The Essence of the Occupancy Institution
The acceptance of a building into exploitation is the legal fact that completes the construction process: once the object is recognised as fit, its lawful use for its designated purpose becomes possible. Article 139 of the Code of Georgia on Spatial Planning, Architectural and Construction Activity regulates this process according to the classes of buildings: a class I building is not subject to recognition as fit for acceptance into exploitation, while the rules for the acceptance into exploitation of buildings of classes II, III and IV are determined by a legal act of the Government of Georgia. This means that the concrete administrative procedure — which organ issues the act, which documentation it requires and in what format the inspection takes place — is established by the government's act, and its precise knowledge is needed both by the developer and by the future purchaser of the building.