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Cost and regulation of the municipal well-drilling license

Dossier
Water for industry14-agua-industrial.md
Domain
Industrial water, wells and dischargesagua
Room
Energy/energia
Audited
Audited

The fee and license for drilling each mechanical well (urban or rural) is set municipality by municipality under the Municipal Code and the schedules of fees; there is no national tariff. Infile's compilation of municipal rules shows, for example, the drilling license fee of the Guatemala City municipality (Municipal Agreement 11-05-1995), of San José Pinula (Minute 33-94.3) and of San Lucas Sacatepéquez (Minute 019-94), but with no amounts in the index. The cost for each target municipality (Guatemala, Villa Nueva, Mixco, Escuintla, San José Pinula) is recorded as 'not found': it has to be gathered at each municipality's single window.

The research is written in English; quoted figures, source names and the titles of legal instruments stay in the language their source published them in.

Caveat

amounts are not public in the source; to be gathered municipality by municipality

Sources

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  • Municipalidad de GuatemalaThe Construction One-Stop Window (physical, at the Municipal Palace, plus the vu.muniguate.com portal): enquiries, requirements, feasibility checks and forms online; ~10 institutions take part in a single permit; a quoted timeline of 30-60 working days; a construction regulation amended to revive economic activity; 1st in the country on the 2025 Local Competitiveness Index (ICL) (80.82)Public agency

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