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The closure of streets and squares in anti-COVID-19 it can also be decided only for certain days of the week and alternatively you can also use the “closed numberRegarding the controls of the fulfillment of the chosen measures, the Quaestors will decide on the use of the police and the use of the army is also foreseen when it is already present in the territory as part of the Safe Roads operation. what circular sent by the Ministry of the Interior to the Prefects on the subject “curfew“.
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The definition of public force, which will be used to carry out the closing services for squares and streets decided by the last Dpcm, must be “the subject of a specific technical coordination meeting that the Quaestors will organize with the police and other actors.” territorial security, also with the purpose of identifying the rates of the Local Police that will integrate the device “, reads the circular of the Ministry of the Interior. The implementation of these measures, it is also highlighted, can “benefit from the contribution of military units, when they are present in the context of the Safe Roads operation, also after a redesign of the plan for the use of forces already available.”
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The closure of squares and streets that will be available to counteract the contagion of Covid could lead to restrictions that are applied “only on certain days of the week”, those “characterized by a more intense influx of people,” explains the circular. “Due to the need to limit the effects of the measure in proportion to what is considered necessary to achieve the objectives of the Dpcm, the provision may also provide for a partial closure of the streets or squares, that is, restrict access without totally prohibiting it , with the admissions fee “.
And again: the closure of streets or squares to stop the spread of the Covid will have to be implemented with orders from the mayor, but urban spaces with the highest risk of overcrowding must be evaluated with “the competent health prevention structures.” And the implementation of this intervention “will then require the widest collaboration between the mayor and the prefect.”
The circular recalls that the Dpcm of April 26, 2020 “temporarily attributed to the mayor the power to order the closure of specific areas in which it was not possible to guarantee interpersonal distancing.” And that article 1, paragraph 9, of the decree-law of May 16, 2020, n. 33 (reconverted, with amendments, by law n.74 of July 14, 2020) “has granted the Mayor the power to order the temporary closure of specific public areas or areas open to the public in which it is impossible to adequately guarantee compliance with the interpersonal safety distance of at least one meter. ” Not only that: “taking into account that the intervention aims to mitigate the risk of contagion by COVID-19, and that, therefore, its inspiring purpose lies in the protection of public health, the related declination tool will be identified in the ordinances of the Mayor, as a local health authority ”, also in application of the Consolidated Law on the organization of local administrations.
Municipalities must inform both trade associations and interested citizens of the closure of squares and streets with “adequate means of communication.” The measure must “be anticipated promptly” since “free access to commercial establishments and private homes, and the consequent exit, must still be allowed.”
To avoid other “elusive behaviors” in the time limits of public establishments introduced with the Dpcm of October 13, 2020, it has now been “duly” established “that the activity of public establishments is allowed from 5 to 24 with drinks in the table, and from 5 am to 6 pm (and no longer at 9 pm) in the absence of consumption at the table “, underlines the Circular de Viminale, reiterating however that” what has already been clarified about the allowed margin of ‘exceeded the aforementioned deadlines. ”The message is that those who exceed this limit will not be penalized, as is already the case with those who extend to a maximum of a few minutes.
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