Homeowners want to avoid shoveling the municipality's roads

"Homeowners want to avoid shoveling the municipality's roads"

"the Snow lies like a blanket over the country and for the owners of small houses, it can mean that you are expected to chop while in the snöskyffeln and addressing the municipality's walkways."

"Now turn Villaägarnas Association against the law that gives municipalities the right to put the responsibility on homeowners."

"We hope that the picks remove this outdated law," says Ulf Stenberg, general counsel at Villaägarnas Association."

"According to a study from 2012 allows around 60 per cent of the country's municipalities småhusägarna themselves responsible for snow removal on the walkways and driveways around houses. According to Ulf Stenberg, general counsel at Villaägarnas Association, adopted about the same effect today."

"the Municipalities have the legal right to assign the maintenance work like snow shoveling and lövkrattning on the walkways to the accommodation. In a letter to the government calls on you now to change."

"– the Entire legislation is outdated. This is based on the 1868 year of regulations that in turn are based on what was in the past in many towns and cities in Sweden. At that time, it is not modern snow plows. Then, it was somewhere to get people to pitch in with snöskyffel, but it has happened so very, very much on the here 150-200 years, and then we think that there is reason to review it here, " says Ulf Stenberg."

"He believes that the quality of the removal of the snow varies greatly when you put the responsibility on småhusägarna and that poorly cleared walkways increases the chances of people falling and hitting themselves."

"– Those who maintain this do not always manage it because of age, illness, disability, vacation or that they are at work, " says Stenberg, and continues:"

"– Then it is very strange that we are both going to maintain someone else's property and there shall be imposed a liability for lack of maintenance of this."

"According to Ulf Stenberg usually the argument in order to preserve the law be about cost."

"– But then the question is if you look at the costs of this do not work properly. It is a lot like fall or hit themselves, which gives the cost of medical care and sick leave, " he says."