Fine – Local regulations – APV 2020

Local regulations (APV) and any fines or sanctions that municipalities can impose in the event of violation in 2020. A number of matters that regulate social traffic can be laid down by the municipality in a local ordinance. This includes causing nuisance, organizing street parties, public use of alcohol, improper use of a shopping cart, leaving waste lying around, letting dogs run loose. Although enforcement of the rules will not have the same priority within every municipality, the fines for violation of these rules can be quite high for everyone.

Local regulations – APV

The General Local Ordinance – referred to in short as APV – contains the municipal regulations in the field of public order and safety within the municipality. Not all laws and regulations are established nationally – in The Hague. In addition to the national rules that apply everywhere in the Netherlands, the necessary matters can also be arranged in the APVs at municipal level by the municipal council, municipal executive or the mayor.

APV – The municipality decides

Many general matters that are important for the quality of life in the municipality can then be regulated in the General Local Regulation. The VNG, the trade association for municipalities, issues a kind of model/advisory APV, but ultimately every APV can differ. Each municipality has its own APV. You can usually find this on the websites of the municipalities in question. The rules in the APVs apply to everyone who lives, works or is located within the municipality.

Stop in case of violation

In the event of a violation of a rule regulated in an APV, you must be stopped if a violation has been discovered by an authorized official. The competent official must include your name and address details.

Name and address details – Name, Address, City

In most cases, the name and address details are supplemented with further information about the location, time, nature of the violation and the like. Before an official report is drawn up for one of the violations, the competent official must ensure that the offense is punishable in the locally applicable ordinance (APV) of the municipality in question.

Local ordinance fine – APV 2020

The road – The concept of road
APV – Nuisance caused by a dog
APV – Installing bicycles, mopeds and mopeds
APV – Drinking under 18 years of age
APV – Behavior in public space
APV – Behavior on and near the road
APV – Rowdy and/or disruptive behavior
APV – Permits

The road – The concept of road

When a violation occurs on the road, you have to think about more than just the street or roadway. A road runs from ,garden to garden, or from ,ditch to ditch,. This also includes sidewalks, footpaths, pedestrian areas, cycle paths and parking lots and parking areas.
When the road is mentioned, the road is meant as described in the Road Traffic Act.

The concept gone

The Road Act does not provide a definition of the term. The definition from the Road Traffic Act 1994 is:
,All roads or paths open to public traffic, including the bridges and culverts located therein and the paths and verges or sides belonging to those roads,

APV – Nuisance caused by a dog

As an owner or keeper of a dog:

Offence	Fine in euros
Allowing a dog to stay or walk on a road within a built-up area without the dog being on a leash.	95
Allowing a dog to stay or walk in a children’s playground, sandbox, playing field or other place designated by the council that is accessible to the public and is apparently equipped as such.	140
Allowing a dog to stay or walk in a place outside built-up areas designated by the Board without the dog being on a leash.	95
Allowing a dog to stay or walk on a road without the dog being provided with an identification mark that clearly identifies the owner or keeper of the dog.	95
Allowing a dog to stay or walk on a road without carrying a proper means of removing feces and/or not showing this means to the official responsible for supervision upon first request.	95
Failure to ensure that the dog’s feces are cleaned up on a section of road (partly) intended for pedestrians (this does not concern a place designated by the Board where dogs are allowed)	140
Allowing a dog to stay or walk in a public place or on someone else’s property while this dog is not on a short leash after notification from the mayor or the council.	240
Allowing a dog to stay or walk in a public place or on someone else’s property while the dog is not kept on a short leash and muzzled after notification by the mayor or the council.	240
Allowing a dog to stay or walk in a public place or on someone else’s property without this dog being provided with a readable microchip with a unique identification number that has been provided in connection with the dog’s behavior.	240
Using a recreational area with the dog in violation of the provisions applicable to that area. (being outside the designated area during a prohibited period)	95

APV – Installing bicycles, mopeds and mopeds

A bicycle in a public place. place or leave a moped or moped against a window, window frame, door or facade of a building or in the entrance to a porch:

Offence	Fine in euros
Contrary to the expressly stated will of the user of that building or porch.	45
In such a way that that entrance is blocked.	45
Leaving a bicycle or moped unattended in a place designated by the council outside the designated areas or places.	45
At times and/or places designated by the council or the mayor, you are riding a bicycle or moped on an area designated by the council or the mayor where a market, fair, performance, meeting or ceremony is being held that attracts the public.	45

