Grounds for the Gratuitous Provision of Land Plots in Public Ownership: Theoretical Aspects

The purpose of the study is to identify the main theoretical approaches to the concept of the institution of gratuitous provision of land plots that are objects of state and municipal property. In the article, the author analyzes the grounds for the transfer of land plots from public ownership to private ownership. The author conducts a comparative study of the grounds for the provision of land for free use. The article projected the formal-logical method on civil and land-legal provisions that mediate the free provision of land plots to citizens and companies. Results. The author notes the dissonance of the grounds for the gratuitous provision of land plots. Therefore, he proposes to divide the norms according to the sectoral principle. When embodying economic interests in the registration of land on a gratuitous basis, the civil law procedure should be applied. It is based only on contractual regulation. Subject to the social conditions for the transfer of state and municipal land plots to individuals, the administrative and legal procedure is applied. Thus, the competition between land-legal norms and the norms of administrative legislation manifests itself only at the regional level.

provision of land plots, privatization, free use, land law, civil law