The Citizens’ Assembly as an Institute of Municipal Law

Abstract

The article analyzes the legal nature of the institute of municipal law - the assembly of citizens. From the position of theoretical jurisprudence, the Author analyzes the features of citizens’ assembly: normativity, content, principles, subject of legal regulation, subject composition (participants and organizers of citizens’ assembly), functions. Based on the analysis of municipal legal acts, a classification of citizens’ assemblies is carried out, as well as problems of the legal regulation of citizens' assemblies

Keywords

• глава муниципального образования
• сход граждан
• местное самоуправление
• форма непосредственного осуществления населением местного самоуправления
• представительный орган муниципального образования
• институт муниципального права
• the head of the municipal formation
• the citizens’ assembly
• local self-government
• the form of direct implementation of local self-government by the population
• the representative body of the municipal entity
• the institute of municipal law