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Submission made in connection with the consultation and public display of the draft Bill on Public Paths and Hiking Routes of Interest in Mallorca.
Main points raised
- Definition of a public path: the submission asks for the definition to be consistent with the Civil Code and local-government legislation, including the requirement that maintenance and policing be the responsibility of the local authority.
- Protection strip: it argues for a distinction between existing structures, occupations or uses and future ones.
- Barriers and “public use”: it challenges treating barriers on publicly owned paths in the same way as barriers on privately owned paths used by tolerance or subject to rights of way.
- Municipal path catalogues: it asks for greater legal certainty about what it means for catalogues to have been prepared “in collaboration” with the Consell Insular de Mallorca.
The original DOCX preserves the complete wording of the submission dated 10 July 2017.