Article 10. Powers of the State Road Traffic Safety Service in the field of road traffic

The State Road Traffic Safety Service:

participates in the development and implementation of state programs in this field;

drafts, within its powers, regulatory legal acts and normative documents in this field;

exercises, within its powers, state control over compliance with road traffic legislation;

participates in determining routes for vehicles carrying heavy, oversize, dangerous, and special cargoes;

reviews and agrees, with respect to the traffic-organization portion, projects for the construction, reconstruction, and capital repair of roads, railway crossings, filling stations, and other facilities located along roads and in roadside areas;

participates in the work of commissions that accept completed road facilities and railway crossings for operation after construction (reconstruction) and capital repairs;

supervises the technical condition of vehicles in use and conducts mandatory technical inspection of vehicles (except M1-category vehicles owned by individuals);

organizes and conducts traffic monitoring;

supervises the technical condition of the technical means of traffic organization and the maintenance, equipping and regulation of roads and railway crossings;

in the prescribed manner, prohibits the use of roads and railway crossings that do not meet the requirements of normative documents in this sphere;

carries out activities on traffic organization;

issues instructions to road owners regarding the installation or removal of technical means of traffic organization and supervises the deadlines and quality of compliance;

restricts or prohibits, in accordance with Article 23 of this Law, vehicle movement on a road (or section thereof);

introduces information and communication technologies into the road traffic sphere;

considers coordinated proposals with relevant organizations on performing works on roads and in roadside areas;

within its powers, submits mandatory written proposals (prescriptions) to state bodies and other organizations, and their officials, to eliminate shortcomings in installing and using technical means of traffic organization, and, where a situation arises on any road section that threatens traffic safety or allows violations of the Rules of the Road; if such prescriptions are not complied with, applies administrative penalties;