The need to ensure state security, as well as the life and health of citizens, increasingly forces the authorities to resort to measures that limit the legal status of the individual. New threats are emerging in various sectors of human life, and the most striking example of this is the pandemic caused by a new coronavirus infection. Some restrictions caused by the new coronavirus infection did not find support among the population, which caused dissatisfaction with the applied measures of influence. In our countr y, coronavirus restrictions were introduced not by a federal constitutional law, but by resolutions of a separate authority, which led citizens to a sense of injustice, which determines the relevance of this study. The purpose of this article is to identify problematic aspects in the existing mechanism of restrictions that are established by federal constitutional laws regulating special legal regimes. Analysis of the existing mechanism of restrictions on legal status with the introduction of special legal regimes will help to identify specific conditions for limiting the legal status of an individual, which can be applied when creating a regulatory legal act at the federal level regulating relations between the state and society in pandemics and other threats. Such conditions are highlighted by the author and are given in this article, which is the result of the study.