Аналітика. Статті. Коментарі.
Опубліковано 18.12.2017 Микола Войтович
At a plenary session of Parliament the Law On Housing and Utility ServicesNo.1581-d was adopted. Can this innovation effectively regulate relations between administrators of multi-apartment buildings and their residents?
The adopted law is just aimed at creating a framework for effective regulation of relations between administrators of multi-apartment buildings and their residents. Thus, this is just the first (but very important) step. The law specifies basic rights and obligations of residents and administrators, setting the basis for the contractual relationship and introducing qualification requirements for administrators.
At the same time, the adopted law does not solve certain major problems that have existed since the Law On the Specifics of Executing Ownership Rights in Multi-apartment Buildings (the law that introduced the concept of administrators) came into force. A significant number of residents are passive and sceptical, hence unable to organize themselves to choose an administrator. In that case, the local authorities must appoint an administrator. However, such appointment may only be provided upon the respective request of the majority of apartments owners. In such a way, we may get a dead-end situation, in which passive residents cannot select an administrator, and the local authorities cannot appoint one because of inactivity of residents who will not collect the necessary number of signatures under the request. Therefore, extensive explanatory work must be carried out to increase public awareness.
Another, still unsolved problem, is widespread sabotage of former housing offices to pass building documentation to elected (appointed) administrators. In this aspect, some legal liability for such sabotage must be stipulated.
Николай Войтович
The Ukrainian Journal of Business Law декабрь 2017 года
http://www.ujbl.info/article.php?id=1047