During the meeting of the Brovary city council, summonses were handed out to all the men, after which they must appear at the military commissariat to clarify their data and undergo a medical examination.

At the same time, the mayor of Brovary, Ihor Sapozhko, was the first to receive a summons during the meeting on Tuesday, January 31.

Stanislav Polevyi, a lawyer at the Gracers law firm, explained in a comment to "RBK-Ukraine" whether subpoenas can be served on mayors, officials and civil servants.

Which of the officials can be served with summons

During martial law, all citizens of Ukraine are subject to mobilization.

But local authorities can submit armory lists for certain employees.

During mobilization, conscripted members of the Verkhovna Rada are not subject to conscription for military service for the period of their term of office, even without reservation, explains lawyer Stanislav Polevyi.

"If employees are reserved by state authorities and other bodies — local self-government or the Cabinet of Ministers for the period of mobilization and during wartime, then they are also not subject to mobilization," the specialist explains.

If the mayor of a particular city is not "booked", he can be mobilized.

"But structural subdivisions of local self-government bodies usually submit reservation lists on time. Most of them submitted reservation lists a long time ago. And it can be argued that all city mayors were booked, since a local self-government body cannot exercise its powers without a leader. And if the city mayor the head is mobilized, he goes to military service and can no longer exercise his powers," says the lawyer.

The cabinet recently approved the new mobilization and reservation procedure.

The changes mainly concern the terms of submission of documents and who approves the lists.

It also states that the management of state bodies and local self-government bodies is subject to reservation in any case.

"There is a category of civil servants who cannot be reserved and who can be mobilized. But these are not employees of managerial positions. But, for example, chief specialists. At the same time, deputies of local councils are subject to mobilization, and reservation does not apply to them," adds Stanislav Polovyi.

Article 30 of the Law of Ukraine "On the Status of Deputies of Local Councils" states that for the duration of their mandate, deputies of local councils are granted a reprieve from military conscription.

But now Ukraine does not recruit for conscript military service.

"Based on this, subpoenas can be served to deputies of local councils," concludes the lawyer. "Theoretically, subpoenas can also be served to the mayor."

We will remind, on January 31, the mayor of Brovary, Ihor Sapozhka, was served with a summons during a meeting of the executive committee of the city council.

Later, Sapozhko said that he had already visited the Military Commissariat and rechecked his credentials.

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