Russian Constitution - Pt. 8

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Summary: Chapter 8, Local Self Government; Articles 130 - 133.

Chapter 8:

LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT

Article 130

1) Local self-government in the Russian Federation ensures that the population autonomously resolves questions of local importance and the ownership, utilization, and disposal of municipal property.

2) Local self-government is exercised by citizens by means of referendums, elections, and other forms of direst expression of will and through elected and other organs of local self-government.

Article 131

1) Local self-government in urban and rural settlements and other territories is exercised with due consideration for historical and other local traditions. The structure of local self-government organs is autonomously determined by the population.

2) Changes to the borders of territories where local self-government is exercised are permitted with due consideration for the opinion of the population of the relevant territories.

Article 132

1) Organs of local self-government autonomously manage municipal property, formulate, approve, and implement the local budget, levy local taxes and duties, implement the protection of public order, and also resolve other questions of local importance.

2) Individual State powers can be vested in organs of local self-government by law, with the transfer of the material and financial resources necessary to exercise them. The exercise of delegated powers is monitorable by the State.

Article 133

Local self-government in the Russian Federation is guaranteed by the right to judicial protection, compensation for additional expenditure arising as a result of decisions adopted by organs of State power, and the prohibition of the restriction of the rights of local self-government established by the Constitution of the Russian Federation and federal laws.

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Chapter Four | Chapter Five | Chapter Six |
Chapter Seven | Chapter Eight | Chapter Nine |
Section Two | Index |

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