The procedure for the remunicipalization of public services. On articles 85 and 86 of the Spanish Law on Local Government

Abstract

The present work analyses, from a procedural perspective, the phenomenon of (re)municipalization understood as the recovery of the direct management of local public services which were managed by a local entity and, afterwards, through private management. For this purpose, it is first analysed the need of following the procedure established in the articles 86 of the Spanish Law on Local Government, which deals with the exercise of economic activities; and, secondly, the influence of the Spanish Law on local financial sustainability on article 85 of the aforementioned Law on Local Government, where the different management methods to provide local public services by local entities are established.