Municipal licensing procedures law gets exec regs outlining license validity rules: Homeowners along with business owners and event organizers will have to abide by the new executive regulations of the municipal licensing procedures law. The move aims to outline and streamline the procedures for issuing, renewing, and modifying new and existing construction and commercial licenses.

New validity rules: Licenses for all types of construction — excluding buildings — have a maximum validity of 12 months, while the older rules had a validity of 1-3 years, according to the regulations published in the National Gazette. The validity of permits for the construction of buildings remains unchanged from the old rules (pdf) at three years. These types of licenses can be renewed for one additional year or to multiple terms of equal durations to the original validity.

Commercial licenses have a validity period of 1-5 years depending on the requested duration, while activities that fall under sectors of healthcare, hazardous materials, and service centers will have a permit validity of 12 months. The older version didn’t stipulate a specific validity period, but rather left it in the hands of the relevant government institutions under which the supervision of the activity falls to make decisions in accordance with their own rules. Street vendors have to renew their permits every 12 months.

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