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SUPPLEMENT
GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
RESOLUTION of July 17, 1995 ¹ 713
In compliance with the Law of the Russian Federation «On the Right of Russian Citizens to Freedom of Movement and Choice of Place of Stay or Residence on the Territory of the Russian Federation» (Gazette of the Congress of People’s Deputies of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation , 1993, ¹ 32, Article 1227) the Government of the Russian Federation decrees as follows:
1. To approve the attached Rules of Registration or Striking Off the Register of Russian Citizens at the Place of Stay or Residence on the Territory of the Russian Federation and the List of Officials Responsible for Registration.
2. To commit the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, on an agreement with the concerned federal executive bodies, to issue in a three-month period an instruction on application of the Rules of Registration or Striking Off the Register of Russian Citizens at the Place of Stay or Residence on the Territory of the Russian Federation approved by this Resolution.
3. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation shall in a three-month period submit in an established order proposals on bringing the legal acts of the Russian Federation in line with the Law of the Russian Federation «On the Right of Russian Citizens to Freedom of Movement and Choice of Place of Stay or Residence on the Territory of the Russian Federation».
4. Executive bodies of the Russian Federation and of the federal entities shall bring their decisions in line with the Law of the Russian Federation «On the Right of the Russian Citizens to Freedom of Movement and Choice of Place of Stay or Residence on the Territory of the Russian Federation».
5. The following resolutions of the Government of the Russian Federation shall be amended:
Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation
V.CHERNOMYRDIN
Attachment
1. These Rules, in conformity with the Fundamental Law of the Russian Federation, the Law of the Russian Federation «On the Right of Russian Citizens to Freedom of Movement and Choice of Place of Stay or Residence on the Territory of the Russian Federation», housing, civil and other codes of the Russian Federation, regulate the procedure of registration or striking off the register (hereinafter called «registration») of Russian citizens (hereinafter called «citizens») at the place of stay or residence on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Registration is meant to provide necessary conditions for citizens to exercise their rights and freedoms and also to comply with their obligations in respect to other citizens, the state and society.
2. The registration bodies in the cities, towns, villages, closed military settlements, and also in settlements situated in the border regions or closed administrative areas, where there are bodies of internal affairs, are the bodies of internal affairs, and in other settlements these are the bodies of local self-government.
3. Place of stay is a place where a citizen is staying temporarily — a hotel, health center, holiday home, guest house, camping, hospital, tourist center or other similar facilities, or residential premises which are not the citizen’s permanent place of residence.
Place of residence is a place where a citizen lives permanently or most of time as an owner, tenant (by a contract of lease, sublease, social lease, rent) or in any other capacity stipulated by the legislation of the Russian Federation: a residential house, apartment, an enterprise’s residential premises, specialized housing (hostel, charity lodging, house of the «maneuver housing fund», home for single and aged people, home for disabled persons and invalids, home for veterans, etc.) as well as other residential premises (quoted from Resolution of the RF Government of February 14, 1997 ¹ 172).
4. Registration of citizens at the place of stay or residence is entrusted to the officials who occupy, permanently or temporarily, the posts that imply the performance of organizational, managerial or administrative functions in order to control the observance of rules of using housing premises and premises of special designation.
Citizens are obliged to register at the registration bodies to which the place of stay or residence is assigned and to observe these Rules.
Control over the observation of the present Rules by citizens and officials is entrusted to the bodies of internal affairs.
5. The following documents which identify a citizen (hereinafter «identification documents») are required for registration:
6. Forms of applications, certificates and other documents certifying the registration of citizens at the place of stay or residence and of corresponding stamps are approved by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Forms of statistical records and the procedure of document turnover between the registration and statistical bodies are approved by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation on an agreement with the State Statistics Committee of the Russian Federation.
7. In border regions, closed military settlements, closed administrative areas, zones of ecological disaster, areas or settlements where special conditions of living and of economic activities have been introduced due to a threat of spreading mass infectious or non-infectious diseases or poisoning of people, areas where an emergency situation or martial law has been introduced, and also in other cases envisaged by the Federal Law, registration of citizens at the place of stay or residence is made with regard to the restrictions established by the Federal Law (quoted from Resolution of the RF Government of April 23, 1996 ¹ 512).
8. Violation of these Rules entails the liability of officials and citizens in conformity with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
9. A citizen who comes to stay temporarily on housing premises which are not his place of residence for a period over 10 days has to apply in three days since the date of arrival (excluding days off) to the officials responsible for registration and submit the following documents:
In the absence of housing-management bodies, when a citizen is moving to the residential premises owned by another individual or a legal entity, the mentioned documents are presented to this individual or the legal entity’s representative who controls the use of the residential premises.
