PRINCIPLES OF MUNICIPAL SERVICE: APPROACHES TO CLASSIFICATION
The article is devoted to the analysis of types of municipal service and their classification. Based on the analysis of the legislation and legal doctrine, the author concludes that the list of principles of municipal service, enshrined in the legislation, is not exhaustive. It is proposed to allocate general legal, sectoral and institutional principles of municipal service that differ in the scope of action. He suggested that the general legal principles should include: the principles of priority of human and civil rights and freedoms; legality; equality; sectoral principles should include: the principles of unity of basic requirements to municipal service taking into account historical and other local traditions during municipal service; independence of local self-government bodies when regulating municipal service; differentiation of legal regulation depending on the type of municipality; combination of private and public principles in the regulation of municipal service; stability; openness; institutional (special) principles should include: professionalism and competences, nonpartisanism, liability of municipal employees for failure or improper performance of their official duties, interrelationships between municipal service and public civil service.