Article 3. Basic concepts

The following basic concepts are applied in this Code:

settlement — an administrative-territorial unit of the Republic of Uzbekistan (city, township, village, aul), indicated by legal status, name and border;

settlement master plan — an urban planning document that defines the main directions of the territorial development of a settlement and the conditions for the integrated development of a favorable environment for the life of citizens;

inter-settlement territories — territories outside the boundaries of settlements between two or more settlements;

settlement border line — the external border of the lands of a settlement established by urban planning documentation, separating them from other categories of land fund;

settlement system — the main directions of the regulated distribution of the population in the relevant territory determined by urban planning documentation by developing existing and creating new settlements;

building — a construction system consisting of base, enclosing or combined components, forming a closed volume, designed for people to live or stay, depending on the functional purpose and for performing various types of production processes;

customer — an individual or legal entity that ensures the implementation of construction, reconstruction, repair and demolition of objects, as well as concludes for these purposes contracts with the relevant organizations for the production of design and survey, expert, construction and installation and supervision works;

zoning — dividing a territory according to its functional purpose in urban planning for its development by determining the types of urban planning use and restrictions thereof;

structures — a volumetric, planar or linear building system, consisting of base, enclosing or combined structures, designed to perform various types of production processes, storage of material assets, temporary stay (movement) of people, as well as placement (laying, wiring) of equipment or communications;

production facilities — buildings and structures intended for the location of production with the provided necessary conditions for the work of people and technological equipment;

red lines — boundaries established by the urban planning documentation separating the territories of quarters, microdistricts and other elements of the planning structure from the streets, driveways and areas of settlements;