Article 21. Development of telecommunications infrastructure

Telecommunications infrastructure consists of a complex of telecommunication means.

Telecommunications infrastructure, regardless of the form of ownership, shall belong to the objects of engineering and communication infrastructure.

The development and reconstruction of telecommunications infrastructure shall be carried out by their owners at their own expense, the funds of interested individuals and legal entities, and other sources not prohibited by legislation.

The development and reconstruction of telecommunications infrastructure intended for solving state-wide tasks shall be carried out on the basis of state programs and other programs approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan and financed in the manner established by legislation.

Individuals and legal entities participating in the implementation of projects for the development and reconstruction of telecommunications infrastructure may be granted temporary tax benefits and other benefits in the manner established by legislation.

During the design and development of cities, towns, and other settlements, residential quarters and complexes, individual buildings and structures, hokimiyats must provide for the construction of buildings or separate rooms for placing telecommunication means and the allocation of places for the construction of underground communication lines in accordance with established standards. Hokimiyats and officials who unjustifiably refuse to allocate land (space) for these purposes shall be held liable in the manner established by law.

The construction and acceptance for operation of public, administrative, residential, and industrial buildings and structures not provided with telecommunication means, including cable duct systems, low-voltage cable shafts, spaces for placing telecommunications equipment, and other necessary passive telecommunications infrastructure, shall not be allowed.

Legal entities have the right to carry out the construction of telecommunications structures on land plots granted for this purpose in the established manner, as well as to install and service telecommunication means on the roofs of buildings and structures (on supports, bridges, collectors, underground passages, and other structures) in agreement with the owners (possessors, tenants) of these land plots, buildings, and structures.

In connection with the new construction, expansion, or reconstruction of settlements, buildings, roads, bridges, and other objects, as well as the development of new lands, changes in land reclamation systems, extraction of minerals, and changes in their owner, the relocation or reconstruction of telecommunications infrastructure shall be carried out at the expense of the owner of the said object, the customer, or the initiator of the construction of this object, according to the technical conditions of operators and providers.