Selected Legal Issues of a Commune Statute Being a Local Legal Act of a Constituting Character

Abstract

The article discusses the issue of regulations contained in a commune Statute. The Act on Commune Self-government includes certain requirements concerning the Statute. The Commune Statute, apart from the Constitution and the Act on Commune Self-government, is the most important legal act regulating organization of a commune. According to the constitutional principle of the hierarchy of legal acts, the Statute is placed among local legal acts, for it is in force only in the area of a given commune. The regulations of the aforementioned universally binding legislation determine the scope of statute regulations.