Укрупнение муниципальных образований в новейшее время
Укрупнение муниципальных образований в новейшее время
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Укрупнение муниципальных образований в новейшее время
DOI:
10.24147/2542-1514.2017.1(3).117-124
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2017
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Благов Юрий Владиславович
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作者:
Благов Юрий Владиславович
The subject. The article is devoted to the analysis of the causes, the process, the consequences of the enlargement of municipalities in the Russian Federation. The purpose of this paper is to show that with the initial increase in the number of municipalities, many of them turned out to be incapable of effectively addressing local issues and providing quality services to the population. In this regard, the reverse process began – the consolidation of municipalities. As a result, the number of municipalities, especially the rural level, has dramatically decreased. The enlargement of municipal formations went arbitrarily, without taking into account the infrastructural and historical unity of the unified urban settlements. The methodology. The author uses a dialectical method, a method of analysis and synthesis, a formal legal method, a comparative legal method. Results, scope of application. 03.04.2017 Federal Law No. 62-FZ is adopted, which provides for the transformation of municipal raions and constituent urban and rural settlements into urban districts according to a "simplified procedure", that is, with the consent of the population expressed by the representative body of the municipality. In parallel, under consideration in the legal department of the State Duma of the Russian Federation there is a bill introduced by deputy A.P. Markov, offering to introduce a new type of municipal formation – the rural district. In rural districts it is proposed to unite settlements in rural municipal areas. The implementation of this bill will lead to the mass elimination of rural settlements. Actually there are no accurate and exhaustive legislative provisions regulating the territorial boundaries of urban districts, forms of the transformation and abolition of municipalities; moreover, local political and economic elites persistently seek to preserve the single tier management system developed over the decades. As a result of these blemishes, within administrative areas of some RF constituent entities, there are urban districts that consist of the large not urbanized territories with a poorly developed transport, social, economic infrastructure and without any common development goals. The authors conclude that the bias towards municipalities' consolidation in many RF constituent entities is justified and caused by ignoring of the vertical command relations in former areas. At the same time, they point out the need to take into account the town-planning, economic and geographical, socio-demographic factors while transforming municipal areas into urban districts, otherwise, all these transformations are fictitious and turn into revising of powers by local elites. Conclusions. The municipal legal policy of consolidation of municipal entities is aimed at liquidating the settlement level of local self-government, which directly contradicts Part 1 of Art. 131 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, which establishes the implementation of local self-government by the population, first of all, at the primary, settlement level.