Problems of Regulatory Classification of Legal Acts of Representative Bodies of Municipalities

The legal acts of representative authorities local self-government bodies regulate the most important issues — charter approval of municipality, disposal of municipal property and finance, establishment of taxes and many others. The purpose of this article is to find out what types of legal acts are adopted by the representative bodies of municipalities and how this is taken into account in the classification established by law: which general features of legal acts are taken into account when classifying them into one group, comparability and consistency of approaches used in the classification. Our analysis showed that the legislative classification doesn’t take into account the requirements of consistency, uniformity, comparability of the classification of legal acts to a certain group of classification. In this connection, there is a need to continue the study of the classification of legal acts of the representative body. The task of classifying legal acts is topical given the wide regulation of issues of local significance by acts of the representative body. The significance of the issue is determined by the fact that the representative body provides the closest link between the inhabitants of a municipality and the system of government. It represents the interests of the entire population of a municipality by virtue of it’s election (formation) and collegiality of work.