Article 20. Commandant of the Territory

For the implementation of unified control of forces and means ensuring the state of emergency, in the territory where the state of emergency has been imposed, a commandant of the territory shall be appointed by decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

The commandant of the territory shall be subordinate to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and when the State Commission created — to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the chairperson of the State Commission.

The commandant of the territory shall:

issue, within their powers, orders and directives on issues of ensuring the state of emergency in the territory where the state of emergency has been introduced, binding on the relevant territory by all government bodies (their structural divisions), local government bodies, self-government bodies of citizens, organizations, officials, citizens;

establish the time and duration of the curfew;

determine a special regime for entering the territory where the state of emergency has been introduced and exiting it;

take measures to prohibit the sale of weapons, ammunition, explosives, special means, poisonous substances, medicines and preparations containing narcotic drugs and their analogues, psychotropic and potent substances, ethyl alcohol, alcoholic products;

determine the procedure and places for the storage of weapons and ammunition temporarily seized from citizens, from organizations — weapons and ammunition for it, special means, explosive, poisonous and radioactive substances, as well as military-combat training equipment;

deport, in accordance with the established procedure, from the territory where the state of emergency has been introduced, persons violating the regime of the state of emergency, to a territory that does not pose a danger to the life, health and safety of the person being deported;

address the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan or the Chairperson of the State Commission with reasonable proposals on the need to apply in the territory where the state of emergency is introduced, additional emergency measures and temporary restrictions provided for in Articles 12 , 13 and 14 of this Constitutional Law, which have not yet been applied in accordance with the decree the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the imposition of a state of emergency;

submit proposals to the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan on additional funding for measures to ensure the state of emergency in the territory where the state of emergency has been introduced;