Article 12. Powers of housing fund inspection

Housing Fund Inspection carries out state control over:

compliance with rules and norms of technical operation of multi-apartment houses, requirements for maintenance of land plots adjacent to multi-apartment houses, in accordance with sanitary norms, rules, and hygienic standards, prevention of unauthorized reconstruction and redevelopment of premises by owners;

compliance with established rules and systematic conduct of repair and restoration works of common property, facades of multi-apartment houses, intra-house engineering communications;

compliance by organizations of the housing and communal services sphere with requirements of normative documents in the field of technical regulation when providing corresponding services;

targeted use of funds of owners of premises in multi-apartment houses, accumulated for conducting capital repair of multi-apartment houses.

Housing Fund Inspection is granted powers to issue mandatory prescriptions:

to management bodies of multi-apartment houses or owners of premises — on the elimination of existing violations of rules of maintenance and technical operation of multi-apartment houses, requirements for maintenance of land plots adjacent to multi-apartment houses, in accordance with sanitary norms, rules, and hygienic standards;

to organizations of the housing and communal services sphere — on compliance with requirements of normative documents in the field of technical regulation when providing corresponding services.

Decisions of Housing Fund Inspection, actions (inaction) of its officials may be appealed in a judicial procedure.