Municipal regulation of initiative projects in the Siberian Federal District: first experience and prospects
The article is devoted to the study of issues of municipal legal regulation of participation nancing. The concepts of “participatory nancing”, “initiative budgeting”, “ nancing of initiative projects” are considered as identical. The main innovations in federal legislation on nancing initiative projects are being investigated. The authors present the results of the analysis of the rule-making competence of sub-federal public legal entities in the eld of regulating the practices of participatory nancing and conclude that the main scope of such powers is justi ed for municipalities. To study the rst experience of municipal legal regulation of participatory nancing practices, municipal regulatory legal acts of the Siberian Federal District are analyzed. The analysis made it possible to identify two models of municipal legal regulation. The rst is the adoption of a comprehensive act or several acts regulating certain issues of nancing initiative projects. When choosing the second model, the municipalities di er in the number of such special acts and the subjects of their legal regulation. At the same time, it is noted that municipal legal acts regulate all the main issues necessary for the implementation of initiative projects, regardless of the chosen model of legal regulation. The disadvantage in this case is only excessive duplication of federal legislation. Along with the indicated models, legal acts are separately adopted in case of possible nancing of initiative projects through inter-budgetary transfers from the budget of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation. The conclusion of the article contains conclusions about the need for further work on the development of legal regulation of participation nancing practices, including in terms of regulating the principle of citizens› participation in the budget process in the budget legislation of the Russian Federation