Legal Regulation of Municipal Property Management

Managing municipal property is considered economic basis for communal self- government. The right to own and manage property poses one of the most important authorities given to self-governing units. Managing municipal property is regulated in a specific way. The basis of this regulation is an obligation to keep special duties. They rest - firstly - in the requirement of evaluating property dispositions from the point of view of their positive impact on municipality, and - secondly - in keeping specific procedures which must precede the valid legal dispositions. The aim of this rigorous thesis on "Legal regulation of municipal property management" was to focus in detail on the key aspects of dealing with municipal property and point out the problems in current legislation. The thesis is divided into five basic parts. The first part focuses on constitutional and legal limitation of self-governing units viewed as the legal owners. The second part is devoted to specific duties which self-governing units have to keep when managing property, such as managing property in purposeful and economical way, or duty to explain why the price paid differs from the usual price at a paid transfer. The final section of the second part takes into account the supervision of keeping these duties. The following third...