Act No. 106 / 1953 Coll.

Law on housing, maintenance and management of residential property and their financing

Valid Effective from 31.12.1953
106.
Law
of 22 December 1953
on housing, maintenance and management of residential property and their financing.
The National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Republic decided on the following Act:
§ 1.
The purpose of the law.
The purpose of the Act is to enable and ensure, within the framework of the state plan for the development of the national economy, a permanent improvement in the housing conditions of the workers and to ensure financially the housing construction and proper housing promotion. In line with the needs of building a socialist economy, the state ensures the construction of suitable and healthy flats for workers. The state also supports the individual construction of family houses for the home of workers.

Část I.

The housing construction, maintenance and management of residential property.
§ 2.
Housing property.
The residential property under this Act is real estate used solely or principally for residential purposes, as well as its components and accessories.
§ 3.
Housing construction.
(1) National committees organise residential construction in their districts.
(2) Housing is carried out by socialist legal persons, in particular national and local industry and municipal enterprises, for the accommodation of their employees; National committees and housing cooperatives also for accommodation for other workers. Housing may also be carried out by central authorities and other public authorities.
(3) The construction of family houses for private housing can also be carried out by individuals; in the construction of these houses, the State provides assistance to workers.
§ 4.
Housing with apartment property.
(1) Managers of national housing assets, as well as owners (beneficiaries) of other residential property, are obliged to manage it with the care of a proper operator, in particular to provide and carry out in a timely manner general and routine repairs.
(2) Unless otherwise provided, socialist legal entities and public authorities with national residential property shall manage them in accordance with the rules applicable to them when managing other national property.
§ 5.
Responsibility.
(1) Individual ministers and managers of central offices are responsible in their field of competence for housing construction and management of national residential property.
(2) The Minister for the Local Economy and National Committees are responsible for the housing construction and management of residential property belonging to the housing economy of the National Committees.
(3) The Minister for the Local Economy and the National Committees are also responsible for the supervision of the housing of socialist legal persons whose property is not State owned and for the construction of personal property, as well as for the supervision of its management and management of residential property. are also responsible for the supervision of the provision and implementation of routine and general repairs on all residential property.
Housing of national committees; establishment of local housing administrations.
§ 6.
(1) The housing economy of the National Committee includes residential property which has been entrusted or transferred to administration under the rules in force to the National Committee.
(2) The National Committees will abolish the housing communal enterprises and take over the management of their housing assets. They will also take over the management of housing assets of the existing housing holdings of municipal enterprises. If the rights and obligations of the undertakings cancelled are not transferred collectively to another entity, they shall dispose of those undertakings, the managers with the directives of the Ministry of the Local Economy issued in agreement with the Ministry of Finance.
§ 7.
(1) The Government shall determine under which conditions in urban cities and municipalities a local national committee shall establish local housing management for its housing. The approval of the Regional National Committee is needed to establish a local housing administration.
(2) In other cases, national committees shall manage residential property belonging to their housing economy within their other economy.
§ 8.
Tasks of local housing.
(1) The task of the local housing administration is to care with the broad participation of workers, so that the housing assets serve their social mission as best as possible.
(2) Local housing management manages the housing economy of the National Committee while overseeing other residential property in the municipality, taking care of the implementation of its ordinary and general repairs.
§ 9.
Home affairs.
(1) In order to manage and ensure normal and general repairs and building modifications of residential property, the local housing administration is set up for groups of home management houses.
(2) The establishment of home administrations is the responsibility of the local housing administration, whose administration and maintenance falls within the competence of the national committees.
(3) Socialistic legal persons, in the case of authorities and public administrations, may establish home administration for the housing assets they manage; they may also entrust the management of such assets by mutual agreement to local housing management in accordance with directives issued by the Ministry of the Local Economy in agreement with the Ministry of Finance and the participating ministries.
§ 10.
Technical components of housing and maintenance services.
(1) In cities where the work on general and ordinary repairs and other technical services for the housing economy reaches significant dimensions and costs, the Minister of the Local Economy may, in agreement with the Minister of Finance, integrate the residential economy as technical components into the housing system and subject them to the local economy's businesses, after the budgetary organisation of the National Committee, serving primarily the needs of the housing sector.
(2) In the case of larger home administrations, local housing authorities may introduce emergency maintenance services to rapidly eliminate minor damage to residential property.
§ 11.
Workers' participation.
In order to ensure the control and assistance of the broad masses of citizens in the performance of the tasks of housing and home administrations, a civil commission (maintenance commission, financial commission, enlightenment commission, etc.) will be created at home administrations.
§ 12.
County and county housing administrations.
(1) If necessary, the District National Committee may establish a district housing administration with the agreement of the Regional National Committee.
(2) The Regional National Committee will establish a regional housing administration.
§ 13.
Implementing regulations.
(1) The Government shall adjust the details of the legal status, organisation and tasks of housing and home administrations.
(2) The Government also
1. specify the concept of residential property and specify which residential property or the extent to which certain residential property is excluded from the scope of this Act;
2. make provision for the gradual transfer of home work in houses to permanent staff of home administrations, and determine the obligations of tenants with regard to house administration or minor repairs in homes;
3. Issue regulations on how to protect homes in defence of the country;
4. Determines what measures may be taken if construction workers do not proceed properly in residential construction or restoration;
5. Determines under which conditions the housing associations may be abolished and their housing assets transferred to the State or to certain district housing cooperatives with current legal arrangements resulting from membership of the repealed association.
(3) National Committees may issue generally binding provisions governing the civil cohabitation of residents in residential homes (house rules) and the obligation to clean the pavement according to the guidelines of the Minister of the Local Economy.

