Arina Dovzhenko, head of the Real Estate and Construction Bureau of Nordic Star Law Firm, warned that garage and car space owners who use their property for other purposes are at risk of losing their property from September 1. DEA News”.
On January 1, amendments to the Civil Code (CC) began to work, allowing the abuse of buildings and parking spaces to lead to destruction due to systematic violation of neighbor rights or mismanagement of buildings.
As the attorney explains, now if there are complaints about the storage of garbage or the use of the garage as a repair shop or car wash, local governments can arrange an investigation and ask the owner to remove the violations. If the owner does not do this, the court, with the action of the competent state body or local self-government body, may order the property to be sold at auction with payment to the owner of the property with proceeds minus costs, he said. .
Vladimir Balakin, Former President of the National Association for Harmonization saidHow can garage owners be dispossessed without monetary compensation?