On rules for the use of residential premises: rethinking legislative constructions

The ongoing reform of Russian housing legislation poses the task of legal analysis of adopted and existing acts of housing law. Since 1 March 2022, new Rules for the Use of Residential Premises have been enacted, which have not yet been the subject of a separate scientific study. The article analyses the dynamics of the development of domestic legislation on the rules for the use of residential premises. The conclusion is made about the emergence of the Rules for the Use of Residential Premises as a separate legal act in connection with the reform of Soviet housing law in the early eighties of the last century and the need to adopt, first of all, the Model Social Hire Agreement. The analysis of the current Rules for the use of residential premises has shown that they contain only duplicative, blanket and reference norms of law, which leads to complication of perception of legal norms, their opacity, violation of the necessary criteria of formal certainty, clarity, unambiguity of a legal norm. A proposal is made to exclude from Article 17 of the Housing Code of the Russian Federation mentioning the need to adopt the Rules for the use of residential premises.