6 behaviors that caused the apartment building management board to be fined up to 60 million VND

Legal Consulting Department of Lao Dong Newspaper answers:

Clause 3, Article 61, Decree 339/2026/ND-CP stipulates penalties for administrative violations in the fields of construction, management of technical infrastructure works, management, housing development, and real estate business (effective from August 26, 2026), stipulating fines from 50 million VND to 60 million VND for apartment building management boards for one of the following acts:

a) Management and use of maintenance funds not in accordance with regulations;

b) Arbitrarily changing the function and purpose of using the common ownership and common use of the apartment building;

c) Deciding on the price of apartment building management and operation services without approving the Apartment Building Conference;

d) Improperly implementing operating regulations or financial revenue and expenditure regulations approved by the Apartment Building Conference;

e) Not establishing an account to manage and use maintenance funds for the common ownership part of the apartment building as prescribed;

e) Not publicizing the use of maintenance funds for the common ownership part of the apartment building as prescribed.

Clause 4, Article 5 of Decree 339/2026/ND-CP stipulates:

a) The penalty level for administrative violations specified in this Decree is the penalty level applied to organizations, except for the cases specified in point b of this clause. For the same administrative violation, the penalty level applied to individuals is equal to half of the penalty level applied to organizations;

b) The fine level for administrative violations specified in Clause 1, Article 10; Clause 1, Article 13; Clause 1, Clause 2, Clause 3, Article 54; Clause 1, Clause 2, Article 57; Clause 1, Article 58; Clause 1, Article 61; Clause 1, Clause 2, Clause 3, Article 62; Point a, Point b, Point d Clause 2, Article 64; Clause 1, Article 73; Clause 1, Article 74 of this Decree is the penalty level applied to individuals.

Thus, from August 26, 2026, the apartment building management board may be fined up to 60 million VND for the above groups of acts.