Sanctions shall be executed by the Municipality of Garabito upon identifying non-compliance with the duties established in the chapters of this regulation, and shall follow the procedure below:
a. Upon evidencing non-compliance with duties by generating entities, the municipal official proceeds to document the non-compliance through photographs, witnesses, videos, among others, and transfers it to the municipal official responsible for taking action.
b. The competent official shall proceed to issue an infraction ticket, which shall notify the alleged transgressor, granting a period of 5 days to exercise the right to defense and submit exculpatory evidence.
c. Once the aforementioned period has expired, the competent municipal official transfers the infraction tickets, with their corresponding administrative file (expediente administrativo), to the Department of Environmental Engineering, verifying whether the situation persists or whether the measure stated in the notification was taken.
d. The Department of Environmental Engineering continues processing the file, analyzing the reported facts and issuing the final resolution, either acquitting the alleged offender or imposing the sanction; if the transgression of the legal framework is confirmed, it must transfer the resolution to the Collections Department.
e. The Collections Department must add the surcharge to the system so that it is collected together with the municipal taxes on the property.
f. The property owner pays the surcharge with the quarterly or annual taxes, as applicable.
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