Współdziałanie miast na prawach powiatu – na przykładzie Wrocławia, Wałbrzycha, Legnicy i Jeleniej Góry

Abstract

Local self-government units are empowered to enter into cooperation while performing

public tasks under legal provisions of Polish law. With reference to the

cooperation mentioned above, basic legal provisions are set out in the system

provisions which provide establishing self-government assosiations, ordinary assosiations

and agreements. However, legal options of cooperation between local

self-government units aren’t limited to the options described above. It has to be

borne in mind that Polish units of local self-government have the right to enter

into cooperation with public entities under public-private partnership. They are

also allowed to establish and join commercial law companies. A particular example 

of the local self-government unit is a city with district rights which is a commune

responsible for performing district’s public tasks under the provisions of law. In Poland

there are 66 cities with district rights according to the administrative division of

the country. Four of them are located in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, i.e. the cities of

Wrocław, Wałbrzych, Legnica and Jelenia G.ra. The aim of the article is to describe

legally permissible for districts forms of cooperation between local self-government

units and the way in which they exercise this right by taking the example of cities

with district rights from Lower Silesia Voivodeship.