Law on non-commercial organizations

The law on non-commercial organizations adopted in the RF defines the status and order of functioning of non-commercial organizations and the use of their property, the basis for management, methods and methods of supporting their activities by the state. It applies to all such organizations throughout the territory of the Russian Federation. This law does not apply to consumer cooperatives, the functioning of which is determined by the norms of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. Certain articles of this law do not apply to religious organizations.

The law in question is adopted in addition to the content of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, which sets out only the notion of a non-profit organization, as well as describes some forms of these organizations as legal entities.

The subject of regulation of the law are relations that determine the activity of any legal entity from the moment of its creation to liquidation. Particular attention in the articles of the law is given to the forms of support for non-profit organizations by state bodies.

Due to the fact that the law is extended to the entire territory of the Russian Federation, there can not be any changes or exceptions to its norms within the framework of the lawmaking of the subjects . The current law on non-profit organizations establishes that such is understood to be one that does not set profit and its distribution among participants as the main goal of its creation and activity. They are usually formed for the implementation of social goals, and the main areas of their work are charity, cultural and educational work and services, health care, sports development and others. The main feature for all these species is their non-commercial nature. In this sense, the law in question is also a law on autonomous non-commercial organizations, which is defined as having no fixed and official membership an organization created on the basis of voluntary contributions and declaring the areas of its activities the directions indicated above.

As the law on non-commercial organizations provides, they are formed in the form of public associations, partnerships, associations and unions, institutions, funds, as well as other forms. Their common goal is to achieve social benefits.

This legal act establishes and regulates the legal status of non-profit associations. So, they are considered to be created as a legal entity from the date of registration. It is envisaged that a non-profit association may own separate property, be subject to litigation, may acquire property and non-property rights. At the same time, it must have a separate balance.

In practical activity, it is necessary to distinguish the subject of regulation of the law in question, from the subject matter that the federal law on public organizations assumes . This law provides for the principles and procedures for the regulation of wide-ranging relations that are related to the rights to create public associations.

A non-profit organization, as provided by the law on non-profit organizations, is created for an unlimited period, unless such period is provided by the organization itself in its statutory documents. In addition, the law gives the right to open representative offices in the Russian Federation, while a branch can be considered only a separate subdivision that is territorially located outside the location of the head organization.

The organization of the activities of non-profit institutions implies a guarantee of participation in civil circulation. This turnover, according to the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, is held, as a rule, in the form of the activities of a legal entity.