Law No. 98 regarding the establishment and sanctioning of contraventions of the legal norms of hygiene and public health.

This Law lists the following administrative offences sanctioned with fines in the field of hygiene and public health: (a) non-compliance by legal entities with the clauses imposed by the sanitary notice issued for each individual site, regarding the design, location and execution of constructions and installations of any kind; (b) the operation of any unit without a health authorization; (c) failure to comply with the measures prescribed by the Health Police Inspectorate and the territorial preventive medicine which aim to prevent or combat communicable diseases, accidental intoxications favored and maintained by harmful factors such as a result of the pollution of the living and working environment; and (d) putting into public consumption new assortments of food products not approved by the Ministry of Health, use, by authorized natural and legal persons, for the preparation of soft drinks, culinary products and others, of some water sources without knowing the quality indicators of the respective water. The following shall be considered administrative offences in the field of water supply: (a) failure by legal entities that operate central drinking water supply installations to draw up the regulations for their exploitation and operation, as well as non-compliance with the provisions of a sanitary nature established by the regulations, approved by the territorial sanitary police inspectorate and preventive medicine; (b) failure to ensure the maintenance of cleanliness throughout the entire territory of the central drinking water supply installations, both in the buildings with different installations, as well as on the land of around them; (c) failure to notify the Inspectorate of the Health Police and Territorial Preventive Medicine about breakdowns at the level of central drinking water supply installations, interventions on drinking water networks or regarding the stoppage of water distribution in the network, as well as failure to announce the population on the duration of interruptions in the supply of water; and (d) the use of water that does not comply with the state standards in force for the irrigation of agricultural crops. The following shall be considered administrative offences in the field of domestic waste management: (a) failure to prepare, by the legal entities that exploit the networks of street sewers, of the regulations for their operation and maintenance and non-compliance with the sanitary provisions established by the approved regulation; (b) non-maintenance in a permanent state of operation of internal installations - toilets, bathrooms, sinks, laundries and others – by economic agents, social-cultural institutions, as well as by tenant associations and natural persons; (c) failure to provide units of any kind, tenant associations and individual households with receptacles for the collection of household waste, located in healthy conditions, in specially arranged spaces - rooms of garbage or platforms, maintained connected to the water and sewage network, washed and disinfected in good condition, repaired, numerically sufficient for storing residues for a minimum of 2-3 days; and (d) location and use, for the removal and non-use of household waste, of garbage pits under conditions other than those stipulated by the hygiene norms in force.