THE ECONOMIC NATURE AND STRUCTURE OF MUNICIPAL ECONOMY

The paper outlines the essence of communal activities as an economic activity, aimed at providing the essential services for the population to enable normal living conditions in a particular area: natural and social reproduction of individuals. The authors analyze the economic nature of utilities as a type of public goods with such fundamental characteristics as special monopoly, based on the inability of the population to refuse these services, a high social importance, local production and consumption of services. A network of communal services in a territory is understood as a pool of service providers, regardless of the form of ownership and the legal form of the organizations serving the population of a local territorial entity. Dimensions and characteristics of a municipal complex are defined by a set of various factors: geographical, demographic, economic, social, industrial and environmental