Valencia can fine tourism floors with 600,000 euros by assuming the sanctioning competition

Although they were already approved by regional regulations since last year, the Valencia City Council He has already given the green light to the initiative that will assume the ability to inspect and sanction tourist homes with fines of up to 600,000 euros From now on.

The Consistory of the capital has been one of the first to request the delegation of these powers, as allowed by Carlos Mazón himself baptized as ‘Montes Law’which regulates the tourist floors, because it was promoted by the former innovation and tourism console Nuria Montes, ceased after the Dana.

The Plenary of the City of Valencia has unanimously approved on Tuesday to accept the delegation of powers contemplated in the Law of the Valencian Generalitat of Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality of the Valencian Community, which will allow the City Council to fine the illegal activity of the tourist apartments .

The competences provided by regulations include the ability to initiate, instruct and resolve sanctioning procedures in tourism housing and adhere to the Framework Agreement between the Generalitat and the Valencian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, FVMP.

The Valencian government foresaw this formula for those municipalities with both administrative and punitive capacity, that is, with adequate resources of its own local police, to deal with this competition and whenever they considered it appropriate.

The frequent circumstance has been given that All political groups in the Plenary (PP, Compromís, PSPV-PSOE and VOX) have voted in favor of this initiative which will assume the service of the sanctioning procedure established in the regional regulations.

With this legislation, which adds to other measures such as the new ordinance announced by the government of the popular María José Catalá after the proliferation of these accommodations, the Consistory may impose and process fines on illegal tourist use homes, which may be From 10,000 euros to 600,000depending on the seriousness of the sanctioned event.

According to the City Council, these files will be included within the framework of continuous inspection campaigns of illegal activities that were already being carried out.

Warfish pollution in faults

During the Plenary session, only the definitive modification of article 42 of the Municipal Ordinance of Protection against noise pollution has also been approved. The opposition parties, Compromís PSPV-PSOE have refrained.

The approved modification establishes that in The interior of the tents located in the public domain “85 decibels (DB) with limiter and without registrar” (80% of the failures do their activity within the tents) cannot be exceeded. And, in addition, during the celebration of verbenas, discomobiles and other activities with outdoor sound emissions, “the 90 dB cannot be exceeded, and the limiter-registrar will be required.”

Likewise, the recommendation “is also established to respect the neighborhood rest and animal welfare”, not shooting pyrotechnic artifice between 9:00 and 10:00 a.m., unless it is collection of the Fallera Mayor of the Fallera Commission , nor between 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.