Relevance of the research is caused by requirement of modern local government for creation of the stable legal base answering to the nature of the local government based on openness and publicity of local activity. The research objective consists in the analysis and assessment of the operating constitutional and legal regulation of institute of local government, identification of problems in this part and offers of their elimination. The leading approach of researching this problem is legalistic one. Its use allows to consider a research subject in a complex, to formulate determination of necessary definitions, to specify the revealed legal gaps. The results of the research are the substantiated conclusions about the current state of legal framework for local government; proposals about the perspective of its further improvement. The practical importance of conducted research is the possibility of taking into account the results obtained in the legislative process at the federal, regional and municipal levels, as well as in the enforcement of municipal formations.

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