Deputies adopted in the first reading a bill to extend the simplified procedure for registering garages and the land under them. After the bill, the “garage amnesty” can now operate until September 1, 2031 – five years longer than originally planned (the period ended on September 1, 2026).
The initiators of the bill were Senator Vladimir Yakushev and the head of the Duma Committee on State Construction Pavel Krasheninnikov. According to Rosreestr, since the launch of the amnesty in September 2021, more than 746 thousand garages and plots under them have already been registered. But deputies admit: the real number of unregistered buildings is “many times greater.” Their owners can neither sell the property, nor transfer it by inheritance, nor officially connect communications.
An important limitation: only permanent garages built before December 30, 2004 are eligible for amnesty. And only those that are not recognized as unauthorized construction by a court decision. “Any object built later, or outright unauthorized construction, is cut off at the stage of initial inspection,” explained the head of the property committee, Sergei Gavrilov (Communist Party of the Russian Federation). Municipalities collect archives, check network connections and other data confirming the age of the garage.
The extension until 2031 will allow those who, for objective reasons, did not have time or only now learned about their right, to legalize. “The property will be registered, put on the cadastre, begin to bring taxes to the budget, and the person himself will receive protection from sudden demolition,” Gavrilov concluded. The bill passed the first reading. For the final decision to be made, two more readings of the bill in the State Duma, approval by the Federation Council and signing by the president will be required.
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