The Saudi Commission for Tourism andNational Heritage (SCTH) has published on its website of the Sauditourist visa application 19 violations based on the common sense regulation,and the fines to be issued by the police officers after the violator is caught.
The common sense regulation identified 19 offenses punishable by financial fines ranging from SAR50 to SAR3,000.
Violations provided in the common sense regulation include wearing inappropriate costume in public places or those that carry slogans, pictures or forms that are indecent, racist , or which contribute to inciting strife, or promote pornography and drug abuse, in addition to placing posters, distributing commercial leaflets in public places without a license, setting fire to parks and public places in places other than those permitted, and uttering vulgar words, bringing harmful act, or endanger the public.
The regulation also categorizedbypassing waiting queues in public places other than the exempted casesdetermined by the concerned party to violate the common sense, and the use ofharmful lighting such as lasers and the like, to harm the public or lead toscare or endanger them.
The direct filming of personswithout their permission or the filming of criminal, traffic, or accidentalincidents without the permission of the parties to the violation are alsoclassified as common sense violations, which requires the perpetrators to pay afine and delete the photographs taken in violation.
The common sense regulationcategorized writing or drawing on transportation or on the walls of publicplaces without a license as a punishable offense. Similarly, those who putexpressions or images that provoke racism or pornography or abuse of drugs willbe fined.
Other irregularities include abusivebehavior involving sexual acts, raising the sound of music in residentialneighborhoods, playing music during Adhaan (Islamic call to worship, recited by the muezzin at prescribedtimes of the day), and dumping waste in places other than thosedesignated for them.
The regulation also includesoccupying seats and facilities for the elderly and people with special needs,and overcoming barriers to access to public places.
The regulations concerning themechanism of application of the common sense regulation stipulated that eachperson affected by any of the violations stated may claim his own right. Whilethe disciplines granted the offender the right toappeal to the common sense service in the competent administrative courts.
