Regional Law No. 263-ZO “On state support of horticulture, gardening and suburban subsistence farming.”

This Regional Law establishes the forms of state support of horticulture, gardening and suburban subsistence farming. The following measures of state support shall be granted on the regional territory: (a) implementation of educational and campaigning work in order to popularize horticulture, gardening and suburban subsistence farming; (b) reimbursement within the framework of regional state programs for account of targeted contributions of the costs of engineering support of territories of associations; (c) establishment for associations of standards for payments for electrical energy, water, gas, telephone set for rural population and categories of consumers equated thereto; (d) setting the maximum size of garden and vegetable garden land plots provided to citizens in ownership; (e) establishing the maximum size of land plots for horticulture and gardening allotted to citizens in ownership free of charge from public land, owned by the region; (f) participation in the creation of rental funds by providing funds in the amount of 50 percent of the total amount of contributions to the rental fund; (g) providing associations with production and technical products with construction waste; (h) construction and repair of roads, lines of power transmission, water supply and sewerage systems, gas supply, communications or by connecting to existing power lines, systems water supply and sewerage; (i) organization and conduct of tenders for programs and investment projects for the development of infrastructures of the territories of associations; (j) ensuring transportation with suburban transport of gardeners, truck farmers, summer residents and members of their families to their partnership territories; and (k) establishment of the procedure for the provision of trading places for sale of agricultural commodities to citizens.