Monrovia City Corporation and the Montserrado Bar Association Reach Historic Agreement to Revise City Regulations

MONROVIA, LIBERIA: In an unflinching move to purge Monrovia’s municipal system of outdated legal frameworks, the Monrovia City Corporation (MCC) has secured a comprehensive technical-assistance commitment from the Montserrado County Bar Association to review, revise, and modernize every existing city ordinance, a collaboration formally unveiled after a closed-door engagement between City Hall and the county’s foremost legal fraternity over the weekend.

By: Abraham Sylvester Panto

The partnership mandates a joint legal task force that will comb through decades-old municipal bylaws, many drafted before post-war urban realities emerged, aligning them with contemporary land-use standards, waste-management norms, commercial-permit protocols, and public-safety benchmarks.

Taking to his social media handle, Monrovia City Mayor John-Charuk Siafa disclosed that the review phase commences next week with a complete codification audit, during which Bar Association attorneys will map inconsistencies, identify outdated sanctions, and draft red-line amendments for council debate, thereby compressing a process that previously lingered for years into a 120-day reform window.

Acknowledging widespread public frustration over ordinances either too ambiguous to prosecute or too archaic to deter violations, Mayor Siafa emphasized that no clause will survive purely out of tradition.

Early drafts will circulate to civil-society watchdogs, market unions, and community leaders through town-hall sessions scheduled across all seventeen zoning districts, thereby institutionalizing public consultation and insulating the process from the perception of legal elitism.

By synchronizing city rules with national judicial precedents and regional urban-planning guidelines, the reform is expected to cut case backlogs in the Monrovia City Court, strengthen fine-collection efficiency, and raise investor confidence through clearer commercial-licensing provisions.