carreño reported that, on January 28, 2016, the Official Gazette of the Region of Murcia, issued a decree law laying down a series of urgent measures were detailed in matters of public entertainment, which entered into force took place on the day following its publication.
This Decree-Law, as explained, wants to address a loophole in our region in the absence of regional regulations when to criminalize offenses for breach of closing hours of public facilities or term of public entertainment and recreational activities .
Therefore, according to the Councillor, "this series of measures that we have been applying the municipalities, typified by our local regulation and a scale of penalties, now depend on its administrative implementation, the Autonomous Community of Murcia and the Directorate-General matters of public spectacles. that is, when an infringement is committed in this regard, and the police have an obligation to punish, this complaint will be sent to the respective bodies of the Autonomous Community, which is where you have to direct the concerned ".
The Department of Public Safety has also reported the various sanctions, published in this Decree-Law, which could range from a minor breach, between 200 and 1,000 euros;
and severe, which it would be between 1,000 and 5,000 euros.
Minor offense is opening or closing of public establishments or holding public performances or recreational activities outside of the stated or authorized.
And the serious offense the commission within one year of a third light by the opening or closing of public establishments or holding public performances or recreational activities outside of the stated or authorized infringement.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín