CHAPTER I. TASKS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNITS: Jerzy Korczak - The phenomenon of recentralization of public administration in Poland ; Iwona Niżnik-Dobosz - Principles of the implementation of public duties by the units of territorial self-government ; Krystian Ziemski - Delegation of tasks and competence by local government unit authorities ; Mehmet Alpertunga Avci - The transition from Local Governing to Local Governance ; Jozef Tekeli - Conflicts of municipal self-government and school self-government in the appointment of the school director ; Szymon Dubis - Satisfying the housing needs of the local community as the municipality’s own task ; Artur Mazurkiewicz - Unduly collected family benefits - findings and refund ; Rafał Budzisz - New tasks of territorial self-government in the sphere of healthcare ; Lidia Zacharko - Protection of the rights of persons with disabilities in the context of the phenomenon of privatization of public tasks of local self-government units ; Elżbieta Ura - Tasks of the municipality concerning municipal cemeteries ; Piotr Dobosz - Ultima ratio of the changes in the model of implementing public tasks in the area of the protection of historic monuments ; Robert Suwaj - Infrastructure Charge - expectations and concerns ; Maria Karcz-Kaczmarek - Self-government (local) cultural institutions - contemporary challenges and recommendations ; Agnieszka Korzeniowska-Polak - Performance of district’s duties as regards removal of abandoned vehicles - selected issues ; Ewa Szewczyk - Selected aspects of the collaboration mode of public administration authorities ; Justyna Przedańska - Collaboration of territorial self-government units with private entities using the example of public-private partnership ; Justyna Kuśnierz - The tasks of the voivodeship self-government and public utility ; Roman Stec, Marcin Roliński, Łukasz Ciołek - Regional self-government in Poland. Chosen aspects of its system and activity in the ligt of the European Charter of Regional Self-Government ; Aneta Kowalczyk - Collective labor law of local government employees. CHAPTER II. DECISION-MAKING PROCESS IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Piotr Szreniawski - The importance of personal network in local government ; Ewa Bonusiak - Form of carrying out public consultation on changing commune boundaries - case study ; Kamil Sikora - Legal nature and possibility of withdrawing the request for the dismissal of the poviat governor (voivodeship marshal) for another reason than not granting discharge ; Barbara Jaworska-Dębska - The character of the decision concerning the permission for the retail sale of alcoholic beverages ; Paulina Ura, Ewa Kubas - Specifity of the procedure in the case of lodging a complaint against the cassatory decision of the second instance authority ; Magdalena Sitek - The individual’s right to dispose of land in the ligt of European and Polish soil protection strategy ; Radomir Jakab - Remedies against decisions of municipalities in the Slovak Republic. CHAPTER III. SHAPING OF THE LOCAL SECURITY: Michał Kasiński - Police function of local self-government (selected problems) ; Stanisław Pieprzny - Entities shaping local security in the municipality ; Marta Pomykała, Małgorzata Polinceusz - Entities responsible for shaping local safety in the district area ; Konrad Kędzierski - Deconcentration and decentralization as a degree of subordination and dependence of the Police in relation to local government units ; Bogdan Jaworski - The role of municipal guard in shaping local security in Rzeszów ; Jarosław Dobkowski - The social role of water areas in Poland ; Marian A. Liwo - Local government’s influence on the threats to public security, citizens’ safety and the environment caused by the activity of industrial plants and services ; Marcin Janik - Fighting againsta alternative remedies and new psychoactive substances from the perspective of the state sanitary inspection - theory, practice, judicature. CHAPTER IV. PUBLIC TRIBUTES - COLLECTION AND EXPENDITURE: Elżbieta Feret - The accumulation and allocating public means in the commune based on the method of budgeting gross ; Paweł Majka - Budget specifity as part of a system ensuring effective implementation of tasks by local government units ; Jarosław Czerw - Supplementary establishing the budget as an extraordinary procedure for establishing the budget of a self-government unit ; Marta Sagan - Legal basis for granting general subvention and grant-it-aid from the state budget for financing tasks of local government units ; Beata Sagan, Marta Sagan - Advertising fee as a source of own income for the commune ; A. Szymczak, M. Budziarek - Financing the tasks of local government units in the light of the principle of adequacy against the background of the case law of the Constitutional Court selected issues ; Marek Zdebel - Self-government communes control of taxation ; Mária Bujňáková - Local taxes and their influence on the budgetary issues of municipalities in Slovakia ; Dominika Łukawska-Białogłowska - The provision of funds for paying the supplementary allowance for teachers in the context of the accumulation of income by Local Government Units ; Joanna Łubina - The financial position of Metropolitan Associations in the Act of 9th March 2017 on the Metropolitan Association in the Silesian Voivodeship.