MOSCOW, January 27. The state Duma adopted on Tuesday a law that allows you to send in resignation of heads of municipalities for improper use of budget resources.
The draft amendments to the law “On General principles of organization of local self-government in the Russian Federation” provides that the authority to send the head of the municipality appears at the head region in the case that metalowego of budget spending will be set by the court, and the head of the municipality did not do all that depends on him to enforce the judgment.
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“The bill proposes to confer the highest official of the RF subject … the right to issue the legal act on removal from office of the head of the municipal formation or the head of local administration in case of committing the specified official of local government actions, including publishing them for legal acts, non-normative, entailing diversion of inter-budgetary transfers having target purpose, budget loans … if determined appropriate by the court and specified official has not accepted within its authority measures for the enforcement of court decisions”, – the document says.
The order of dismissal of the head of the municipality is regulated by article 74.1 of the law “On General principles of local self-government”. In accordance with him to make this decision can the local Duma, the initiative can come from at least 1/3 of deputies or the head of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation.
The grounds for the deprivation of office of the chief of municipal formation are: non-performance within three months or more duties under the decision of questions of local value, inadequate assessment of the head of municipal formation local Council, violations of anti-corruption legislation, identification of facts of discrimination against citizens based on race, nationality, language, attitude to religion and other circumstances, as well as other grounds.
