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the collection of fees for services provided by public utilities. ( Izv. No. 193, S. U. 62‐445 ).

Article No. 445.

Decree of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars.

In order to restore communal services and rational exploitation of its enterprises, the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars, in amendment of the decree of January 27, 1921 (No. 6, Art. 47 ), resolves:

1.From September 15, 1921, fees have been set for the use of plumbing, sewerage, electricity, gas, city railways and other communal vehicles, bathhouses, laundries, repair shops and chimney cleaning enterprises.

Note . At the request of the local Executive Committees, the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Internal Affairs, by agreement with the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Finance, may establish a fee for the services of all kinds of other communal enterprises.

2.                   Payment for the use of the services of these enterprises shall be levied both from individuals, public organizations and institutions, as well as from state institutions and enterprises without exception.

3.                   Payment for the services specified in clause 1, provided to workers and employees of state institutions and enterprises, is made at the expense of the latter according to certain rates.

Note 1‐e . This clause applies to workers and employees of the AllRussian Central Council of Trade Unions, the All‐Russian Central Union of Consumer Societies, the Central Workers‐Cooperative Committee and their local bodies, disabled persons who are dependent on workers and employees or social security of the state, students supported by the state, and in general on persons existing on public funds.

Note 2 . The Peopleʹs Commissariat of Internal Affairs, the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Finance and the All‐Russian Central Council of Trade Unions are obliged, within two weeks from the date of publication of this Resolution, to develop instructions on the procedure and rates of payment by state institutions and enterprises for the services provided to their workers and employees by public utilities and the instructions to submit for approval by the Council Peopleʹs Commissars.

4.                   When setting tariffs, they should be based on the costs of maintaining and running enterprises.

5.                   Local public utilities are obliged, within two weeks after the publication of this Resolution, to develop and submit for approval by the Executive Committees the tariffs for all the enterprises mentioned in this Resolution. Simultaneously with the approval of the Executive Committees and the introduction of tariffs, those are sent for approval by the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Internal Affairs and the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Finance.

Signed by:

Chairman of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

For the Administrator of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars V.

Smolyaninov.

Secretary L. Fotieva .

August 25, 1921.

Published in No. 193 Izvestia of the All‐Russian Central Executive

Committee of Soviets dated September 1, 1921.