Issues of sub-national referendums regulated at the national level

Law of Ukraine onall-Ukrainian and Local Referendums

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ARTICLE 6. Questions Submitted to Local Referenda.

Questions attributed by legislation of Ukraine tolocal self-government jurisdiction of appropriate administrative andterritorial unites, as well as questions on pre-term termination of appropriateCouncil of Peoples' deputies and its Chairperson's authorities may be submittedto local referendum.

The following questions within appropriateadministrative and territorial units may be resolved exclusively by localReferenda: name and renameing of village Councils, settlement towns, rayons andregions (oblasts); merging in a simple unit of administrative and territorialunits of the same, which have a common administrative center; alteration oflocal self-government's base level in rural districts (rayons), the questionsof the reorganisation or liquidation of community-owned pre-school educationalestablishments, as well as pre-school educational establishments set up by theformer agricultural collective and state-owned farms. (The Paragraph changedand amended according to Law of Ukraine #2628-III of July 11, 2001)

Questions on disaffirmation of higher state andself-government bodies' legal resolutions; questions attributed to thejurisdiction of a Court or Prosecutor's office; questions related to election,appointment, and exception of officials under the jurisdiction of anappropriate local Council of peoples' deputies, and their executive, as well asadministrative bodies may not be submitted to local referendum.