Article 53. Protective zones of railway transport

In order to ensure the safety of the population, railway transport employees, passengers, animals, as well as safety during the operation of railway stations, railway tracks, power supply and communication lines, and to ensure the preservation, strength, and stability of structures, facilities, and other railway transport objects, including those located in areas with unstable soil and in territories subject to sand drifts, landslides, ground subsidence, erosion, mudflows and other hazardous natural impacts, protective zones shall be established — territories adjoining both sides of the right-of-way.

A special land-use regime shall be established for land plots within protective zones, under which the owners, users, or lessees of such land plots shall have the right to economic use subject to the following restrictions:

industrial and civil construction shall be prohibited;

any works shall be prohibited without the consent of the body authorized by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan to maintain the State Railway Cadastre.

The procedure for establishing protective zones, their dimensions, and the regime for the use of land allocated for these purposes shall be determined by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan.