If approved by the city assembly, the law would offer engaged couples a legal contract outlining how much a man or woman can recoup if he or she gets jilted at the altar.

The assembly must protect the one accused of murder from the avenger of blood and send him back to the city of refuge to which he fled.

Vehicle assembly, chemicals, cement, paper, timber processing and other industrial sectors, and the neighbouring city of Maracay a common industrial sister cities.