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Construction companies fined for mosquito breeding
1. Construction companies fined for mosquito breeding
Hong
Kong Government, 13 January 2003 Five
construction companies were fined a total of $25,000 for mosquito breeding in
their construction sites at the Fanling Magistracy last Friday (January 10). Details
of the cases are as follows:
| Name
of defendant | Date
of offence | Amount
of fine | Chun
Wo Building Ltd Construction (construction site at Tin Shui Wai Area 108B,Yuen
Long)
| 30-9-2002
| $8,000 |
China
State Construction Engineering (Hong Kong) Ltd
(construction site at Tin Shui
Wai, TL2, Area 13 Yuen Long)
| 23-9-2002 |
$8,000 |
Hong Kong
Construction Company Ltd
(construction site at FSSTL 195, 9 Wo Mun Street,
Fanling)
| 26-8-2002 |
$5,000 |
Hip Hing
Construction Company Ltd
(construction site at DD122, Lot 1747, Tong Yan San
Tsuen, New Ping Shan, Yuen Long)
| 14-8-2002 |
$3,000 |
Prudence
Construction Company Ltd
(construction site at Section 17 of Lot 4433 in DD51,
On Lok Tsuen, Fanling)
| 26-7-2002
| $1,000 |
The prosecutions
were carried out by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) during
routine inspections. A
spokesman for FEHD said the department would conduct regular inspections to construction
sites to prevent the outbreak of dengue fever. Prosecution will be taken out against
site management at once for mosquito breeding. Under
Section 27(3) of Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance, an appointed
contractor of a construction site shall be guilty of an offence if larvae or pupae
of mosquitoes are found in any accumulation of water in the site. The maximum
fine under this law is $25,000 with a daily fine of $450. The
spokesman called on the public to report mosquito problems through the department's
hotline 2868 0000.
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