APV – Drinking under 18 years of age

Offence	Fine in euros
As a person who has reached the age of 18, consume alcoholic beverages in a public place that is part of an area designated by the council.	95
As a person who has reached the age of 18, in a public place that is part of an area designated by the council, carry bottles, cans, etc. containing alcoholic beverages that have been opened.	95

APV – Behavior in public space

As a person:

Offence	Fine in euros
Use consumer fireworks in a place designated by the council where this use is prohibited.	100
Using consumer fireworks in a public place even though they may cause danger, damage or nuisance	100
Relieving one’s natural needs in a built-up area in a public place outside a designated area.	140
Place or keep camping equipment outside a designated camping area for the purpose of recreational overnight accommodation.	140
Outside roads or paths located in/on parks, walking areas, public gardens, green areas or lawns maintained by the municipality are located without being authorized to do so.	45
Using a recreational area contrary to the provisions applicable to that area other than for the purpose of daytime recreation.	140
Disposing of household waste other than in the prescribed manner.	45
Search and distribute waste or collection materials that are ready for collection.	140
Perform actions that may create litter.	140
Leaving or dumping environmentally harmful substances.	390
Store or have stored waste in a place visible to the public in the open air and outside an establishment within the meaning of the Environmental Management Act.	240
Placing or having a vehicle wreck on the road.	390
As an owner/license plate holder, dispose of a car wreck other than by handing it over to an institution.	390
Operating appliances or noise devices outside an establishment or performing actions that cause noise nuisance to a local resident or the surrounding area.	140
Smoking in a forest, on heathland, peat land, in dune areas or within a distance of thirty meters thereof during a period designated by the council during which this is not permitted.	140
Throw away, drop or leave burning or smoldering objects in the open air.	280
Build, stoke or have a fire in the open air.	280

APV – Behavior on and near the road

Use the road or a section of road as a person other than in accordance with the public function, when:

Offence	Fine in euros
Damage is inflicted or can be inflicted.	240
The usability of the road is or may be hampered.	240
The management or maintenance of the road is or may be hindered.	240
A shopping cart is left unattended in a public place after use.	95
You are with a shopping cart at a distance greater than the permitted distance from the company that made the shopping cart available.	95
You, as a visitor, are in a public institution after closing time.	95
A public place or that part of an immovable property that is visible from that place is defaced or scratched.	140
In a public place or that part of an immovable property that is visible from that place without written permission from the rightful owner, a placard or other writing, image or indication or any image, letter, number or sign with any material is pasted, or on is applied in some other way.	140
Billboards are used for trade advertising.	140
You, as the holder of a written permission, do not comply with the obligation to make the written permission of the rightful owner available for inspection at the first request of an investigating officer in a public place or part of an immovable property.	95
Any placard, poster, lime, tar, dye or dye or painting tools are transported on the road or public water if you have them with you.	140

APV – Rowdy and/or disruptive behavior

Oneself as a person without reasonable purpose:

Offence	Fine in euros
Climbing or standing on a statue/monument/vehicle/canopy/traffic furniture/construction, etc.	95
Stopping in such a way that unnecessary nuisance or inconvenience is caused to other users or residents of homes nearby that location.	140
Holding up in a porch/gate, sitting/lying on/against a window frame/sill of a building.	95
Other than as a resident or user in a common area of an apartment building, apartment building or publicly accessible building.	95
Stopping in/on a portal, telephone booth, public transport waiting room, parking garage, bicycle shed or other space accessible to the public in a manner that is a nuisance to others.	140
Stopping in/on a portal, telephone booth, public transport waiting room, parking garage, bicycle shed or other space accessible to the public in a manner that is a nuisance to others and contaminating it.	140
Stopping in/on a portal, telephone booth, public transport waiting room, parking garage, bicycle shed or other space accessible to the public in a manner that is inconvenient to others and contaminating it and using it for a purpose other than that for which that space is intended.	95
Stopping near a person, building, caravan or houseboat in order to spy on this person or a person in it.	140
Stop and spy on a building, caravan or houseboat with binoculars or other optical instrument.	140

APV – Permits