MUNICIPAL LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITIES Tsaturyan Tamara Vladimirovna, PhD at law. <...> Place of employment: Federal State Autonomous North-Caucasian Federal University. <...> Department: Theory and history of State and Law chair. <...> Place of employment: Federal State Autonomous North-Caucasian Federal University. <...> Department: Theory and history of State and Law chair. <...> Place of employment: Federal State Autonomous North-Caucasian Federal University. <...> Department: Theory and history of State and Law chair. <...> E-mail: gagieva1983@yandex.ru Annotation: According to the Constitution of Russia, one of the principles of public power is the principle of combining centralization and decentralization of power, dividing powers between levels of government, on the basis of the territorial jurisdiction of the administrative authority. <...> The municipal lawmaking is a key element in the process of decentralization of power. <...> The article describes the author`s idea of determining characteristics of municipal legal act as in the theory of legal policy in the sphere of municipal law-making and in the realization of the law-making process on the municipal level of government. <...> Согласно Конституции России одним из принципов организации публичной власти является принцип сочетания централизации и децентрализации властных полномочий, разделяющий полномочия между уровнями государственной власти, исходя из территориальной юрисдикции административного органа. <...> Муниципальное правотворчество выступает одним из ключевых элементов процесса децентрализации власти. <...>