"Ballast" on balance: how to deal with municipal property unsuitable for exercising the powers of local self-government bodies

The article examines the problems of maintaining ownerless, escheated and other unclaimed property that has come into municipal ownership, the condition of which precludes its use for exercising the powers of local governments. Judicial acts on disputes related to the said property demonstrate the uncertainty of the legislator’s position and the relevance of this problem for municipalities. To ensure uniformity of judicial practice, the author proposes to proceed from the postulate that municipal property, the constitutional purpose of which is to ensure the interests of the local community as a whole, should contain, first of all, the property necessary to solve the tasks assigned to local self-government.