Conflict between Seversky City Council and Donetskteplokommunenergo”

The conflict between the Seversky City Council and Donetskteplokommunenergo, which does not recognize the legality of separating 51 apartments in apartment buildings in Seversk from district heating. Public utilities continue to charge payments for a service that a group of citizens of the community has not received for a year.

In July — September 2019, the interdepartmental Commission on disconnection from central heating and hot water supply networks (hereinafter referred to as the interdepartmental Commission) under the Executive Committee of the Seversk City Council granted permission to the owners of the 51st apartment to disconnect from central heating networks. This was evidenced by the relevant acts signed by representatives of the Housing Department, the balance holder company of these houses and the apartment owners themselves. Teplokommunenergo did not recognize 3 protocols of the interdepartmental Commission on disconnection and appealed them in court. Why did the heat engines consider the shutdown illegal? Until May 2019, it was possible to cut off only the entire house from centralized Heat Supply (and not individual apartments in it). Since May 1, 2019, some changes have come into force in the law on housing and communal services. Namely, only owners of apartments in those apartment buildings in which more than half of the apartments are already disconnected from the central heating networks have the right to disconnect from central heating. What was the argument of the utility worker? They stated that at that time the law allowed such disconnection, and the procedure for implementing it was old, not adapted to changes in legislation (the new procedure came into force only on September 17, 2019).