Tajikistan E-Scooter Laws: Dushanbe's Ban to 2030

This article is general information about e-scooter law in Tajikistan and is not legal advice. Rules can differ significantly between Dushanbe and the rest of the country; for a specific situation consult a Tajik lawyer or the relevant city or national authority directly. Information last verified on 23 July 2026.

Are e-scooters legal in Tajikistan?

There is no confirmed national e-scooter law either permitting or banning the devices in general terms. What is confirmed is a specific, sweeping local rule: Dushanbe, Tajikistan's capital and by far its largest city, banned e-scooters and e-kickbikes outright for five years, through 2030.

Asia-Plus reported: "The city of Dushanbe has introduced a five-year ban on the use of electric kickbikes, e-scooters, and other individual vehicles (unless officially registered). The restriction will remain in effect until 2030... the ban applies across all districts of Dushanbe, with exceptions made only for specially designated areas." Avesta.tj's separate report on the same resolution adds that it was adopted by the city's Assembly of People's Deputies, with the Ministry of Internal Affairs handling enforcement, and that officials said the restriction will last "until necessary infrastructure for safe operation of such devices is created," a condition that could in principle move the end date earlier or later than the stated 2030 target.

Whether e-scooters are separately banned, tolerated, or unregulated outside Dushanbe was not confirmed in the sources read for this article. Absence of a rule for the rest of the country is not the same as permission; it simply means this article cannot state a specific national answer either way.

What counts as an e-scooter here

The Dushanbe ban's own wording, as reported, is broad: it covers "electric kickbikes, e-scooters, and other individual vehicles," without stating a device-spec threshold of its own. The one carve-out is for vehicles that are "officially registered." Separately, a national vehicle-registration procedure sets a 40 km/h and 50cc threshold: electric scooters above that speed or engine size must be registered as motor vehicles. A scooter below that threshold has no registration path under that national rule at all, so in Dushanbe it falls straight into the outright ban with no route to the "officially registered" exception.

Where you can ride (Dushanbe)

Movement is prohibited on Dushanbe's roads and pedestrian zones citywide, in every district, with the only carve-out being specially designated areas set aside for these devices. No source read for this article identified where those designated areas are, or whether any currently exist.

Rider rules and registration

Outside the Dushanbe ban itself, the only rider-facing rule confirmed for this article is the national registration requirement for scooters over 40 km/h or with an engine over 50cc, which functions more like a light-moped rule than an ordinary consumer e-scooter rule. A rider who skips that registration risks a fine under Article 310 of Tajikistan's Code of Administrative Offenses, reported as ranging from 1 to 2 calculation indices.

Penalties

For the Dushanbe ban itself, no specific fine or penalty figure was stated in either source read for this article. The Ministry of Internal Affairs' public messaging around the ban leaned on appeals to parents and citizens rather than a stated fine schedule, which is a real gap in this article's information, not evidence that no penalty exists.

Enforcement in practice

Tajikistan's Ministry of Internal Affairs publicly urged parents and citizens to refrain from using banned devices and to avoid leaving minors unsupervised, according to Avesta.tj's coverage of the ban, a softer, appeal-based framing than a strict fine-and-seizure enforcement message.

The safety concern behind the ban is not abstract. In a separate, earlier case reported by Avesta.tj, a ten-year-old boy in Dehkanabad village, Gissar (a city near, but distinct from, Dushanbe), died in March 2024 after being struck by a vehicle while riding an electric scooter. That case predates and falls outside the Dushanbe city ban, but it illustrates the regional road-safety backdrop the ban responds to. Enforcement patterns and safety statistics do not change what the underlying rule requires, and a documented accident does not by itself establish the legal status of e-scooters outside Dushanbe.

Legal history and what may change

The Dushanbe ban was reported in October 2025 as a "new resolution," with its precise effective date not separately confirmed beyond the publication date of the news coverage. Whether it becomes a template for a national rule, or whether the infrastructure condition officials cited leads to an earlier lift in Dushanbe itself, was not addressed in the sources read for this article.

For how a similar registration-threshold approach plays out in the wider region, see the world e-scooter law guide.