Část II.

Funding for housing and housing management.
§ 14.
National housing property.
The management and construction of national residential property shall be financed, unless otherwise specified, under the rules under which the socialist legal person or public authority managing the housing property or carrying out the housing construction is financed.
§ 15.
Cooperative housing property.
The housing cooperatives pay the cost of managing their housing assets, building them and overhauls in principle from their own resources. They may be granted a long-term loan for housing and overhauls.
§ 16.
Personal housing property.
Individuals pay for the costs of building and repairing their family homes by their own funds. Long-term loans may be granted to cover the cost of building family houses.
§ 17.
Housing property in the administration of home administrations.
(1) The management with the national housing property managed by the home administration is financed under Section 5 of Act No. 83 / 1952 Coll., on the budgets of the national committees. The government will adjust the details.
(2) The government will also adjust the management of residential property other than the national property managed by the home administration; In doing so, it may provide that private owners using their own residential property managed by the home administration as a national administrator shall be required to contribute, if its revenue is not sufficient, to the repair and other costs actually incurred on such property by the national administration, up to the amount corresponding to the usual rent on the premises used by them.
§ 18.
Private housing property.
(1) The costs of ordinary and general repairs and the construction of the privately owned residential property are mainly borne by the owner (the beneficiary).
(2) In the case of private residential property the owners of which, under Act No. 80 / 1952 Coll., on Home Tax, are obliged to pay the rent to the Cash Institute, the cost of ordinary and general repairs and of building modifications is also paid out of the amounts which the money institutions transfer from the special account of the rent to the account of the repair.
§ 19.
Provision of loans and aid and provision of rent.
Government
1. lay down the conditions for granting long-term loans to housing cooperatives (§ 15) and individuals for personal housing assets (§ 16);
2. Provides that aid may be granted to housing cooperatives to cover operating costs and to individuals to cover the costs associated with the construction of family houses and the conditions of such aid;
3. adjust the legal situation between national undertakings and owners of family houses whose construction or renewal has been financed by the Housing Fund;
4. Determines what periodic penalty payments may be required by socialist sector entities as lodgers of residential property for the rent due which has become payable after the effectiveness of this Act.

Část III.

Cancellation of the Housing Fund and settlement of housing and renewal aid.
§ 20.
(1) The Housing Fund (hereinafter referred to as the Fund) is hereby repealed.
(2) The date of the cancellation of the Fund is transferred to the State of Rights and Obligations under Act No. 41 / 1947 Coll., on State aid for residential buildings, and under Act No. 86 / 1946 Coll., on the Construction Reconstruction, as amended by the Act amending and supplementing these laws, as well as under § 19 of the Ordinance of the Board of Authors No. 128 / 1945 Coll. SNR, on the construction of towns and municipalities in Slovakia. On the same date, the right to reimbursement is also transferred to the State on the grounds of aid granted for housing before 1945.
(3) The Government will adjust the settlement of the other rights and obligations of the Fund as well as the settlement of other legal arrangements resulting from its abolition.
(4) Disposal surpluses of the Fund shall be carried to the State budget.
§ 21.
The government shall determine:
1. which aid granted for housing and renewal and to what extent is cancelled and which refunds, under what conditions, to what extent and in what way will be collected from owners of houses built with State aid;
2. under what conditions and to what extent housing aid may still be granted.
§ 22.
The corresponding amounts of advances granted for the renewal of family houses and agricultural holdings in Slovakia from public funds are considered to be aid granted under Law No 86 / 1946 Coll. as amended by the regulations amending it and pursuant to § 19 of the Ordinance of the Board of Authorisers No. 128 / 1945 Coll. SNR.

Část IV.

Common and final provisions.
§ 23.
The provisions which contravene this law, in particular Act No. 110 / 1950 Coll., on the organisation of residential property and the Housing Fund, are repealed.
§ 24.
Measures taken before the entry into force of this Act in accordance with it shall be deemed to have been taken under this Act.
§ 25.
This Act shall take effect on the day of its publication; It shall be implemented by the Minister for the Local Economy and by the Minister for Finance in agreement with the participating members of the Government.
Zaporocký v. r.
Fierlinger v. r.
Dr Dolansky v. r.
Děuriš v. r.
Dr Kylý v. r.

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CitationAct No. 106 / 1953 Coll., on housing construction, maintenance and management of residential property and their financing
Regulation Type-
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CollectionCode of Laws
Date of Promulgation31.12.1953
Effective from31.12.1953
Effective until-
Status Valid
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