Total control or necessary measure?
Complainant Farid Ismayilov told the BBC that the police fined him 30 manats for temporarily staying at his friend’s house and warned him that he will be fined again if he does not register at his place of residence.
“I was fined for staying at my friend’s house”
Farid Ismayilov, who lives in Baku Kalbajar It is registered in Ziveyli village of the district. Although he lives permanently in Sulutepe settlement, Binagadi district of Baku, he was fined for staying several times a month at his friend’s house located in Nasimi district of Baku.
According to him, on January 13, the commissioner fined him in the amount of 30 manats.
“Sometimes I leave work late, sometimes I stay at my friend’s house for 4-5 days a month because of traffic jams. The field commissioner did not believe that I was staying there temporarily, despite my insistence, he did not write a protocol and give me a copy,” Farid Ismayilov told the BBC.
Our interviewee added that the field commissioner warned him that if he does not register at his temporary place, he will be fined from time to time.
Farid Ismayilov to the Ministry of Internal Affairs about the police illegally fining him complaint did.
Elshad Hajiyev, head of the agency’s press service, told BBC News Azerbaijan that if the complainant does not agree with the decision of the police, the ministry will investigate the matter.
“If there is an illegal situation in the given decision, action will be taken in accordance with the legislation, if an abnormal situation is proven, the administrative punishment imposed on the citizen will be canceled,” said Elshad Hajiyev.
In social networks the issue of the police fining citizens for not registering at their place of residence has caused wide discussions.
Some social media users believe that especially since tens of thousands of citizens registered in Baku live in separate cities and regions, this fine will be massive and will cause a number of problems.
Among the problems, it is indicated that thousands of people live on rent, or they may face difficulties in registering at the address where they live due to the lack of a rental agreement or the lack of a legal document of the rental apartment.
According to the information of the State Statistics Committee, the officially registered population of Baku (2.3 million people) is less than the population of the country (101 mln. people) is less than 23 percent.
But the economist Rovshan Aghayev Baku In the study published in the Research Institute, it is said that not only Absheron Taking into account the unregistered people living in the district, the real population is almost 2 times more than the indicator reflected in the statistics.
“The fine must be paid within 40 days”
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Law on Registration of Citizens by Place of Residence and Place of Residence (10– article) announced that it was implemented.
According to this law adopted in 1996, a citizen who wants to live temporarily outside his place of residence for more than 60 days must fill out an application form and submit it to the relevant state body within 7 days after arriving there and be registered at his place of residence.
A person who does not obey the law Azerbaijan According to Article 563 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, administrative responsibility awaits him: he is warned or he is fined in the amount of 30 manats.
Elshad Hajiyev, the spokesman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, told BBC News Azerbaijan the police authorities were instructed to warn citizens who break the law first, and the same next time law in case of violation, they will be fined.
Elshad Hajiyev said that the fined person must pay the fine within 40 days, and if that person does not register at his place of residence and this is discovered again later, he will be fined again.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs issued a statement on Tuesday saying that it is difficult to find a citizen who is not registered at his address:
“Another reason why research is necessary military “Difficulty in finding those persons when considering applications received from relevant state institutions regarding mobilization, social benefits, compulsory insurance, marriage, divorce and other issues.”
The spokesperson of the Ministry of Interior said that people living in undocumented houses will remain in the area until they get their houses registered the police they can inform the authorities and state their address.
“They should apply with the documents they have: municipal documents, whatever documents they have about their children going to school. The goal is to implement this regulation, to clarify it,” said Elshad Hajiyev.
The spokesperson of the ministry said that the issue of registration by place of residence also applies to students. They can apply to the police authorities in the area where they live.
Elshad Hajiyev emphasized that law has always been applied since its adoption, and according to him, “now a group of people, those who rent their houses to many people, in social networks spread and attract attention”.
The spokesperson of the ministry said that there are no statistics on how many people have been warned or fined for violating this law.
“There are similar rules in other countries of the world. In our country, if a person is going to stay for 60 days, he must inform about it. If there will be 58-59 days left, he may inform about it and not register, and that’s it law it does not belong to him. This does not apply to those who come and go in short periods of time, those who work seasonally,” said Elshad Hajiyev.
“Registration is the citizen’s own responsibility”
How will the police determine that a person has been living at his address for more than 60 days?
Elshad Hajiyev, spokesman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, said that the police does not have a special mechanism to determine where and how long citizens should live.
He believes that it is his responsibility for a citizen who has changed his place of residence for at least 60 days to inform the local police about this.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs said that a citizen who wants to live outside his permanent place of residence for more than 60 days must apply with the required documents to the police authority of the area where he will live within 7 working days after arriving at that place. When a citizen leaves his place of residence, the police authority temporarily deregisters him.
According to Elshad Hajiyev, the online form of the application is planned and the ministry will announce it to the public in the near future.