Right of Limited Use of Another Person's Land Plot (Servitude)

General Provisions

According to Article 23 of the Land Code of the Russian Federation, a servitude is established in accordance with civil legislation.

A public servitude is established by law or other normative legal act of the Russian Federation, a normative legal act of a subject of the Russian Federation, or a normative legal act of a local self-government body in cases where this is necessary to ensure the interests of the state, local self-government, or local population, without expropriation of land plots. The establishment of a public servitude is carried out taking into account the results of public hearings.

Public servitudes may be established for:

1) passage or transit through a land plot, including in order to ensure free access of citizens to a public water object and its shore zone;

2) use of a land plot for repair of utility, engineering, electrical, and other lines and networks, as well as transport infrastructure objects;

3) placement on a land plot of boundary and geodetic marks and access roads to them;

4) conducting drainage works on a land plot;

5) withdrawal (expropriation) of water resources from water objects and watering.