THE ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEGAL FORM OF TERRITORIAL PUBLIC SELF-GOVERNMENTS

The organizational and legal form of territorial public self-governments provided in the existing civil legislation is investigated. Considering the nature of territorial public self-government as self-organization of citizens in a residence for independent and under the responsibility implementation of their own initiatives on local value, the authors come to a conclusion that territorial public self-governments cannot be noted as public organizations,  and also as other types of non-profit organizations (for example, autonomous institution or non-profit partnerships, the Cossack societies and communities of indigenous ethnic groups of the Russian Federation). Therefore, provisions of the civil legislation, under which territorial public self-governments could be classified as public organizations, interfere with normal and effective work of these entities. According to the author’s opinion, it is necessary to make changes in art. 50 of the Russian Civil Code and exclude territorial public self-governments from among public organizations, having provided for them a separate category of organizational and legal forms of non-profit organizations.