Predecessors of Joint Local Government Task Performance from the Council System to 2010

Abstract

The need for municipalities to perform joint tasks in our country is supported by the lower population and smaller size of settlements. These two factors significantly contribute to the fact that, for example, settlements with less than 2,000 inhabitants are often “forced” to perform local government tasks jointly with other settlement governments. Although in the framework of this study I only examine the period of the council system and the local government system, further precedents could be found if we look even further back in time. I try to present the common task performance regulations of both the council system and the local government system until 2010 in this study, as I believe that conclusions can only be drawn with regard to the current regulations if the historical antecedents are clarified.

My study aims to show which legal institutions, during the council system and the local government period, could be the prototypes of the current joint local government offices and associations.