10. A citizen can be registered at the place of stay which is not his place of residence for a period up to 6 months (quoted from Resolutions of the RF Government of April 23, 1996 ¹ 512 and of February 14, 1997 ¹ 172).
In exceptional cases when a registered citizen or his relative(s) falls ill or in case of other circumstances preventing the citizen’s departure from the place of stay, the term of stay may be prolonged by the registration body for a required period in the order established by Clause 9 of these Rules (quoted from Resolution of the RF Government of February 14, 1997 ¹ 172).
11. Officials responsible for registration as well as individuals or legal entities who lease the residential premises they own to other people must in three days since the day of application of the citizen who comes to stay, hand in the documents listed in Clause 9 of these Rules to the registration bodies.
12. Registration bodies must in three days upon submission of such documents register the citizen at the place of stay on residential premises which are not his place of residence, and provide him a certificate testifying his registration at the place of stay.
In the cases stipulated by the RF legislation a citizen is denied registration at the place of stay which is not his place of residence if (quoted from Resolution of the RF Government of February 14, 1997 ¹ 172):
a) he doesn’t have a consent in writing from:
Children who haven’t come of age are registered at the place of stay of their parents (adopter, guardian) regardless of the consent of the persons listed in this sub-clause;
b) a citizen occupied the housing premises without permission or built a house or attachment to a house without permission and rents it to other individuals;
c) the residential premises privately owned by an individual or legal entity and rented on conditions of lease, sublease, rent or social rent have been sequestered in view of criminal investigation or on any other ground envisaged by the RF legislation (quoted from Resolution of the RF Government of February 14, 1997 ¹ 172);
d) the documents submitted to the registration body turned out to be false.
13. If a citizen is denied registration at the place of stay the registration body has to inform him in three days upon submission of documents on the cause(s) of the refusal;
In case a registration body denies registration to a citizen the latter may lodge a complaint with a superior official or a superior registration body, or with the court of justice.
14. Registration of citizens at the place of stay in a hotel, health center, holiday home, guest house, camping, hospital, tourist center or other similar facilities is done by the administration of said facilities on presentation of the identification document.
15. A citizen is registered at the place of stay without striking him off the register at the place of residence.
16. A citizen who has changed his place of residence has to apply not later than 7 days since his arrival to a new place of residence to the officials in charge of registration and submit the following documents:
In the absence of housing-management bodies, when a citizen is moving to residential premises owned by an individual or a legal entity, the mentioned documents are presented to this individual or the legal entity’s representative who controls the use of the residential premises.
17. Officials responsible for registration as well as individuals or legal entities who lend the residential premises they own to other people must in three days since the day of application of the individual who comes to live in said premises, hand in the documents listed in Clause 16 of these Rules, together with the address arrival certificate and the relevant statistical forms to the registration bodies.
18. Registration bodies must in three days upon the acceptance of the documents register a citizen at the place of residence, and make a note in his passport on registration at the place of residence. An individual who is registered on the basis of other identification documents is given a certificate on registration at the place of residence.
19. In accordance with the established registration procedure a citizen who is on the military record is registered by registration bodies after he has been registered at a corresponding military registration body.
20. An individual has to pay stamp duty for registration at the place of residence in the amount and according to the procedure envisaged by the Law of the Russian Federation «On Stamp Duty».
21. In the cases envisaged by the Federal Law a citizen is denied registration at the place of residence if (quoted from Resolution of the RF Government of April 23, 1996 ¹ 512, of February 14, 1997 ¹ 172) :
a) a building (housing premises) threatens to break down;
b) the size of housing area per one resident will be less than the norm of housing area established by the federal housing law – when concluding a contract of lease, sublease, rent, social rent (quoted from Resolution of the RF Government of April 23, 1996 ¹ 512, of February 14, 1997 ¹ 172);
c) there is a court ruling prohibiting a citizen deprived of parents’ rights to live together with his children under 18;
d) a housing certificate entitling a citizen to the housing premises as well as a transaction entailing an establishment or a change of the right of possession, use and/or disposal of the housing premises (contract of lease, sublease, rent, social rent, sale, gift, exchange, etc.) or another document certifying the right of ownership to housing premises have been recognized invalid in a legally established order (quoted from the Resolution of the RF Government of February 14, 1997 ¹ 172).
A citizen is denied registration at the place of residence in the cases mentioned in Clause 12 of these Rules, or on other grounds envisaged by the Federal Law (quoted from Resolution of the RF Government of April 23, 1996, ¹ 512; of February 14, 1997, ¹ 172).
22. If a citizen is denied registration at the place of residence the registration bodies must in three days upon submission of the documents give him an answer in writing on the cause(s) of refusal.
