On the legal and organizational issues of local self-government authorities (some comments and reflections on selected issues)

Abstract

The article deals with several issues in the field of legal and organizational issues related to local self-government authorities. Starting from the definition of the category of authorities, the author applies it to local self-government, identifying the legal basis of local self-government authorities. Then selected problems of legal and organizational solutions concerning individual authorities are presented, with an emphasis on the basic subjects of local self-government, namely the community members (residents) of communes (gmina), poviats and voivodships. The considerations focus on such issues as: the ways of exercising power by members of the community directly, the use of collegiality and one-person character in the organization of authorities, building agreements and relations between self-government bodies, and the issue of shaping legal institutions serving social participation in the sphere of public affairs. The conclusions of the deliberations address the need to modernize legal solutions in the field of local self-government authorities.