Article 9. Powers of the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Uzbekistan and its subordinate organizations

The Ministry of Transport and its subordinate organizations:

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

draft, within their powers, regulatory legal acts and normative documents in this field;

exercise state control within their powers in this field;

develop and implement measures in this field and approve methodological guidelines for their implementation;

organize and carry out traffic monitoring on public roads;

by agreement with the State Road Traffic Safety Service, prepare projects for installing technical means of traffic organization on public roads, and carry out their installation, replacement, removal, and maintenance;

maintain siting records of such technical means and exercise state control over their compliance with siting requirements and their technical condition;

identify hazardous road sections and take measures to improve traffic organization on them;

conduct audits of traffic organization projects;

introduce information and communication technologies in traffic organization, road use, and logistics/services for road users;

organize training, retraining, and advanced training of specialists employed in this sphere;

maintain a register of parking areas, including paid parking, located along public roads;

determine routes for vehicles carrying heavy, oversize, dangerous, and special cargoes and coordinate the placement of roadside service facilities;

review and agree, with respect to the traffic-organization portion, projects for the construction, reconstruction, and capital repair of roads, railway crossings, filling stations, and other roadside service facilities;

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

establish the procedure for the use, opening, and closing of railway crossings;

in order to preserve the technical condition of roads and road engineering structures under extreme climatic conditions, including high air temperatures, restrict, in the prescribed manner and at certain times of day, the movement of N2, N3 and M3 category vehicles.

The Ministry of Transport and its subordinate organizations may exercise other powers in accordance with legislation.