ON SOME DEBATABLE ASPECTS OF THE LEGAL STATUS OF THE EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE BODIES OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT
The urgency of the conducted research is determined by the necessity of solving an important task - achieving certainty in the legal status of executive bodies of local self-government, its detailing, taking into account negative accumulated experience in functioning. This article discusses some of the discussion aspects of the legal status of the executive and administrative bodies of local self-government, including the problems of pluralism of empowerment models, terms of office, age qualifications of passive electoral rights in municipal elections, etc. The methodology of the research consists of general scientific methods of cognition (analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction), as well as such private scientific methods of cognition as formal-legal, comparative-legal, etc. Novelty consists in the formulated list of principles governing the activity of local self-government bodies. In particular, the author’s edition of the list of principles for the transfer of certain state powers to local self-government bodies is proposed, which is proposed to be fixed in the legislation on local self-government.