The legal status of deputy mayor in Slovakia

The article is dedicated to relatively omitted topic in literature, and that to the legal status of deputy mayor. The application of legal norms regulating the status of deputy mayor in Slovak republic reports a lot of misstatements. The reason is the character of legal regulation. The legal regulation of institute of deputy mayor represents almost the most general legal regulation within the whole Act on municipal establishment in comparison with regulation of other institutes of municipal establishment. The emphasis is given to private law status of deputy mayor within interdisciplinary concept of topic, especially in the matter of his payment. The public law element is shown in decision activity of municipal bodies about particular aspects of legal status of deputy mayor.