The Municipal Court of the First Instance in the National District, located on Barahona Street, has decreed that a 10-storey apartment building located in the Naco section of Santo Domingo, be torn down ? an unprecedented case in Dominican jurisprudence. The construction company responsible for erecting the building has been given until the second week of March to begin demolition, in addition to a fine of RD$3 million in indemnity and an order to assume all court costs. The sentence of judge Jose Madera said that the company was guilty of ?constructing without having obtained the corresponding permits, with said construction causing great damage?.to the complainants.? The judge also declared Municipal Resolution 272, which authorized the illegal construction, null and void. This is a first for the zoning laws that are regularly dodged by construction companies in order to build high-rise apartment buildings in formerly single-home neighborhoods.