Re:Barcelona Fines Landlords Who Let Buildings Sit Empty
by NeedMoreTea on Monday March 18, 2019 @09:06PM
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The aim of laws is compliance. If the low and medium fines of previous years have failed to achieve compliance, and fines eventually escalate to high, I'd argue it's far from excessive. If it were excessive a much lower amount would have achieved general compliance with that particular law, would it not?
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Re:Barcelona Fines Landlords Who Let Buildings Sit Empty
by lallysingh on Monday March 18, 2019 @11:40PM
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Our regular human ideas for excessive don't count. There's a legal standard there. I don't know it.
Re:Barcelona Fines Landlords Who Let Buildings Sit Empty
by lazyasciiart on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @12:30AM
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Nobody does, really. It has to be defined in context of the 'gravity of the offence'. I'm sure someone could make a good argument that 1% of the value of a property is reasonable.
Re:Barcelona Fines Landlords Who Let Buildings Sit Empty
by londons_explore on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @04:02AM
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As a 'fine', 100 or even 200 percent of a property could be argued reasonable. 'You aren't using this property as the law intended, so you have to give it to us and pay a penalty'.
If I steal an apple from Walmart, should the fine be 1 percent of the value of the apple? Clearly not.