Legal analysis: the special maintenance fund for residential buildings is the fund specially used for overhaul, medium repair, renewal and transformation of residential buildings and facilities after the expiration of the warranty period, and shall not be used for other purposes. The residential part generally includes: residential foundation, load-bearing wall, column, beam, floor, roof, outdoor wall, hall, stairs, corridor and so on. * * * Facilities and equipment generally include elevators, fire-fighting facilities, roads, sewer pipes and non-operating parking garages.

Legal basis: Article 3 of the Measures for the Administration of Special Maintenance Funds for Residential Buildings The * * * used parts of residential buildings as mentioned in these Measures refer to the parts shared by the owners in a single house or the owners in a single house and the non-residential owners connected with their structures according to laws, regulations and housing sales contracts, generally including: residential foundation, load-bearing walls, columns, beams, floors, roofs and outdoor walls, halls, stairs, etc. The measures referred to in * * facilities and equipment refers to the ancillary facilities and equipment used by residential owners or residential owners and related non-residential owners according to laws, regulations and house sales contracts, generally including elevators, antennas, lighting, fire-fighting facilities, green spaces, roads, street lamps, ditches, pools, wells, non-operating parking garages, public cultural and sports facilities and facilities and equipment used in * * * rooms.