Federal Law No. 217-FZ “On gardening and horticulture for individual personal needs”.

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July 2017

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Russian

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LEX-FAOC172684

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This Federal Law regulates the issues of gardening and horticulture by citizens for individual personal needs (subsistence farming), determines civil and legal status of non-commercial organizations constituted by citizens for gardening and truck farming in accordance with the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. Owners of plots of agricultural land destined for gardening and horticulture and citizens wishing to purchase such plots in accordance with land legislation can constitute non-commercial gardening and horticultural associations. Plots of agricultural land destined for gardening and horticulture out of stock of public and municipal land can be allotted to gardening and horticultural associations and members thereof free of charge in cases by federal and regional legislation.

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