The implementation of optional powers of local self-government bodies in cities

Abstract

The article characterizes the problems of implementation in cities of the right of local governments to address issues that are not related to issues of local importance. The topic is insufficiently studied and not well understood. The work attempts to determine the place and right of local governing bodies to address issues not related to local matters, within the competence of local governments, and the author explores the history of the legislative consolidation of the rights of local governments to resolve such issues. Accordingly, on the basis of the Federal Law of October 6, 2003 No. 131 “On the General Principles of Organizing Local Self-Government in the Russian Federation”, as well as analyzing the work of a number of scholars, the author classifies the powers exercised by the bodies and officials of local self-government depending on the areas within which these powers are exercised. In addition, the article provides a list of features that are characteristic of the right of local governments of cities to resolve issues. The conclusions reached by the author are correlated with the purpose of his research — to understand the legislative consolidation of the concept of “the rights of local governments of cities to solve issues not related to issues of local importance”. A deep theoretical study of this concept and the mechanism of its implementation is required, followed by a change in the above Federal Law.

Keywords:

local self-government bodies, local self-government rights, optional powers, issues of local significance, powers, competence, local self-government