ZLOUPOTREBA SLUŽBENOG POLOŽAJA I OVLAŠĆENJA U PRAVU REPUBLIKE SRPSKE
MISUSE OF OFFICIAL POSITION AND AUTHORITY IN THE LAW OF REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

Summary/Abstract: Legal, quality, efficient and appropriate conduct of official and responsible persons instate agencies and legal entities in performing public authorizations and official duties entrusted to them is a basis and guarantee for public services and state entities functioning in general. Throughout the history and all the way till present time there have been individuals as well as groups that have, instead of working in the interest and for the state organs and public services in whose name they were supposed to act, broken the rules of service and in that way committed all sorts of misuses of position. Misuse of official position or authority is a basic criminal act against official duty regulated by law with gruel punishment by imprisonment. The act includes abuse of official position or authority, overstepping boundaries of official authority or failure to act on official duty. Depending on a perpetrator’s intention and type of consequence caused, this criminal act manifested in a basic and four severe forms. This paper speaks exactly about that, term, elements, characteristics and manifestation forms of misuse of official position and authorities as a basic official criminal act in legal system of Republika Srpska.

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