Municipal by-laws to secure local public order

1 Generally binding regulations of municipalities for securing local issues of public order Abstract This master thesis deals with generally binding regulations of municipalities for securing local issues of public order in pursuance of finding out to what extend and quality the municipalities do use the authorisation for lawmaking in independent competence while regulating the activities that disrupt public order; and also in pursuance of finding out how the individual municipal councils base their decisions on the knowledge of the local environment. In the introductory part the essential terms for better understanding of the area are defined. There are terms as municipality, public order, public place and generally binding regulations, while the understanding of the imprecise legal concept of public order is compared to the interpretation in neighbouring countries. Furthermore, the history of municipal self-government from the year 1848 up to the present day is summarized while presenting its importance and focusing on municipal lawmaking in independent competence. Considering that the approach of the Constitutional Court to the enabling provision of Article 104, paragraph 3 of the Constitution of the Czech Republic has developed, this thesis also analyses this genesis that is nowadays important for the..