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Obligations of the Community of Owners

The Community of Owners (CO) is obliged to make all the required building works for the due maintenance and conservation of the building and its services, so it will keep the required structural, tightness, habitability and safety conditions.
At the other hand, those owners who oppose or delay the execution of the Authority requirements, will be individually responsible of the sanctions that may be imposed by the Administration. Therefore, for instance, if the building is about to fall down and the Town Hall requires the reparation, if there is a reticent neighbour and this makes the Community not obey, this neighbour will be liable, individually, of the sanction that may be imposed by the Town Hall.

The improvements in the building
No owner can demand new installations, services or improvements in the building which are not necessary for the needed conservation, habitability and safety of the building (i.e. - To change the front door of the building entrance for a more fashionable one… etc.)
If community decisions for the installation of unnecessary things are reached and the instalment to pay them is over 3 ordinary monthly instalments for common expenses, the neighbour who doesn’t agree with them, is not obliged to pay them, and his/her community monthly instalment cannot be increased or changed, even when it is impossible to deprive him/her of the improvement made by the Community.
If the deprivation is possible and later on the dissident neighbour wants to take advantage of the improvements, he will have to pay his instalment on the expenses related to the installation and maintenance, dully updated, applying the corresponding legal interest.
Innovations which turn useless any part of the building for any neighbour will always require the express consent of this specific owner.

 

 
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