In case a registration body denies registration to a citizen the latter may lodge a complaint with a superior official or a superior registration body, or with the court of justice.
23. A serviceman is registered :
Servicemen on contract, called up officers and their families are registered by registration bodies at the place of deployment of a military unit in an established order, before they are provided housing.
24. A citizen not registered at the place of residence is registered at the place of stay in an order established by these Rules.
25. A citizen who lives on the territory of a monastery, church or other religious premises is registered in the order established by these Rules, on submission of an application of a fixed form and identification documents.
26. A citizen whose occupation or duty presupposes permanent moving or traveling (sea or river ship, geological or prospecting expedition, search and rescue mission, construction or mechanized mobile unit) is registered at the location of a corresponding shipping agency, organization or institution.
27. A citizen who applies to the Federal Migration Service or its local branches asking to recognize him as a refugee or forced migrant is registered at the place of stay on the basis of a warrant for temporary residence issued by these bodies.
Refugees and forced migrants are registered at the place of residence on the basis of identification documents and a refugee or forced migrant certificate issued by the Federal Migration Service or its local branches in a legally established order.
28. A citizen under 14 (who didn’t come of age) who live with his parents (adopter, guardian) is registered at the place of residence on the basis of identification documents of parents (adopter) or a document testifying to guardianship, and the citizen’s birth certificate by entering data on him in the house register or file card of his parents (adopter, guardian).
A citizen of 14 to 16 years of age (who didn’t come of age) is registered at the place of residence on the basis of his birth certificate and is given a certificate on registration at the place of residence.
29. A citizen under 14 (who didn’t come of age) is registered at the place of stay on the basis of the identification documents of his parents (adopter, guardian) or close relatives, and the citizen’s birth certificate.
A citizen of 14 to 16 years of age (who didn’t come of age) is registered on the basis of his birth certificate and is given a certificate on registration at the place of stay.
V. Striking individuals off the register at the place of stay or residence
30. A citizen is considered to be taken off the register at the place of stay on the residential premises which are not his permanent place of residence upon the expiration of the term of stay established in Clause 10 of these Rules, and in case of hotel, health center, holiday home, guest house, camping, hospital, tourist center or other similar facilities — upon leaving them.
A citizen who has been refused by the Federal Migration Service or its local branches to be recognized as a refugee or forced migrant is taken off the register on the basis of information on the refusal provided by this service to the registration bodies.
31. A citizen is taken off the register at the place of residence by the registration bodies in the following cases:
a) changing the place of residence – on the basis of a citizen’s application for registration at a new place of residence. In this case the registration body responsible for registration at the new place of residence must in three days since the date of registration send a relevant notice to the registration body at the last place of residence to strike the citizen off their register;
b) a citizen is called up to the military service – upon receiving a notice from the military registration and enlistment office;
c) a citizen has been convicted and sentenced to imprisonment – on the basis of a legally enforced court ruling;
d) a citizen has been recognized as absent in place unknown – on the basis of a legally enforced court ruling;
e) in case of death or a court ruling to consider a citizen dead – on the basis of a death certificate registered in a legally established order;
f) in case of eviction from the housing premises or if a citizen is recognized to have lost the right to use them – on the basis of a legally enforced court ruling;
g) it has been found that the data or documents on the basis of which a citizen was registered proved to be false, or that the decision of the officials on registration was made in violation of law – on the basis of a legally enforced court ruling.
32. When striking a citizen off the register at the place of residence on the grounds envisaged in sub-clauses c, d, e, f and g of Clause 31 of these Rules the relevant documents can be submitted by concerned individuals or legal entities.
33. Registration bodies strike citizens off the register at the place of residence on the basis of submitted documents in a three-day period. A relevant note is made in the passports of citizens who have been taken off the register at the place of residence (except those dead, as well as those recognized absent in place unknown, recognized dead or those who left for a new place of residence without being taken off the register). A note on striking off the register at the place of residence of citizens registered on the grounds of other identification documents is made in the certificate on registration of such citizens at the place of residence.
34. Citizens who must be on the military record are taken off the register in accordance with the established procedure after he has been taken off the register of the military registration and enlistment office.
Officials:
GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
RESOLUTION of March 12, 1997, ¹ 290
The Government of the Russian Federation decrees as follows:
To extend the Rules of Registration and Striking the Citizens of the Russian Federation Off the Register at the Place of Stay or Residence on the Territory of the Russian Federation, approved by Resolution of the RF Government of July 17, 1995 ¹ 713 (Collection of Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation, 1995, ¹ 30, Article 2939; 1996, ¹ 18, Article 2144) to the citizens of the former USSR who are coming from the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States and Baltic countries.
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