The functions of local governments are divided into categories in accordance with the tasks that are solved in the framework of municipal activities, powers, and also taking into account the role of this industry in the organization and implementation of democracy as a whole. Among the main tasks of the municipal government should be noted:
1. Ensuring citizen participation in solving municipal issues. As part of this function of local self-government, the Russian Federation establishes legal guarantees for the participation of citizens in the implementation of relevant activities, both directly and through elections. Based on the adopted and current legislation, the population is vested with the right to participate in gatherings, referenda, elections, and other forms of expression of will. Citizens are vested with the right to elect, to be elected to territorial authorities. Within the framework of this function of local self-government, citizens are provided with the opportunity to contact the municipal representative offices, to officials on issues related to local life, to receive objective and complete information about the activities of these representative offices. And also get acquainted with materials, documents that directly affect the freedoms and rights of citizens. The law guarantees the protection of the rights and freedoms of the population.
2. The functions of local self-government include the management of municipal property , as well as financial resources. According to the law, municipalities have their own budget and their own property. With regard to property and finance, rights are exercised by the territorial governing bodies and (in cases provided for by law) directly by the population. Legally, municipal representative offices can transfer various objects that are classified as municipal property for temporary use by the population or legal entities, alienate in accordance with the established procedure, rent out, and make other transactions. Within the managerial function of local self-government, the conditions for the use of objects are established by agreements and contracts. The implementation of these and other powers should be in the interests of the territorial entity, to serve the satisfaction of its needs. This is mainly ensured by the activities of municipal bodies selected by the population.
3. The functions of local government provide for the development of the territory of the entire municipal formation as a whole. The jurisdiction of the municipal regulation of the law includes issues related to integrated development, which, in turn, is designed to provide increased efficiency of economic activity, the solution of social, cultural, environmental problems. Local government also deals with the rational use of natural, labor and other resources of the territory, the formation of optimal conditions for recreation and life of citizens in general.
4. Among the functions of the municipal government, it is necessary to note the provision of satisfaction of the existing needs of the population in services of communal, social, cultural and other nature. These tasks are carried out through the formation, maintenance and development of relevant municipal enterprises, organizations, services, institutions.
5. The functions of local self-government include ensuring the protection of order, as well as protecting the rights and interests of the municipal authorities themselves. The protection of order is carried out through the formation of appropriate bodies endowed with special powers. Protection of interests and rights is carried out through unions and associations of municipalities.