Fago submits the new comprehensive water ordinance for public consultation

The open council of Fago has provisionally approved the new full wording of the Ordinance regulating the water supply tax for domestic, industrial, and irrigation uses, along with the conditions for the provision of the municipal service. The agreement was adopted by the Neighborhood Assembly in a session held on November 11, 2026, and is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Huesca No. 217, this Thursday, November 12, 2026, under file 1897477K. The text is now open for allegations for thirty business days.

The announcement, signed by the mayor-president Enrique Barcos Barcos, details that the Neighborhood Assembly “provisionally approved the fiscal content and initially the regulatory content of the service” of the new wording. In other words, the same agreement covers two different matters: the tax that residents pay for water and the operating rules of the municipal service, which until now were regulated in a text that is now being entirely replaced.

The processing complies with three regulations that the announcement itself expressly cites:

• Article 17 of the revised text of the Law Regulating Local Treasuries, approved by Royal Legislative Decree 2/2004, of March 5.
• Article 49 of Law 7/1985, of April 2, Regulating the Bases of the Local Regime.
• Article 140 of Law 7/1999, of April 9, on Local Administration of Aragon.

A single text for the tax and for the service conditions

The regulation now submitted for public exhibition unifies the fiscal ordinance of the water supply tax and the conditions for the provision of the service into a single document. The declared objective covers three distinct uses: domestic, industrial, and irrigation, which implies that the text affects both the households of the municipality as well as agricultural holdings and economic activities supplied by the municipal network.

The published announcement does not include the tariff table or the detail of the technical conditions, which are part of the draft ordinance and the administrative file. Therefore, the specific amounts and supply rules can only be consulted in the documentation deposited at the Town Hall Secretariat and on the municipal electronic office, https://fago.sedipualba.es/.

Thirty business days to present allegations

The period for public information and hearing is thirty business days. Its calculation begins the day following the publication of this announcement in the Official Gazette of the Province of Huesca, but with one condition: that by that date, the publication on the municipal notice board has also taken place. If this is not the case, the period will be counted from the day following this latter publication.

During this period, the file may be examined at the City Council Secretariat, during public office hours, and through the municipal electronic office. Interested parties may submit claims, allegations, and suggestions via the municipal registry or through any legally admitted means.

Final approval if no objections are raised

The announcement states that, if no claims or suggestions are submitted within the indicated period, the agreement will be understood as definitively adopted without the need for a new pronouncement from the Neighborhood Assembly. From that moment, the full text of the ordinance will be published, and the requirements for entry into force corresponding to its fiscal and service-regulating contents will be fulfilled.

A comprehensive fiscal review

The water ordinance does not come alone. In the same issue of the bulletin, the Fago City Council publishes five other provisional approvals of fiscal ordinances, all signed on November 11 and with the same procedure of thirty business days of public exhibition:

• The modification of the ordinance for the Tax on Construction, Installations, and Works (ICIO).
• The imposition and regulation of the fee for the provision of waste services and its fiscal ordinance.
• The sewerage fee.
• The fiscal ordinance for the Real Estate Tax (IBI).
• The fiscal ordinance for the Mechanical Traction Vehicle Tax (IVTM), with file 1749614W.

The package of announcements extends from pages 38 to 49 of the bulletin, within the Local Administration section, confirming that the open council has concentrated the update of the fiscal block and municipal services into a single session.

The relevance for residents is direct: the water ordinance determines how much is paid for the supply in the three planned uses and under what conditions the service is provided. Since this is the full wording and not a specific modification, any change in the tariff structure or in the obligations of the subscribers must be incorporated now, and the allegations period is the only window to discuss it before the text is definitively approved and enters into force.

Source: Official Bulletin of the Province of Huesca, no. 217, Thursday, November 12, 2026, Local Administration (City Councils), pp. 38-39 (official reference: BOPH-2026-217018).