President Volodymyr Zelenskyi signed Law No. 12177-1, which gives utility companies the right to use public transport received as humanitarian aid for passenger transportation. About this informs press service of the Verkhovna Rada.
According to the provisions of the document, during the period of martial law and within 12 months after its termination or cancellation, communal motor vehicle enterprises and city electric transport operators will be able to accept buses, electric buses, trams, trolleybuses and subway cars as humanitarian aid and use them for the transportation of passengers and luggage.
The law establishes that such activity is not considered commercial, and therefore does not involve criminal or administrative liability. The document also regulates the possibility of transferring this transport to other communities or enterprises.
In addition, there are technical requirements: the buses to be transferred must meet the environmental standard no lower than Euro-3. According to the information provided by the Deputy Prime Minister for Reconstruction and the Minister of Community and Territorial Development, Oleksiy Kuleba, since the beginning of the full-scale war, almost 90 communities have received more than 800 buses, as well as dozens of trams and trolleybuses — a total of more than 1,000 units of transport.
