Municipal Property Division

This division includes:

• Municipal Private Property Service
• Municipal Public Property Service
• Municipal Facilities Management Service

Duties of the Municipal Property Division

The division manages the Municipality’s private and public property in line with the administrative and legal procedures for all property transactions: sales, acquisitions, exchanges, leases, temporary occupation of municipal public property, land registration, expropriation in the public interest, declassification of public property, delimitation of municipal public property, and orders updating roads, tracks and passages, together with the preparation of the necessary documents (contracts, orders, reports, plans, etc.).

To protect municipal property, the division prepares and updates the “municipal property registers” for private and public property. They contain all information on each property (owner, origin, type, area, land status) and all legal transactions relating to it (lease, sale, purchase, occupation, exchange, etc.). Both registers are sent twice a year to the supervisory authority for approval, as required by law.

The division also prepares the annual programme of property operations (legal procedures and budgeting of costs):

1. valuation of properties;
2. costs of technical files and surveying;
3. registration and land titling costs;
4. notaries’ fees for drawing up deeds;
5. costs of title certificates and survey plans;
6. costs of delimiting municipal property.

Municipal Private Property Service

This service handles:

• acquisitions;
• sales;
• gifts and bequests of property to the Municipality;
• exchanges;
• leases;
• the management of all property transactions;
• land registration;
• expropriation in the public interest;
• preparing and updating the register of municipal private property.

Municipal Public Property Service

This service handles:

• administrative delimitation of municipal public property;
• updating roads, tracks and passages;
• delimiting, classifying and declassifying public property;
• reviewing applications to use or occupy municipal public property;
• preparing and updating the register of municipal property.

Municipal Facilities Management Service

This service manages rents and prepares contracts for:

• municipal markets;
• wholesale markets;
• slaughterhouses;
• grain markets;
• coach stations.

It is also responsible for:

• carrying out procedures and preparing files to regularise the leases of certain commercial premises owned by the Municipality (Central Market, Souk El Houria, Maamora shopping centre, etc.);
• letting commercial premises at the coach station;
• letting commercial premises at the fruit and vegetable wholesale market.