3. Why is it important to have a law firm specializing in irrigation communities?
In Spain, around 70% of the water resources available for consumption are required by the irrigation sector. Furthermore, by law, the users of water and any other hydraulic property belonging to the public domain that enjoy the same intake or concession must form irrigation communities.
The latter are defined as groupings of all the owners and users of an irrigation area, bound together by law, for the autonomous and common management of public waters, not for profit. It is a specific irrigable area that enjoys a water concession to irrigate this surface. In other words, the water concession is granted to the land and not to the members of the community who own it. Therefore, in the event that a community owner sells his land, he would transfer with it the right that corresponds to the land.
However, it is important to have a law firm specializing in irrigation communities to be able to know the functioning of this type of public law entities, as well as the rights of enjoyment and the obligations deriving from the concession.
Likewise, the Law allows the transfer of the right to use water on a temporary basis between users of equal or higher legal rank, therefore, to exercise this right, it is necessary to have a Lawyer specializing in irrigation communities advise on restrictions and conditions that must be met to temporarily transfer water use.
Also, having a advocate in irrigation communities As a permanent councilor of this type of society, he is essential for the development of essential issues for the life of an irrigated community, such as: drafting irrigation agreements, internal ordinances and statutes of irrigation communities; water rights assignment agreements between community members; intervention of the Irrigation Juries; participation in administrative enforcement procedures for the collection of fees …
The irrigated communities, as we have anticipated, are bodies governed by public law, annexed to the Organization of the Basin. Precisely for this public nature, the law attributes to it a series of prerogatives the use and enjoyment of which it requires a Office of advocates in irrigation communities to advise you in the exercise of the same. Some of these prerogatives are: being beneficiaries of forced expropriation, they can exercise police functions and impose sanctions within their scope and competence, and can claim their debts enforceable.
However, like any community, the law requires the drafting of statutes with a series of minimum contents to regulate their functioning. In this task of establishing and organizing the irrigation community, it is very useful to have the participation and advice of a Lawyer specializing in irrigation communities to ensure the correct drafting and approval of the same.
The importance of having a advocate in irrigation communities guarantees the correct internal composition of the same with the constitution of each of its bodies (Council or General Assembly; Board of Directors and executive body; Irrigation Jury; President and Secretary).
Finally, having a lawyer expert on the subject means the constant availability of a complete legal consultancy service capable of resolving any kind of doubt that may arise in the functioning and life of the irrigation community.
4. Management attorneys as specialists in irrigation communities
In Administrativando Abogados we have a department of community irrigation lawyers with extensive professional careers in the most relevant studies and dedicated to the knowledge of hydraulic law. They aspire to be among the best community irrigation lawyers and in administrative law, in general.
Our team of lawyers acts throughout Spain and remains at your disposal to address your questions with the utmost speed, professionalism and specialization.
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