On disadvantages of legal regulation in the field of setting up the grounds and conditions of property responsibility of participants related to providing communal services and the delivery of public utilities

The work is devoted to the analysis of interrelated provisions of a number of legal rules of various levels, regulating property liability of the participants of relations in the sphere of public services and supply of public utilities. Regulations fixing the grounds and conditions of responsibility of the consumer of public utilities and their provider are analyzed. Violations of the systemic nature of the relevant regulatory and legal acts that hamper their understanding and enforcement in the designated sphere are revealed. The reasons for both material and procedural nature have been identified, creating prerequisites for violating the legitimate rights and interests of the consumer of utilities and resources. Proposals have been worked out to improve certain provisions of the analyzed legal rules as well as the practice of their application.