Law order on the contract

Local laws on administrative responsibility for violation of public order do not work in most regions, since the Ministry of Internal Affairs can not bring perpetrators to justice without concluding an appropriate contract with local authorities. The police have the right to draw up a protocol on the offense only if an agreement has been signed between the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the entity. The Legislative Assembly of the Rostov region decided to check this rule
for compliance with the Basic Law - in April the relevant court accepted the relevant complaint.

Experts point out that the list of regional administrative offenses differs from subject to subject, so it is possible to solve the problem only through interaction between federal and regional authorities.

If the region has the right to "criminalize" something, then it is he who must financially ensure the implementation of a possible punishment, Igor Pastukhov, the lawyer of the YUST Law Firm, explained to the "Izvestia" newspaper. The issue of such financing is not a matter of constitutional equality, he believes. "In addition, the model agreement is not a dogma, it is a matter of negotiations between regional and federal authorities", - the expert said.

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