Federal Law No. 26-FZ on natural curative resources, medicinal and sanitary localities and health resorts.

The Federal Law consists of 9 Sections that contain 22 articles. Natural curative resources, medicinal and sanitary localities and health resorts are national property of the peoples of the Russian Federation destined for cure and recreation of the population and pertain to protected areas and territories with proper particulars in their use and protection. The present Federal Law determines the principles of state policy and regulates relations in the sphere of study, use, development and protection of natural curative resources, medicinal and sanitary localities and health resorts on the territory of the Russian Federation. The present Federal Law establishes the particulars of the use of natural curative resources, specifies regulation in the sphere of spa treatment and recreational use of curative resources, sanitary (mountain sanitary) resources, protection thereof, sets forth the modalities of dispute settlement and establishes liability for the infringement of the present Federal Law.