Municipal Procedural Relations and Their Types

The paper examines the content of municipal procedural relations, highlights their derivation from municipal  substantive legal relations. Substantive and procedural norms in municipal law and their distinctive objectives and  features of practice of their application constitute the basis for the separation of municipal procedural relations  from the system of municipal legal relations. Municipal procedural legal relations arise when their participants  carry out actions aimed at ensuring their powers to resolve issues of local importance. The author shows the  difference between substantive and procedural legal relations according to their object and grounds of occurrence  and distinguishes them according to such criteria as participants and their objective. Based on the first criterion, six  types of municipal procedural relations are distinguished, according to the objective criterion, four blocks of municipal  procedural relations are distinguished. Taking into account that in recent years a federal legislator has entrusted  more than one and a half thousand substantive powers to local self-government bodies, the author concludes that  it is necessary to intensify their law-making activities in order to develop and adopt municipal procedural acts.

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