Article 27. Competence of local executive bodies of regions, cities of republican significance, the capital Water Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan

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1. Local executive bodies of regions, cities of republican significance, the capital:

1) participate in the implementation of state policy in the field of protection and use of water resources within their competence;

2) participate in the implementation of state policy in the field of water supply and sanitation of settlements within their competence;

3) establish water protection zones, strips and the regime of their economic use in coordination with basin water inspections;

4) take measures to ensure the safety of water management and hydraulic structures in the relevant territories;

5) organize measures to eliminate the consequences of emergency situations at water bodies, water management and hydraulic structures, water supply and sanitation systems of settlements;

6) organize the management of water management and hydraulic engineering facilities that are in communal ownership, and take measures to maintain them in a technically sound condition;

7) keep records of water management and hydraulic engineering structures that are in communal ownership, as well as ownerless water management structures located in the relevant territory;

8) carry out procedures stipulated by the civil legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the conversion of ownerless water facilities into communal ownership;

9) subsidize the cost of water supply services to agricultural producers;

10) reimburse part of the expenses incurred by the subject of the agro-industrial complex for the introduction of water-saving irrigation technologies;

11) annually develop payment rates for the use of water resources from surface sources;

12) annually, until May 1, post information on the Internet resource on the amount of income for the previous year received by the budget of the region, the city of republican significance, the capital as a fee for the use of surface water resources and the tax on mining for groundwater, as well as the amount of budget expenditures directed to measures to protect water fund;

13) provide for and implement measures for the protection of the water fund, water conservation and improvement of the efficiency of water resources use, development of water management and hydraulic structures as part of the documents of the State Planning System of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the implementation of basin plans for the protection and use of the water fund;

14) participate in the work of basin councils, submit recommendations for the protection and use of water resources, water supply, and sanitation of settlements for consideration by basin councils;

15) take measures to implement the recommendations of the basin councils;

16) organize works on sanitation of surface water bodies;

17) carry out, within their competence, an assessment of vulnerability to climate change;

18) determine priorities and measures for adaptation of the water sector of the economy to climate change within their competence, carry out their implementation;

19) monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of measures to adapt the water sector of the economy to climate change, defined within their competence, and adjust these measures based on their results;

20) organize the creation of engineering systems for the protection of settlements, industrial facilities, agricultural lands, transport infrastructure facilities, hazardous production facilities for protection from flood and meltwater and (or) their drainage and (or) redistribution to replenish reservoirs, lake systems and groundwater deposits;

21) organize afforestation of floodplain areas of surface water bodies, protective afforestation in territories under their functional jurisdiction to prevent harmful effects of water and prevent artificial droughts, taking into account the conclusions of basin plans for the protection and use of water resources;

22) inform the population about the ongoing work on the protection and use of the water fund, the technical condition of water management and hydraulic structures, water supply and sanitation systems of settlements owned by municipalities;

23) organize water supply and sanitation in settlements in the relevant administrative-territorial units, in the absence of centralized water supply in the territory of the settlement, organize non-centralized water supply using water supply, drinking water distribution points, and a complex of block modules;

24) determine the reserve sources of drinking water supply in coordination with the authorized body;

25) subsidize the costs of water supply and (or) sanitation organizations for repayment and servicing of loans from international financial organizations involved in the implementation of projects for expansion, modernization, reconstruction, renovation, maintenance of existing assets and the creation of new assets in settlements;

26) ensure the implementation of measures for the construction, modernization, digitalization, automation and reconstruction of water supply and sanitation systems in settlements;

27) establish zones of sanitary protection of drinking water supply sources (places of water intake for drinking purposes) in coordination with the territorial divisions of the department of the state body in the field of sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population;

28) ensure the safety of water supply and sanitation systems of settlements in the relevant territories;

29) organize work to attract private investors for the construction and operation of technical water supply systems in settlements;

30) approve regulatory legal acts within their competence in accordance with the main goals and objectives of this Code and the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

31) perform other functions assigned to local executive bodies by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the interests of local government.

2. Local executive bodies of the regions:

1) approve the list of water supply systems, the cost of services for the supply of drinking water of which is subject to subsidization, in accordance with the criteria for inclusion of water supply systems of settlements in the list of water supply systems, the cost of services for the supply of drinking water of which is subject to subsidization;

2) develop and submit for approval to the local representative bodies of the regions the amount of payment for one cubic meter of drinking water supplied from water supply systems included in the list of water supply systems, the cost of drinking water supply services of which is subject to subsidization;

3) implement measures to subsidize the cost of services for the supply of drinking water to the population from water supply systems included in the list of water supply systems, the cost of services for the supply of drinking water of which is subject to subsidization.

The Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated April 9, 2025 № 178-VIII LRK

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