Правовой статус специализированных муниципалитетов в Российской Федерации: общее и особенное

Vyacheslav  Evdokimov; Pavel  Petryaev

Authors

Vyacheslav Evdokimov Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation
Pavel Petryaev Military Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Strategic Missile Forces

Keywords:

legal status, local government, specialized municipality, closed administrativeterritorial entity

Abstract

The paper examines some aspects of constitutional (state), administrative and municipal law related to the specific legal status of local authorities of a closed administrative-territorial entity (CATE). The authors have introduced the working category of specialized municipality, which means municipal authorities of a closed-type settlement, and have also formulated a scientific (legal) definition of the legal status of the specified municipality. This legal status is considered as the legal basis for the activities of the specialized municipalities.

The authors substantiate the thesis that the main feature of this legal status is its conditionality by the goals and objectives of the strategic city-forming objects of CATEs. This feature is expressed in the fact that, in addition to resolving issues of local importance, specialized municipalities carry out activities related to ensuring conditions for the functioning of these city-forming objects. In addition, the authors state, that the specified legal status is of a mixed nature, it consists of two components – a general municipal one, and a specialized one. Their balance is ensured by the system of internal and external relationships of legal status based on legal norms of various branches of law, as well as the principles of state and municipal construction in the field of closed administrative territories.