חוק לתיקון פקודת העיריות (הוראת שעה) (תיקון מס' 3), התשע"ו-2015Law for the Amendment of the Municipalities Ordinance (temporary provision) (Amendment No. 3), 2015 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

The Law provides that the temporary provision authorizing local authorities to collect a guarding levy or guarding fee shall be extended until 31 December 2017. In this context, it is established that the funds from the guarding levy and guarding fee shall be managed by the municipal treasurer, in a separate account, and used solely for financing guarding matters. A transitional provision was also established, according to which a local authority may continue to collect a guarding levy or guarding fee higher than the maximum amount permitted, under an auxiliary by-law that was in effect prior to the commencement of the Law, until the end of 2016; provided that by 30 June 2016 an auxiliary by-law approved by the local authority's council, allowing the collection of a guarding levy or guarding fee not exceeding the maximum permitted amount, was brought to the attention of the Minister of the Interior.

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What was said in the plenum

The bill seeks to extend by two additional years the validity of the temporary provision anchoring the authority of a local authority to regulate matters of guarding, security and public order within its area, including the collection of a fee or levy for these services, as a continuation of previous extensions of the provision dating back to 2011. The debate concerns the question of whether it is appropriate to continue imposing the responsibility and financial burden for guarding and security on local authorities and residents, or whether this is a duty that should remain with the central government and the police.

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An automatic summary of the plenum transcripts: the debate on the bill at every reading it was voted on. Arguments are given as the speakers made them; this is not an assessment. The list of speakers comes from the transcript, without a model. Transcripts of the sittings: 1, 2

Reservations to the second reading

2 reservations were filed: proposed changes to the text the committee brought to the second and third reading.

The reservations are intended to shorten the period of applicability of the temporary provision and to add a requirement for discussion in the Knesset Interior and Environmental Protection Committee on the issue of local authorities' power to regulate guarding, security and public order.

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By faction

• Meretz opposition · 2 reservations · 1 member

A joint reservation counts for every faction whose members filed it.

Proposers and reservation numbers are extracted automatically from the committee version, and the count is checked against the numbers printed in it. The descriptions are an automatic summary. The reservation numbers in this document cannot be read as text, so the count was not checked against it automatically. Committee version for the second and third reading (PDF)