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Description of the
In principle, everyone is authorised to use public roads and their components within the scope of their dedication to traffic (public use). Public use primarily includes traffic in the narrower sense, i.e. in the sense of locomotion, movement and transport. Any use beyond public use constitutes special use.
Authorisation is required for the use of traffic routes by telecommunications lines in accordance with the Telecommunications Act (TKG).
Prerequisites
You are a telecommunications company with a usage authorisation as defined in Section 125 TKG and would like to use a public road for the laying or modification of lines.
Deadlines
Approval must be granted prior to the construction work, so an application must be submitted in good time.Forms
Costs
Fees and expenses are charged by the road construction authority for the granting of consent.Legal basis
Procedure
The application for approval of the relocation must be submitted to the responsible road construction authority. The districts or independent cities are responsible for district roads, the municipalities for municipal roads and the state building authorities for federal and state roads outside of local thoroughfares. Framework approval is possible for an expansion project in an urban or municipal area. Working aids can be found in the Forms section.
Within local thoroughfares, the responsibilities for the approval of federal, state and district roads are regulated as follows:
- Federal motorways: Municipalities with more than 80,000 inhabitants are responsible for local thoroughfares. In the other municipalities, the municipalities are responsible for pavements and car parks, while the state building authorities are responsible for road carriageways.
- State and district roads: Municipalities with more than 25,000 inhabitants are responsible for state and district roads. The municipalities are responsible for pavements and car parks on through roads in other municipalities, the state building authorities are responsible for the carriageways of state roads and the districts are responsible for the carriageways of district roads. In the case of cycle paths in local thoroughfares, it depends on whether they exist or are planned on the adjoining open stretches. If this is the case, the state building authorities are responsible for cycle paths on state roads and the administrative districts are responsible for cycle paths on district roads. Otherwise, the municipalities are responsible for the cycle paths.