about the property maintenance fund.

Maintenance funds are kept by the owner

The original provision: the property maintenance fund shall be paid to the special maintenance fund account designated by the competent department.

new regulations: before the establishment of the owners' meeting, the special maintenance funds for houses will be entrusted by the local government construction (real estate) department; After the establishment of the owners' meeting, the owners can apply to the relevant departments. By convening the owners' meeting, the owners' meeting authorizes the owners' committee to be responsible for the daily management of special maintenance funds with the consent of the owners whose exclusive parts account for more than 2/3 of the total building area and 2/3 of the total number. The owners' congress may entrust a local commercial bank as a special account management bank to open a special account for residential maintenance funds. Under the premise of ensuring the normal use of maintenance funds, special maintenance funds can be used to purchase government bonds in accordance with relevant state regulations.

Impact: This is the first time that the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of Finance have made it clear that the owners' meeting can open a special account for special maintenance funds in commercial banks. In this way, no matter before or after the establishment of the owners' meeting, the maintenance funds are in charge of the bank and earmarked for special purposes. No matter how the owners' committee and the property management company change, the maintenance funds will not follow, which improves the security of the maintenance funds.

How to use it is up to the owner

According to the original regulation, the maintenance funds can be used to repair the house only after the owners' assembly or the owners' committee authorized by the owners' assembly agrees.

new regulations: property service enterprises put forward suggestions for use according to maintenance, renewal and renovation projects; If there is no property service enterprise, the relevant owners will put forward suggestions for use; Owners whose exclusive parts account for more than two-thirds of the total building area and more than two-thirds of the total number of people within the scope of special maintenance funds for residential buildings discuss and adopt suggestions for use.

Impact: The new regulations simplify the procedures for the use of maintenance funds, which can well solve the problems of difficult extraction and use of housing maintenance funds that currently plague many communities. If the corridor light of a building in a residential area is broken, if there are 3 households in this unit building, as long as 2 of them agree, maintenance funds can be charged.

The four expenses shall not be included in the special maintenance fund

According to the clear provisions of the Measures for the Administration of Special Maintenance Funds for Residential Buildings, the following four expenses shall not be included in the special maintenance funds for residential buildings in the future:

1. The expenses for the maintenance, renewal and renovation of residential buildings and facilities and equipment that should be borne by the construction unit or the construction unit according to law;

2. Maintenance and conservation expenses of water supply, power supply, gas supply, heat supply, communication, cable TV and other pipelines and facilities that should be borne by relevant units according to law;

iii. the repair expenses required for the artificial damage to the residential parts and facilities and equipment;

iv. according to the property service contract, the property service enterprise shall bear the repair and maintenance expenses of the residential parts and facilities.