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Shenzhen Administrative Measures On Public Toilet

Original Language Title: 深圳市公共厕所管理办法

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Shenzhen municipality management approach

(Act No. 252 of the People's Government Order No. 252 of 19 July 2013, dated 1 September 2013)

Chapter I General

Article 1 enhances the management of public toilets in the city, improves the level of sanitation and facilitates the use of the social public and develops this approach in line with the relevant laws, regulations and regulations.

Article II applies to the planning, construction, management and maintenance of public toilets in the city's administration.

Article 3. This approach refers to public toilets, which are independent in public places or are attached to other buildings for use by the public. Mainly include:

(i) Municipal public toilets, which refer to investment-building and maintenance by urban administration, or transfer of public toilets maintained by urban administration following urban planning;

(ii) Social public toilets, which refer to public places such as communes, shores, hidings, airstrips, vincial tourist facilities, hospitals, parks, public greenfields, squares, commercial facilities, financial telecommunications network sites, fuel stations, tourist sites, agency units outside the open area, which are constructed and maintained by property units in accordance with urban planning;

(iii) Agreements on public toilets refer to the signing of service agreements between urban authorities and relevant units to upgrade their internal toilets and to open public toilets for use by the public at large after the mark.

Article IV. The management of public toilets should be guided by the principles of integrated planning, rationalization, environmental coordination, functional improvement and hygiene safety.

Article 5 Urban management (hereinafter referred to as the municipal authorities) is the administrative authority of the public toilets in the city, responsible for the preparation of specific planning, construction and management of the city's public toilets, and for the guidance, coordination, supervision and inspection of the entire city's management.

The Government of the People of the Region (which includes new regional management bodies, under the same authority) is the subject of the responsibilities of the public toilets in the Territory, with the urban administration (hereinafter referred to as district authorities) specifically responsible for the management of public toilets:

(i) The construction and management of municipal public toilets;

(ii) Oversight inspections for the management of public toilets in society;

(iii) The determination and regulation of the agreement on public toilets.

Sections such as the planning of land, finance, development reform, the living environment, housing construction and water services are governed by the law in accordance with their respective responsibilities.

Chapter II Planning and construction

Article 7. The municipal authorities shall plan with the city to plan public toilets in the city.

It was encouraged to build public toilets using space planning such as public greenfields and bridges.

The construction of municipal public facilities, such as garbage transit stations, should be accompanied by planning for the construction of public toilets.

Public sites such as communes, shores, railway stations, airport, physical tourism facilities, hospitals, parks, public greenfields, wards, commercial facilities, financial telecommunications operators, fuel stations, tourist sites, agency units externally open regional places should be planned to support the construction of public toilets.

The planning and design of public toilets should be in compliance with national technical standards and the requirements of the Small Environment Facility Planning and Design Guidelines in Johannesburg.

The municipal public toilets should plan to build on the streets and the low floors and coordinate with the surrounding environment.

The proportion of men and women's toilets is well established and the number of female toilets in public toilets is appropriately increased.

Article IX, in line with the planning of public toilets, should be designed, accompanied by construction works, as well as at the same time as the construction of project subjects, with funds needed to be included in the overall investment in construction projects.

In accordance with the plan, construction projects should be accompanied by the construction of public toilets, the design of which does not contain public toilets or the design of public toilets is not designed to meet planning requirements, and the planning of the land sector does not conduct construction engineering planning permits.

In accordance with Article 10, the construction of public toilets should be aligned with the planning process, the planning of the land-use sector has found that public toilets that are not matched by the construction of public toilets or accompanying construction are not allowed to plan and design requirements.

Pursuant to planning requirements, the construction of public toilets should be transferred to the authorities, but the related handover procedures have not yet been processed and the planning of the land sector is not through the planning process.

Article 11. The construction of public toilets should give priority to the use of green construction materials, the installation of energy lighting systems, and the use of water-based sanitation devices.

Article 12 In the area covered by the urban sewerage network, after the processing of the release of public toilets by septic tanks, may be directly released into the urban sewerage network; in the area where the urban sewerage network has not yet been covered, the release of sewage from public toilets will be subject to the treatment of sewerage facilities to meet the requirements of the surface water quality standards.

Article 13, the municipal public toilets that had been established prior to the implementation of this approach, had not met the standards and technical norms established by the State and the Shenzhen City.

Social public toilets are encouraged to be upgraded by property rights units, which can be adequately subsidized by the people of the region.

Article 14. In public places where it is difficult to build fixed public toilets and human flows, the authorities of the area should be able to maintain a clean service in accordance with the relevant standards.

In carrying out activities such as large cultures, public goods and commerce, existing public toilets cannot meet public demand for toilets, and units should be established on an ad hoc basis for the establishment of a public toilet facility, which is required under the relevant standards.

