The subject of the study is legal norms of the federal, regional and municipal legislation governing the road transportation of passengers. The purpose is to analyze and generalize the practice of transportation contracts concluded in Irkutsk region, the carrier status, the practice of resolving disputes on requirements for including information on the applicant in the register of municipal routes for regular transportation of passengers and baggage by road and city ground electric types of transport.The methodological basis is the method of studying reality in its connection and interaction with substantive and arbitration procedural laws. Along with general scientific methods, private scientific methods are used: descriptive, technical and legal analysis, comparative legal analysis. New knowledge about the nature of a transport contract (the agreement for transporting passengers by road, the procedure for concluding an agreement and issuing documents for the permit route) was obtained.