The Russian Information Systems of the Housing and Utilities Sector: Peculiarities of Legal Regulation and Application

Abstract

The article studies the issues of application of information systems in the housing and utilities sector in the Russian Federation. Topicality of the studied issues is predetermined by the necessity for improving the law for the purpose of overcoming the difficulties that appear in practice due to the Russia’s active implementation of state and private information systems in the housing and utilities sector. The purpose of the article is to determine the main directions of improvement of the legal mechanism that determines the forms and means of using the information systems in the housing and utilities sector on the basis of determination and analysis of this mechanism’s drawbacks. The main approaches to studying this problem are the dialectic, system, intersectorial, etc., which allows for the complex consideration of the mechanism of the information systems usage in view of the needs of the housing and utilities sector. The results are as follows: the current state of legal regulation in the sphere of the Russian information systems is determined, and the peculiarities of application of the information systems in the housing and utilities sector are determined, in particular, during general meeting of the residents of an apartment block via postal vote; the procedure of using the state and private information systems the housing and utilities sector is studied; the directions for improvement of the law in this sphere are given. The article poses practical value for specialists of various profiles that work in the housing and utilities sector, scholars who conduct analysis of the legal, information, and economic aspects of functioning of the housing and utilities sector, and persons who deal with the legislative activities.