No unit or individual shall be allowed to take over the planned place, use or change the use of public toilets without prejudice to the construction of the planned public toilets.

Chapter III Management and maintenance

Article 16 provides free access to the public.

Social public toilets should be open to the public in the service of their public places of origin.

Article 17, in regions where public latrines are severely inadequate and difficult to plan new public toilets, the village of a population-intensive town, can be upgraded or adequately subsidized by local authorities in accordance with the actual needs of the services agreement with the relevant units.

It should establish clear maps and guides that are open free of charge within the framework of the agreement.

Article 18 The municipal authorities should produce an electronic map and information manual for all municipal toilets to facilitate timely access by the public to public toilets, including through public telephone service platforms, handicrafts, computers.

Public toilet property units should establish clear maps and guides to public use, in accordance with the standard setting requirements for access to public toilets and their surrounding regions.

The day-to-day maintenance and clean-up of public toilets is the responsibility of their property rights units.

Regional authorities can maintain the management of municipal public toilets entrusted to professional service agencies through open and fair competition, such as tendering, recruitment, etc.

The property rights unit should provide public oversight by demonstrating open time, sanitation quality standards, management responsibilities, supervision of maintenance information such as telephones.

Article 20

(i) wind, light and good;

(ii) No surface water, slogan, cigarette, paper, etc.;

(iii) There is no apparent indignity;

(iv) Instructions, blends and sediments in the machinery;

(v) equipped with washing devices, pyrethroids, spoilers, etc.;

(vi) Other requirements for the management of technical standards and norms by public toilets.

Article 21 Governments should guarantee the maintenance of municipal public toilets, the rehabilitation of existing public toilets and the agreement on the operation of public toilets.

The authorities should establish a public toilet system for monitoring inspections and evaluation. In order to be incompatible with the maintenance of management requirements, the authorities should ensure that the property rights units are corrected in a timely manner.

Article 23 should be used by public toilets against the following offences:

(i) Dispelling, inclinating and posting in walls, facilities;

(ii) Search, smoking, inclination;

(iii) dumping of slander, ponds, septics and wastes in the yard;

(iv) Injury.

No units or individuals shall be allowed to stop or dismantle public toilets without disrupting public toilets and their subsidiary facilities.

For reasons such as failure of facilities, temporary suspension of public toilets should be required, and the property rights units should demonstrate time for suspension and be repaired in a timely manner.

Over 72 hours, the property rights unit should report the district authorities and adopt ways to address public needs, such as near-constructed public toilets.

As a result of the need for urban construction to dismantle public toilets, construction units should initially propose re-engineering programmes that seek advice from the district authorities to be reported in accordance with the prescribed procedures. Public latrines are not subject to pre-existing standards.

Article 25 Emergency sites for disaster risk reduction should be reserved for emergency public toilets, electricity, drainage, storage of equipment, such as activities-based public toilets, and emergency services in a timely manner.

Chapter IV Legal responsibility

Article 26 In violation of this approach by the relevant management and its staff, the administration of justice is held in accordance with the law, without the fulfilment of their statutory responsibilities, and is suspected to be committed to the judiciary.

Article 27, in violation of article 16 and article 17 of this scheme, provides that public toilets' property units receive fees or are not open within the prescribed time frame, are converted by district authorities to a fine of 500 dollars; and are fined at the end of the year.

Article 28, in violation of article 18, paragraph 2, and article 19, paragraph 3, of this scheme, provides that the property unit of the public toilet is not subject to the provision of a guiding mark or to public information, which is subject to the time limit of the order of the district authorities, with a fine of 500 dollars; and a fine of $0.4 million is not later than being corrected.

Article 29, in violation of article 20 of this approach, provides that the management of public toilets does not meet the prescribed standards and requirements, is subject to a fine of 500 dollars for the duration of the treasury of the property rights unit, and a fine of US$ 2000 for a period of time.

Article 33, in violation of article 23 of this approach, provides for the non-civilization of the use of public toilets, which is fined by 100 heads of district authorities; the law, regulations, etc., from their provisions.

In violation of article 24, paragraph 1, of the present approach, the unauthorized suspension of public toilets, the rehabilitation of the use by district authorities, a fine of $500 per day per day of spontaneous use; the unauthorized dismantlement of public toilets, the reconstruction of the period of time by district authorities, a fine of $2 million, a fine of $50,000 that was overdue.

In violation of article 24, paragraph 1, of the present approach, damage to public toilets and their subsidiary facilities should be compensated for losses and be fined by the District Authority of 2000; alleged violations of the administration of the security sector are transferred to the public security authority by law; and the alleged offence is transferred to the judiciary by law.

Chapter V

Article 32