| The Moscow City Duma intends to expand the list of administrative fines Deputies of the capital's parliament sensitively grasped the main political trend and decided to contribute to the widespread tightening of the screws. Yesterday, the Moscow City Duma Commission on Legislation created a working group to develop a Code of Administrative Offenses for the City of Moscow. We are not talking at all about an alternative code designed to replace the federal Code of Administrative Offenses in Moscow. Quite the contrary, the capital's deputies from United Russia called on their colleagues to provide for administrative punishment by city law even for those actions that are not yet offenses under federal law.
According to the initiator of the bill, a member of United Russia, Alexander Semennikov, the Moscow Code must provide, in particular, for punishment for begging, imposing goods and services on Muscovites, intrusive propaganda of religious teachings, as well as “for violating public order during public events.” In addition, the working group should conduct research and submit proposals to colleagues about what other misdeeds of Muscovites could be punished with administrative fines.
In addition, it is proposed to combine within the framework of the code already adopted city laws that provide for monetary fines for various offenses. According to deputy Semennikov, about forty such laws have already been adopted in Moscow. Most of them involve violations in the environmental sphere and city improvement. These are, for example, laws on environmental control, on the protection of green spaces, on specially protected natural areas, etc. Administrative liability is also provided for by city laws for violations when using public transport, for violating silence at night and violating the rules for keeping animals.
Proposing to start work on the code, deputy Semennikov explained that the development by a region of its own Code of Administrative Offenses does not contradict the Constitution, since administrative legislation is under the joint jurisdiction of the subject and the federation. Moreover, he said, the need to develop our own code is “long overdue.” The proposal to create a working group was warmly supported by the head of the United Russia faction in the Moscow City Duma, Alexander Metelsky, as well as representatives of the Moscow prosecutor's office. The heads of interested departments of the mayor's office also expressed a desire to join the working group.
Only deputy Mikhail Antontsev was skeptical about the proposal of his colleagues and party comrades. He noted that only ten laws of the city of Moscow begin with the words “on administrative responsibility,” and expressed doubt that such a small number of documents need codification. He also noted that the creation of the code provides for the transfer to it of articles on liability from the text of the relevant industry laws. And finally, Mr. Antontsev recalled that most existing city laws do not define the body that imposes and collects fines. “Perhaps, before we move on to codification, we should first understand the adopted laws and make them actually work?” - the deputy asked. Alexander GUDKOV |
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