Repair Laws
The Town Hall of San Antonio is to introduce a new law which will oblige property owners to keep their buildings in good order.
The law, which is to be launched at the end of the year, will give the administration the right to fine those proprietors whose buildings are kept in a poor state of repair, aesthetically not pleasing, and present a risk to public safety. The councillor in charge, Josefa Costa, said that the main purposes of the law would be to ensure people were safe in rented properties, and that the beauty of the town was not thwarted by poorly maintained buildings.
Costa revealed the fines would vary between €300 and €3,000 and that people would be continually fined until they made the necessary repairs. If this did not happen, then the administration would have the right to put an embargo on the building or even confiscate it.