Context: Local associations of a special kind are an amalgamation of one or more Landkreise with one or more Kreisfreie Städte to form a replacement of the aforementioned administrative entities at the district level. They are intended to implement simplification of administration at that level. Typically, a district-free city or town and its urban hinterland are grouped into such an association, or Kommunalverband besonderer Art. Such an organization requires the issuing of special laws by the governing state, since they are not covered by the normal administrative structure of the respective states.

Question: Local associations of a special kind are an amalgamation of one or more Landkreise with what?
Answer: one or more Kreisfreie Städte

Question: What do local associations replace?
Answer: administrative entities at the district level

Question: What are local associations  intended to implement?
Answer: simplification of administration

Question: What is the association a district-free city or town and its urban hinterland typically grouped into?
Answer: Kommunalverband besonderer Art

Question: What does a Kommunalverband besonderer Art require?
Answer: the issuing of special laws

Question: Who created an amalgamation at the state level?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What do district level associations replace?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Why are district level associations created?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: To who are special laws by a district issued?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What purpose is district level administration?
Answer: Unanswerable