Article 16. General expenses for maintenance of common property

Owners of premises are obliged to jointly bear general expenses for the maintenance of common property.

General expenses for the maintenance of common property constitute expenses associated with the maintenance, operation, and repair of common property, as well as the landscaping of the land plot adjacent to the multi-apartment house.

The share of participation of an owner of a premise in general expenses for the maintenance of common property is determined proportionally to the share of the area of their premise to the total area of premises of the multi-apartment house in accordance with the cadastral passport of the multi-apartment house.

Upon commissioning of newly constructed multi-apartment houses, the share of participation in general expenses for the maintenance of common property for unsold premises is borne by the person in whose name the right of ownership to these premises is registered.

Owners of premises are obliged to pay expenses for the maintenance of common property monthly, as a rule, in monetary form.

The size of mandatory contributions or payments of owners of premises for the maintenance, operation, and repair of common property and landscaping of the land plot adjacent to the multi-apartment house is established by the decision of the general meeting.

The provision of services and performance of works on management, technical maintenance, and repair of common property, as well as landscaping of the land plot adjacent to the multi-apartment house by organizations of the housing and communal services sphere, as well as the payment of remuneration to the chairman and members of the council of the multi-apartment house in the case of management of the multi-apartment house directly by owners of premises, payment of remuneration to members of the board, revision commission, and wages to employees of the partnership are subject to taxation in accordance with tax legislation.

The procedure for determining the composition of costs when establishing the size of mandatory contributions or payments of owners of premises is approved by the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

In separate cases, the general meeting may adopt a decision on replacing the monetary form of paying part of the mandatory contributions or payments of owners with other types of their participation in general expenses based on a written notification of the applicant and the protocol of the general meeting.