Civil and criminal liability of municipalitiesFor urban environmental hazards caused by medical waste

One of the issues in environmental health is the collection, disposal and burial of medical waste, which in case of incorrect actions can become one of the serious urban environmental problems, therefore municipalities as A non-governmental public law institution in performing the duties of providing services to the people may lead to some damages in this field, and therefore the principle of justice requires that individuals, both legal and real, have civil and criminal responsibility for their behavior.

The present research was carried out using a descriptive and analytical method.

In the civil responsibility of the municipality for urban environmental hazards caused by medical waste due to personal fault, the employee of the municipality is obliged to compensate the damage from his own property, and in the case of administrative error, the municipality is held responsible, and when the damage is caused by the fault If it is personal and an administrative error, the rule of administrative solidarity of the employee will also cause responsibility, while looking at Article 2 of the Executive Regulations of the Waste Management Law, the organs are also involved in this matter, and in determining the dimensions of civil responsibility of the municipalities, the fault of other organs should be The issue of wastes was also considered for a better evaluation, in the criminal responsibility of the municipality,