The legal status of Prague city districts in proceedings concerning offenses under Act No. 361/2000 Coll., on road traffic and on amendments to certain acts

1 The legal status of Prague city districts in proceedings concerning offenses under Act No. 361/2000 Coll., on road traffic and on amendments to certain acts Abstract This thesis deals with the legal status of the authorities of the municipal districts of the capital city of Prague in proceedings concerning offenses under Act No. 361/2000 Coll., on road traffic, and in proceedings concerning the suspension of driving licenses following the amendment to Act No. 271/2023 Coll., effective from July 1, 2024, which fundamentally changed the substantive and local jurisdiction for hearing traffic offenses in the territory of the capital city of Prague. The theoretical part first defines the normative framework of traffic offenses and related proceedings, in particular in relation to the Road Traffic Act, the Act on Liability for Offenses, the Administrative Procedure Code, the Municipalities Act, or the Act on the Capital City of Prague and the Statute of the Capital City of Prague. At the same time, it focuses on the position of municipal authorities as administrative bodies exercising delegated powers, the division of powers between the various levels of public administration, and the procedural guarantees of participants in proceedings, emphasizing the importance of the principle of material truth and the...