Decentralization of power in Ukraine that was launched in early 2015 has extended the powers of local governments in the communal property management. Communal property management is a multi-faceted process of a public-law nature aimed at meeting the needs of the residents of the community, and may therefore be a prerequisite for the public-law dispute considered in the administrative court. Thus, there is a need to explore this category through the prism of its public law (administrative law) character. In view of this, the goal of this article is to characterize communal property management as an administrative law category. To achieve the goal, several methods have been applied: analysis and synthesis (for definition of concepts and their characteristics investigated in this article), comparison (for comparing different views of researcherson certain legal phenomena), dialectical method (for research of management of communal property as a legal phenomenon formed by various factors). The article defines the concept of communal property management as a prerequisite for the public-legal disputes as well as its features and forms, provides their classification, and specifies the difference between public legal and private legal aspects of the phenomenon under research. The paper proves that the communal property management is an administrative-legal category which has a private-legal aspect that can be distinguished by applying both doctrinal approaches and normative regulation.
Functions of administrative law: historical and legal aspect
