• Forming a committee from the relevant departments in each Secretariat and Municipality, whose task is to study the request to annex streets and pedestrian pathways (internal roads) and merge them into the adjacent plots in accordance with the following regulations and conditions:

  • 1- The street or pathway must be a divider between the properties of the claimant only.

  • 2- The street or pathway must not be of public benefit or have the status of a public utility.

  • 3- The annexation of the street or pathway must not cause harm to any beneficiary thereof.

  • 4- The method that benefits the Secretariat or Municipality must be determined, either sale or compensation.

A representative from the State Property Authority shall be added to the membership of the Committee referred to in paragraph (First) whenever the real estate (street or passage) intended to be merged with the adjacent land plot is part of land that has reverted to the state through expropriation, and a deed has been issued in the name of the State Property Authority.

The Secretariat or the concerned municipality - after the Committee referred to in item (First) verifies the applicability of the mentioned regulations and conditions - shall coordinate with the authorities responsible for utility networks such as (Electricity, Water, Communications, Sewage) to verify the presence of their networks in the street or passage, and obtain their approval regarding integration if present.

The Secretariat or the concerned Municipality - after completing the aforementioned - shall refer the entire file of the annexation request transaction to the Municipal Council for study and to express an opinion thereon.

The concerned municipality shall submit to the competent authority in the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs the complete transaction documents, including the original committee report, the municipal council's observations, the approval of the authorities responsible for utility networks, the applicant's acknowledgment of bearing the transportation costs, the survey report, and the proposed amended plan; for study in preparation for presentation to the Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs.

The Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs or his delegate shall issue a decision including the approval of the adoption of the plan amendment.

The appraisal committee stipulated in the Municipal Real Estate Disposal Regulations shall estimate the value of the sale or compensation.

The Regional Secretary issues a decision including approval of the final appropriation of the plan, after attaching evidence proving the site is free of existing networks.

The Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs - or his delegate - shall issue a decision approving the annexation.