Caterers obliged to announce extension of working hours

The Decision on working hours in certain activities also stipulates the working hours of facilities where catering activities are performed. According to this decision, catering facilities, including summer gardens, as well as freestanding open gardens, can operate until 12 AM at the latest, it was announced from the Municipality of Centar, reports the BH News Agency Patria.

- If a caterer decides for a specific reason to work after 12 AM, they are obliged to notify the First Police Administration – Centar Police Station in writing, and in catering facilities located in residential and residential-commercial buildings, also the representative of the apartment owners. The notification must necessarily contain the reasons for extending the working hours – state the Municipality.

Given that the 20th jubilee Sarajevo Film Festival will be held from August 15 to 23, 2014, owners of all facilities intending to extend their working hours are obliged to act in accordance with the aforementioned decision.

- Failure to act in accordance with the above constitutes a violation by the caterer, for which a fine is prescribed. The provisions of the Decision do not apply to night clubs and bars, disco clubs and bars (except for those located in residential-commercial buildings of collective housing) – state the Municipality.

In accordance with the Decision on violations of public order and peace, broadcasting live music or using music reproduction devices is permitted in the period from April 1 to November 1. In residential and residential-commercial buildings, including gardens in front of catering facilities, as well as in freestanding open gardens, music broadcasting is allowed from 7 AM to 11 PM, and in commercial buildings and other commercial facilities indoors from 6 AM to 12 AM, while in the gardens of these catering facilities, music broadcasting is allowed from 7 AM to 11 PM, reports Patria.