LEGAL ADJUSTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN INDEPENDENT UKRAINE

In the article the author conducts research of home legislation in the field of local self-government. It turns out that our state inherited from the Soviet Union an administrative-territorial system characterized by centralization, but with the first steps of independence in Ukraine, a new system of administrative-territorial organization, which is aimed at decentralization, is beginning to form in Ukraine. The article provides an analysis of normative acts, starting in 1990, which were the first basic for the formation of a system of local self-government in Ukraine. Their deficiencies are also determined. The author of the article draws attention to the fact that before the adoption of the 1996 year Constitution of Ukraine, the functions of local executive power and functions of local self-government was not delimited. It is emphasized that only with the adoption of the Constitution of Ukraine they were divided. It was clarified that in compliance with the provisions of the Basic Law in Ukraine a number of normative acts were adopted, the European Charter of Local Self-Government was ratified, and with the beginning of the 2000 an active process of reforming the already formed system of local self-government began. The author emphasizes that since April 2014, the process of reforming local self-government and territorial organization of power in the country are actively taking place in Ukraine. In particular, it was noted that for the implementation of this reform already to form new legislation, which would allow the development of local self-government in the direction of decentralization. Also in the article the stages of formation of the legal regulation of local self-government in independent Ukraine are singled out.