Article 12. Obligations of republican executive authorities, economic management bodies, and local state authority bodies in the field of telecommunications

Republican executive authorities, economic management bodies, and hokimiyats shall create conditions within their powers for the effective operation and development of public telecommunication networks for the purpose of providing electronic state services to individuals and legal entities.

The specially authorized state body in the field of urban planning activity, together with interested republican executive authorities and hokimiyats, must mandatorily provide for the following requirements at the stages of developing and coordinating tasks and design and estimate documentation for the design of public, administrative, residential, and industrial buildings and structures:

allocation of appropriate spaces and engineering infrastructure for the installation of telecommunication means in buildings, with electricity supply provided to them;

existence of low-voltage cable shafts inside buildings for laying cables for telephony, data transmission networks, the global information network Internet, systems for collective reception of cable and terrestrial television, as well as the "safe house" system and burglar alarms;

allocation of appropriate land plots in public, administrative, residential, and industrial areas for laying communication lines and installing telecommunication means;

inclusion of base stations of mobile communication networks in regional and district centers, as well as central hubs of telecommunications operators and providers, and television and radio broadcasting facilities in the list of objects that are not disconnected from the electrical networks.