Public place as a legal category

The concept of “public place” relating to the place of crime and other offenses doesn't have a proper definition. The Author proposes to recognize as a public place a certain part of space, which has the exact coordinates, an exact intended function and has no restrictions regarding the presence of citizens in it. There are proposed the classification of public places of various reasons. There are showed the practical value of dividing public places into the types. There are assigned a necessity to distinguish a common place and public place, testified the ways of using the terms for constructing the rules of law in the sphere of ensuring safety, limiting certain actions and establishing responsibility for certain violation of a law.