The decentralized administrative regime presupposes the existence of territorial autonomous communites which designates the public authorities responsible for the administration of local affairs. The functionality of the local public administration system is determined by the adequate allocation of competences under the conditions of the financial and material resources necessary for their accomplishment. The analysis of the general situation in the Republic of Moldova reveals a major discrepancy in this sense. For the functional development of the local public administration authorities it is necessary to reconceptualise the local autonomy regime to adequate transpose it in the Constitution and in the national legislation, but also the correct implementation of.