Podgorica: Legalization of illegal houses will be able to be paid for in 240 monthly installments

According to the draft Decision on the payment of fees for communal equipment of construction land for illegal buildings, the owners will be able to pay up to 240 equal monthly installments for the legalization of illegal houses, and the amount will depend on the square footage and the zone in which they live.

This amount will be paid for basic housing, and the owner can request to pay in one lump sum or in equal monthly installments.

This means that for one hundred square meters in the first A zone, this fee would amount to 20 euros in 14.156 years, or 59 euros per month.

It is foreseen that the fee is paid per square meter, and for the first A zone it is 141,56 euros, for the first 136,68, for the second 97,63, for the third 73,22, for the fourth 63,46 and for the fifth 48,81 euros.

"For other illegal objects, compensation is paid once or in equal monthly installments specified in the request of the owner of the illegal object, and at most in 120 monthly installments," the document states.

The draft Decision should be adopted by the Assembly of the capital, and it was proposed on the basis of the Law on Spatial Planning and Building Construction.

"The fee is calculated on the basis of the Elaborate survey of the completed condition of the built object per square meter of the object's net surface area, prepared by a licensed geodetic organization certified by the Cadastre. The competent authority for issuing a decision on the legalization of an illegal building submits to the Agency for Construction and Development of Podgorica the report on the survey of the completed state of the built building for the calculation of the fee," the documentation states.

The agency is obliged, as explained, within 25 days from the submission of the report of the survey of the completed state of the constructed facility to the competent authority for issuing the decision on legalization, to submit proof of the arrangement of the relationship regarding the payment of the fee for communal equipment.

"The compensation is paid to the budget of the Capital City. One-time payment implies payment in the entire amount seven days after the adoption of the decision on compensation, in which case the investor has the right to a reduction of 15 percent of the calculated value of the compensation," the documentation says.

When paying the compensation in installments, the regular interest, default interest and appropriate means of payment security are agreed upon.

"The amount of the monthly installment is increased by the amount of regular interest paid by the domicile bank on term funds. In the event that the investor is late with the payment of the fee, default interest is calculated in accordance with the law. Security of claims based on the payment of compensation is established on the facility for which the compensation is calculated. If the owner of the illegal building is late with payment for more than three months, the entire amount of the debt will be considered overdue, and the capital will activate all the contracted means of security", explained the procedure.

When concluding a mortgage contract, the owner of an illegal building is obliged to provide an assessment of the value of the real estate from an authorized appraiser.

In zone A, the center, under Gorica, across Morača, Durrës, near Ribnica

The mortgage, as explained, can be activated for the object for which the fee is calculated.

"It can also be used for immovable property registered in the list of immovable properties without encumbrances and restrictions, i.e. residential and business premises, an urban plot, and exceptionally, if the Capital City is interested in a cadastral plot on which construction of general interest is planned and which serve to equip the location with utilities", he writes. in the documentation.

In the first A zone are, among other things, the settlement under Gorica, parts of the city across Morača, Durres, the settlement near Ribnica, the city center.

Block five and six, Momišići, Stara Varoš, Pobrežje belong to the first zone.

In the second zone are Konik, Stari Aerodrom, Ibričevina, Zabjelo, in the third Zelenika, part of Gornja Gorica, Tološ, in the fourth Vrela Ribnička, Murtovina, Zlatica, and in the fifth, among others, Kakaricka gora, Golubovci and Tuzi, Dajbaba and Zelenika.