Open AccessTHE PROVINCIAL URBAN AFFAIRS PRESENCE AS AN ORGAN OF ADMINISTRATIVE SUPERVISION OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT IN THE 70S AND 90S OF THE XIX CENTURY
Author(s) -
Roman G. Oganesyan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
trudy instituta gosudarstva i prava rossijskoj akademii nauk
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2073-4522
DOI - 10.35427/2073-4522-2020-15-1-oganesyan
Subject(s) - statute , principle of legality , public administration , government (linguistics) , work (physics) , administration (probate law) , political science , administrative law , local government , law , engineering , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics
The article deals with the activity of the provincial presence for urban affairs — the body that establishes administrative supervision over the activities of city self-government bodies in the 70s and 90s of the XIX century. The study is based on the positions of pre-revolutionary lawyers who consider and analyze innovations in the Urban statute of 1870 and changes that occurred in 1892. First of all, it is worth noting that in post-reform Russia, the provincial presence for urban affairs was created to streamline the work on administrative control over city self-government bodies. Its organization was due to the need to oversee the correctness and legality of their rulings, as well as the desire to speed up the resolution of many cases that had previously often lain for a long time in the departments of the Governing Senate. The presence was mainly assigned to the functions of the administrative court, whose decisions were often not final. Based on archival materials of the post-reform period, the practice of administrative supervision concerning city self-government bodies is analyzed. Special attention is paid to the consideration of complaints from members of the city government on various grounds. After the city counter-reform, which resulted in the adoption of the new Urban statute, the provincial presence for city affairs was merged with the provincial presence for land affairs. This was done to simplify the work since the specifics of the activities of these bodies were almost the same. Thus, after combining the two presences into one, the new organization has the opportunity to monitor and analyze the most important issues related to the interests of the entire province. As a result, it was revealed that the activity of the provincial presence for urban affairs is also determined to an important extent by the public function.