Svirkov, S.A. Problems of civil law regulation of technological infrastructure in heating supply system

Abstract: The article concerns the key topical issues of current legislation in the sphere of use of heat supply infrastructure. The author studies specific features of legal status of the heat supply organization and the contract for the heat supply services. The article contains detailed analysis of sub-recipients in heat and electricity supply. The author also notes the tendency for the refusal from the traditional scheme for sub-recipient relations in the current legislation. The author evaluates the issues of access to heat supply infrastructure, provides characteristics of the contract for the connection to the heat supply system. The substantial defect of legal regulation in this sphere is lack of state-guaranteed right to connect to the heat supply system. The author evaluates legal nature of technical conditions, which the heat supply organization provides to consumers, and their role in the mechanism of legal regulation of access to heat supply system.

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