Administrative Resolution No. (361) of 2019

Issuing the Implementing Bylaw of Law No. (22) of 2006

Concerning the Traffic Toll in the Emirate of Dubai^{^[1]}

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The Director General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the Roads and Transport Authority,

After perusal of:
Law No. (17) of 2005 Establishing the Roads and Transport Authority and its amendments;

Law No. (22) of 2006 Concerning the Traffic Toll in the Emirate of Dubai and its amendments;

Executive Council Resolution No. (19) of 2010 Approving the Fees and Fines Related to the Traffic Toll Law of the Emirate of Dubai;

Executive Council Resolution No. (8) of 2006 Establishing the Agencies Affiliated to the Roads and Transport Authority and Approving their Corporate and Organisational Structures;

Executive Council Resolution No. (47) of 2018 Approving the Organisational Structure of the Roads and Transport Authority; and

Administrative Resolution No. (311) of 2007 Issuing the Implementing Bylaw of Law No. (22) of 2006 Concerning the Traffic Toll in the Emirate of Dubai,

Does hereby issue this Resolution.

Definitions

Article (1)

The following words and expressions, wherever mentioned in this Resolution, will have the meaning indicated opposite each of them unless the context implies otherwise:

RTA:	The Roads and Transport Authority.
Law:	Law No. (22) of 2006 Concerning the Traffic Toll in the Emirate of Dubai.
TRA:	The Traffic and Roads Agency of the RTA.
Motor Vehicle:	This includes motorcycles, light vehicles, heavy vehicles, light buses, heavy buses, light mechanical equipment, and heavy mechanical equipment.
Salik System:	The electronic Traffic Toll system adopted by the RTA in which Motor Vehicles are registered for the purposes of passing through Traffic Toll Gates and managing User accounts in accordance with the Law and this Resolution.
Traffic Toll:	The amount paid by a road user upon passing through a Traffic Toll Gate.
Traffic Toll Gate:	A location where special technical equipment is installed, allowing the prescribed Traffic Toll amount to be deducted from the balance of the Traffic Toll Tag of any Motor Vehicle passing through this location without the need to stop the vehicle.
Traffic Toll Tag:	An electronic tag which is affixed to a Motor Vehicle and contains all the information related to that vehicle, and which allows Toll Gate equipment to deduct the prescribed Traffic Toll amount from its balance.
User:	A natural or legal person who owns a Motor Vehicle registered in the Salik System.
Guidebook:	A guidebook issued by the TRA, which contains all the information related to the Salik System, including the manner in which the Traffic Toll Tag is attached to a Motor Vehicle.
Sales and Fare Collection Centre:	This includes customer and User service centres of the RTA or of any other entity contracted by the RTA.
Master Account:	The electronic account that the RTA provides to a User who is registered in the Salik System. This account contains the details of the User and of his Motor Vehicle(s), and enables the User to manage the financial transactions related to the vehicles registered under this account.
Sub-account:	A subordinate account of a Master Account, which is provided by the RTA to a User, upon his request, to register certain Motor Vehicles therein and to manage the financial transactions related to these vehicles.

Registration in the Salik System

Article (2)

An owner of a Motor Vehicle wishing to pass through Traffic Toll Gates must register in the Salik System through a Sales and Fare Collection Centre, or through a website or smart application adopted by the RTA.

Traffic Toll Tag

Article (3)

A User may register an indefinite number of Motor Vehicles under his Master Account or Sub-account. Each of these Motor Vehicles will be issued with a Traffic Toll Tag that may not be used on any other Motor Vehicles.

Topping up User Accounts

Article (4)

a. A User’s account may be topped up through a Sales and Fare Collection Centre, or through a website or smart application adopted by the RTA.

b. A User’s account may be topped up with a minimum of fifty Dirhams (AED 50.00), or multiples thereof.

Obligations of Users

Article (5)

To ensure his compliance with the Law, and the resolutions issued in pursuance thereof, and avoid any penalty or other punitive measure, a User must:

1. affix a Traffic Toll Tag to his Motor Vehicle in the proper manner and in the designated place, as stated in the Guidebook, before passing through any of the Traffic Toll Gates or any other alternative toll system adopted by the RTA;

2. regularly update his account information and data;

3. where the ownership of his Motor Vehicle is transferred to another owner, apply for cancellation of his Traffic Toll Tag through the channels made available by the RTA, and remove the tag from the vehicle;

4. comply with the instructions and requirements stipulated in the Guidebook; and

5. activate the Traffic Toll Tag, upon Subscription to the Salik System, through the channels adopted by the RTA and in accordance with the instructions set forth in the Guidebook.

Traffic Toll Gate Operational Timings

Article (6)

Traffic Toll Gates will be operational round the clock all days of the week.

Grace Periods

Article (7)

a. The owner of a Motor Vehicle which passes through a Traffic Toll Gate without being registered in the Salik System will be granted a grace period of ten (10) days from the date of passing through the gate for the first time. If the Vehicle Owner fails to subscribe to the Salik System within this grace period, he will be deemed to have committed the violation of passing through the Traffic Toll Gate without payment of the prescribed toll fee and will incur the relevant prescribed fine.

b. A User who passes through a Toll Gate without having sufficient balance in his Salik System account will be granted a grace period of five (5) days, commencing from the date of passing through the gate, to top up his Salik System account. If the User fails to top up his account within this grace period, he will be deemed to have committed the violation of passing through the Traffic Toll Gate with insufficient account balance and will incur the relevant prescribed fine.

Challenges

Article (8)

a. A User, or his legal representative, may challenge any penalty imposed on him in accordance with the Law and the resolutions issued in pursuance thereof. The challenge will be submitted through a website or smart application adopted by the RTA. The right to challenge a penalty will lapse upon renewal of the Motor Vehicle registration or upon expiry of a period of thirteen (13) months from the date of imposition of the penalty, whichever comes first.

b. The TRA must revoke the penalty where the validity of the User’s challenge is established.

Exemption from Compliance with the Law

Article (9)

In addition to the Motor Vehicles to which the Law does not apply, as set forth therein, the provisions of the Law will not apply to the following Motor Vehicles:

1. up to five hundred (500) Motor Vehicles of the Ministry of Interior which bear its logo;

2. the Motor Vehicles of the State Security Authority;

3. heavy buses, with a seating capacity of at least twenty-six (26) passengers, which are designated for transporting the employees of any Government Entity that has at least one hundred (100) employees using these buses;

4. the Motor Vehicles owned by the public-benefit associations and foundations licensed by the competent Government Entities, as approved by the RTA;

5. the Motor Vehicles of the centres for rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities which are licensed by the competent Government Entities; and

6. the Motor Vehicles designated for use by Persons with Disabilities.

Repeals

Article (10)

The above-mentioned Administrative Resolution No. (311) of 2007 and its amendments are hereby repealed. Any provision in any other administrative resolution will also be repealed to the extent that it contradicts the provisions of this Resolution.

Publication and Commencement

Article (11)

This Resolution will be published in the Official Gazette and will come into force on the day on which it is published.

Mattar Mohammed Al Tayer

Director General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors

Roads and Transport Authority

Issued in Dubai on 30 May 2019

Corresponding to 25 Ramadan 1440 A.H.

[1]Every effort has been made to produce an accurate and complete English version of this legislation. However, for the purpose of its interpretation and application, reference must be made to the original Arabic text. In case of conflict, the Arabic text will prevail.