Criminal Law
Mostafa Jafari; Hassan Alipour
Abstract
The municipality, as a prominent item of the public law legal person, sometimes on one hand violates the provisions of urban planning by granting licenses, causes the structure of high buildings and the stabilization of air pollution, and on the other hand, as one of the institutions that is obliged ...
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The municipality, as a prominent item of the public law legal person, sometimes on one hand violates the provisions of urban planning by granting licenses, causes the structure of high buildings and the stabilization of air pollution, and on the other hand, as one of the institutions that is obliged to prevent air pollution, with Failure to perform its legal duties will cause and intensify air pollution. Air pollution is one of the main causes of physical injuries (crimes) in Iran. The position of the municipality as a responsible and punishable perpetrator of air pollution crimes depends on establishing a longitudinal link between the conduct of the crime, criminal liability, and ultimately the penal punishment. The municipality, both as a representative and as an activity, shows its behavior in its act and omission form in the perpetration and causation figure in creating air pollution and for this reason, there is no difference between the behavior of a municipality as a legal entity and the behavior of a natural person. However, knowing the municipality as a criminal has two conditions: First, creating a reference relationship between crime and air pollution and then air pollution with municipal action. Second, the existence of elements of criminal responsibility of legal entities. In the absence of any of these two conditions, the behavior of the municipality has no responsibility. Using library sources and descriptive analytical method, this article has come to the conclusion that the criminal responsibility of the municipality for crimes caused by air pollution is possible with the sum of the two aforementioned conditions in Iran's criminal system. The judicial procedure should take a fundamental and innovative approach in order to hold the municipality responsible for its actions within the scope of the municipality's powers and duties.
