Abstract
The aim of this paper was to reveal the specifics of administrative legislation of Kazakhstan and other Commonwealth of Independent States countries. The authors employed various methods of scientific research, namely analysis, synthesis, comparison, deduction, abstraction, and the formal- legal method, and defined the dominant role of fully functioning administrative liability in the country’s legal environment. In addition, they investigated administrative sanctions as one of the legal norms applied to a person who is driving while intoxicated. Distinctive features of the legal acts of the above countries were singled out, and the corpus delicti of this administrative offence, possible sanctions, and qualifying characteristics examined. This helped to identify the main approaches among CIS lawmakers to the rules of administrative law. The authors also noted the advantages of Kazakhstan’s code of administrative offences, in particular a large number of qualifying characteristics.