Summer residents are reminded of their responsibility for growing prohibited plants on their plots

The owner is responsible for prohibited plants on the site, even if he did not know about them and their legal status. Lawyer and expert in the field of land and property relations Denis Kuznetsov drew attention to this in a comment to the Public News Service on March 27.

Owners of land plots need to be more careful, because if we take the rule of law, then guilt occurs regardless of whether the person knew or did not know what plant grows on his plot and whether it is prohibitedsaid the lawyer.

He noted that criminal liability arises when prohibited flora is grown in large quantities, since this indicates deliberate cultivation with intent. Administrative fines for 1-2 plants are issued mainly based on complaints from neighbors or the chairman of a dacha association.

Kuznetsov also emphasized that since March 2026, a law has been in force in Russia obliging land owners to fight hogweed. Previously, such requirements mainly concerned only agricultural land, but now apply to all land plots. The expert advised regularly inspecting your territories and promptly destroying both hogweed and plants with narcotic substances from the approved list.

The publication’s interlocutor added that if a summer resident received a fine for accidentally growing plants, he can raise objections at the stage of consideration of the violation by the land supervision authority, and if a fine is imposed, appeal it in court by providing evidence. For example, you can try to confirm that the plants grew in the absence of the owner of the site and he did not have time to mow them. At the same time, according to Kuznetsov, practice in such administrative cases is extremely scarce.

He also recalled that improper care of the site can lead to more serious consequences, including its removal.

Since March 2026, owners and users of any land plots — summer residents, tenants, organizations — are required to identify and destroy dangerous invasive plants. Growing plants with narcotic substances is punishable by a fine of up to 300,000 rubles or imprisonment for a term of 2 to 8 years (Article 231 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The list of such plants (19 species in total) was approved by the Government of the Russian Federation.

source: «Parliamentary newspaper»

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