Law. Human. Environment

Summary. The article analyzes the transfer of state-owned land plots to territorial communities as the basis for municipal property land right within the local self-government reform processes in Ukraine. The study results reveal that territorial communities have the real ability to directly dispose of municipal property land plots, to carry out administrative powers related to all lands within settlements as well as to influence determining the legal regime of using land outside the settlement. It is established that a special legal act is necessary to adopt in order to realize the right of municipal land ownership outside the settlements which entitles the representative bodies of the united territorial communities to exercise their rights of agricultural land ownership both within and outside the settement, as well as to have tools to manage the municipal property land of the united territorial community.

territorial communities, local self-government reform, municipal land ownership, state-owned lands, agricultural lands