What fines can turn into a car wash in the country with your own hands

Whatever virus is raging in the minds of the population, a normal summer resident will not miss the opportunity to spend the May holidays on his "hacienda". Washing the car under its windows is one of the indispensable attributes of this pastoral. But, as the AvtoVzglyad portal found out, even such a peaceful activity can sometimes end in a fine.

In principle, both federal and local laws in most regions of the country do not interfere with the process of washing a car on a private property owned by its owner. Including in the backyard. But only until the moment when the water contaminated with oil products and auto chemicals flows out of the site and enters the soil.

In practice, no one monitors the penetration of these liquids into the environment. However, no one canceled the existence of a neighbor-"activist" nearby. Don’t feed such citizens with bread, let’s just film some kind of violation (it doesn’t matter - real or imaginary) and ring about it on all possible Internets for the sake of the greater hype of the author of the video content.

“A flagrant violation of natural law” in the form of washing a car by a neighbor in the country may well fit for these purposes. Such a “stink” in social networks can turn into an interest in your person on the part of some environmental prosecutor’s office – if, for example, law enforcement officers currently have problems with reporting on such “crimes”. And because of washing the car, for example, on the street in front of the gates of the dacha, the car owner can definitely draw quite real problems.

Note that at the moment there are no direct prohibitions and penalties for such violations in the federal Russian legislation. In this sense, it is more worth being wary of regional regulations.

Not everywhere, but in many constituent entities of the Russian Federation, fines are set for washing a car outside the established places (and a village street clearly does not belong to such places). Their value varies from region to region. But so far, individuals have not been punished anywhere for more than 5000 rubles for this.

The lucky ones who have a house on the banks of the river should keep in mind that it is definitely contraindicated for them to wash the vehicle outside their own area. There is such a thing as a water protection zone of a reservoir. This is not about a fire pond, but about any, in fact, a flowing reservoir, even a village dam, a stream, flowing from which eventually flows into some river. For them, the water protection zone has quite clear boundaries, which, as a rule, lie at a distance of 50-200 meters from the water's edge.

Washing a car at the gate of your own house, but in the water protection zone, means trouble already from the federal Administrative Code. First of all, for violation of the requirements for the protection of water bodies, "which may lead to their pollution, clogging and (or) depletion." And any policeman, forester, or fishery officer can draw up a protocol under Article 8.13 of the Code of Administrative Offenses with a fine of 1500-2000 rubles.

At the same time, under Article 8.42 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, for violating the “special regime of economic and other activities on the coastal protective strip of a reservoir,” a motorist can get a fine of 3000–4500 rubles. Thus, washing a personal car with your own hands, if you do not follow some rules, can cost a tidy sum.