The legal status of the head of the municipality in the Russian Federation

The paper examines the legal status of the head of the municipality in the current system of municipal government of Russia and in the context of the new legislatively drafted legal models for organizing mandatory local government bodies, enshrined in Federal Law №131-FL of October 6, 2003 Federation «About the general principles of the organization of local self-government in the Russian Federation». Legal regulation of the activities of the head of the local community - the head of the municipality is covered by all levels of the regulatory framework: federal, regional and municipal. In connection with legislative provisions in local governments, a situation arises when, on the one hand, the head of a municipality can be the head of a representative body of local self-government (local duma), and, on the other hand, he can head an executive and administrative body of local self-government administration). Depending on the choice of the above options, the municipality changes the model of the legal status of the head of the municipality, the complex of his official rights and duties, functions. Thus, the relevance of the study is due to the need to analyze the legal status of the head of the municipality, acting as the head of the Duma or as the head of the administration, as well as combining both designated positions, as in the case of, for example, heads of rural settlements.