Municipal law and COVID-19

Abstract

COVID-19 has given rise to many different municipal responses, both executing the decisions previously adopted by the State and the Autonomous Communities and undertaking complementary and additional activities. The municipal activities have been diverse, in three differentiable stages: pre-alarm; state of alarm; and deescalation process. From a strictly legal perspective, the municipalities have acted under two legal orders: the ordinary municipal law, applied at the pre-alarm phase and to be applicable again at the end of the deescalation process; and the alarm law.