Handbook on local government asset management

In the period since the publication of the first edition, significant changes have occurred within the legal system - the new procedural law codification, continuous changes in local government organizational law, the further transfer of public services to state administration responsibility, the transformation of local government financing, financial law, public procurement, corporate management rules, changes in certain sectors, the transformation of legal practice, and then the state of emergency legislation due to the Covid-19 pandemic from 2020, and the state of war legislation from 2022 - which previously made it difficult to update the handbook. In view of the expanding body of knowledge, the author community has now undertaken to incorporate the accumulated significant legislative amendments, as well as the transformation of domestic and European judicial practice, into the work, and to prepare a second, enforced and partially revised edition. In addition to the complete renewal of the sections presenting asset management issues related to the use of public areas, dealing with municipal asset management issues of apartment and premises leases, and analyzing asset management issues of municipal farmland, the authors of the volume - who are practicing lawyers with public administration experience, as well as lecturers at the Department of Public Administration and Financial Law of the ELTE Law School and the University of Debrecen Law School - have strived to present the problems that arise in practice, and have also analyzed in detail the decisions of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court related to the individual issues, with particular regard to the development of a limited precedent system. The book remains a handbook, i.e. it is scientifically sound, reviewing the theoretical frameworks, the current regulations and practice, the possible and encountered problems, the typical questions, and the answers given and possible to them. The aim of the author community was to prepare this volume to assist the activities of civil servants dealing with the asset management of local governments, public employees and employees of local government institutions and business associations, as well as organizations entering into contractual relations with local governments and their legal representatives. In accordance with the above objectives, the structure of the volume basically follows the structure and regulation of local government assets. Thus, in the first, "general" part, the relevant chapters examine the horizontal rules affecting the entire local government assets, while in the second, "special" part, the asset management rules of certain, more important sectors are reviewed.