Legal Regulation of Reimbursement of the Cost of Inseparable Improvements to Leased Property: Problems of Law Enforcement

The article on the basis of normative regulations and law enforcement practice scrutinizes peculiarities of the legal regulation of relations associated with reimbursement of the cost of inseparable improvements to the leased property carried out by the tenant The emphasis is put on legal assessment of changes in the leased property that improve its quality and on the terms of reimbursement of the cost of inseparable improvements to the tenant. The author provides arguments concerning inadmissibility of equating the leased property (the result of the tenant's activity as it is defined in Para 1 Article 616 of the RF Civil Code) with inseparable improvements in the meaning of Para 2 and 3 of Article 623 of the RF Civil Code. The author emphasizes that the essence of this distinction amounts to the determination of civil law consequences of improvements to leased property If the change is the result of capital repairs carried out at the expense of the tenant when the landlord violates his duty to perform such repairs, then the landlord's failure to carry out the major repairs gives rise to a specific duty imposed on the tenant to compensate for the cost of repairs or to deduct it from rental payments under the rules of Article 616 of the RF Civil Code. Different consequences arise in determining the legal nature of legal relations when the tenant's actions are based solely on his private interests to improve the quality of the object of the lease and (or) its operational properties and are not aimed at carrying out the landlord's duty to maintain property in proper condition The cost of such inseparable improvements to the leased property shall be reimbursed under the rules of Article 623 of the RF Civil Code.

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