Municipal by-laws

Generally binding ordinances of municipalities] Abstract This thesis deals with generally binding ordinances of municipalities. A generally binding ordinance is a legal regulation that is, in accordance with the provisions of Article 104 Paragraph 3 of the Constitution of the Czech republic, issued by the municipal council. This is significant and we can say the unique expression of the right of municipalities to self- government, which is also guaranteed by the municipalities at the constitutional level. After the first chapter in which the necessary terms for the following text are defined, follows the chapter focused on the constitutional and legal bases of issuing of generally binding ordinances. This chapter also describes the Constitutional Court's first judgement concerning with generally binding ordinances and subsequent discussion which this judgement provoked. This chapter is followed in the fifth chapter of the thesis, which focuses on the development of the case law of the Constitutional Court and describes its further development. Especially, the attention is focused on judgement Pl. ÚS 45/06 and on the change of the legal opinion of the Constitutional Court with this judgement related. The third chapter deals with selected topics related to the issuance of generally binding ordinances. In its...