Community Level Local and Regional Self Government

- Constitution of Croatia

Community Level Local and Regional Self Government - Constitution of the Republic of Croatia. Government and Croatian Laws.

Community Level Local and Regional Self Government

VI ORGANIZATION OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION

Citizens shall be guaranteed the right to local self-government.
The right to local self-government shall include the right to decide on needs and interests of local significance, particularly on regional development and town planning, organization of localities and housing, public utilities, child care, social welfare, culture, physical culture, sports and technical culture, and the protection and promotion of the environment.
A law shall be passed on local self-government.

Units of local self-government shall, in conformity with law, be municipalities and districts or towns. Their areas shall be determined by law after the opinion of the inhabitants of the areas concerned has been heard.
The organization and responsibilities of the bodies of local self-government units shall be regulated by their statutes in conformity with law.
Citizens may directly participate in the management of local affairs, in conformity with law and the statute of local self-government units.
Citizens shall also have the right to establish, in conformity with law, other forms of local self-government in localities and parts thereof.

Units of local self-government shall, in conformity with law and by-laws, be independent in the conduct of local affairs and shall only be subjected to the supervision of legality by competent bodies of the Republic.
In municipalities and districts or towns, local self-government bodies may be established by law. The organization and responsibilities of such bodies shall be regulated by law.
Specific affairs of state administration may be by law transferred to the responsibility of local self-government bodies. In conducting such affairs, bodies of local self-government units shall be subordinate, in conformity with law, to bodies of state administration.

Counties are units of local administration and self-government. Areas of counties shall be determined by law so as to express the historical, transport and economic factors, and to natural self-government units within the framework of the Republic.
The organization and responsibilities of County bodies shall be determined by law.
Large towns may by law be organized as counties.

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