The expert commented on the legality of blocking the parking space with old cars.

Moscow motorists are increasingly resorting to the method of keeping parking spaces in the courtyards of apartment buildings, going to work, on business or on vacation. For this purpose, old cars can be used, which drivers use to block "their" place. Sergey Radko, a lawyer for the Freedom of Choice automobile movement, explained on Monday, May 25, how legitimate this is.

"The law does not prohibit a car owner from owning at least 100 cars and having them in their yards. It would be possible to try to solve the problem if we limited the number of cars per owner. But there is a caveat here: you can buy a vehicle by proxy," the expert quotes. Lenta.Ru .

Earlier it became known that in the Chertanovo district of the capital, "indigenous Muscovites" appropriated parking in the courtyard and have been holding it for 10 years. All these years, they haven't let new neighbors into the parking spaces. To protect parking from them and fill up the spaces, old-timers put non-working Lada cars in the afternoon, and in the evening they drive them away and park their "working" cars.

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In turn, senior lawyer Ksenia Zaitseva warned on May 12 that parking at dumpsters could be fined up to five thousand rubles. 360.ru .

Earlier, on April 28, a bill was submitted to the State Duma, which proposes to establish rules on the mandatory allocation of places for disabled cars in parking lots within the boundaries of the house territory without a decision of the general meeting of owners.