Legal analysis: Maintenance fund, also known as "public maintenance fund" and "special maintenance fund", refers to a fund that the owners of residential properties pay a certain amount of money to a special account for the maintenance of public parts and facilities and equipment used in the property area, and authorize the owners' committee to manage and use them uniformly. Public * * * maintenance fund refers to the maintenance fund for public parts, facilities and equipment of residential buildings used by * * * according to the regulations of the Ministry of Construction. The maintenance fund for units selling public houses is jointly raised by the units selling houses and the employees buying houses, and the ownership belongs to the purchaser, which is used for the maintenance of public parts and facilities of residential buildings.

Legal basis: Article 3 of the Measures for the Administration of Maintenance Funds for Residential Building Facilities and Equipment * * * The * * used parts mentioned in these Measures refer to the main load-bearing structural parts of the house (including foundation, internal and external load-bearing walls, columns, beams, floors and roofs, etc.). ), outdoor walls, hallways, stairwells, corridors, etc. * * * Facilities and equipment refer to water supply and drainage pipes, downpipes, water tanks, booster pumps, elevators, antennas, power supply lines, lighting, boilers, heating lines, gas lines, fire-fighting facilities, green spaces, roads, street lamps, ditches, pools, wells, non-operating parking lots, garages, etc. in residential quarters or single houses.