Structure of the capital city of Warsaw
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STRUCTURE OF THE CAPITAL CITY OF WARSAW – a statutory regulation of special character defining the structure of local government in Warsaw. Due to the size of this unit of local government and its capital functions (including as the seat of the most important state offices), the matters of the structure of the local government of the c.c. of Warsaw was defined in a special way by adopting a separate law. In the Second Polish Republic a separate law for Warsaw was adopted once, in 1938, and after 1989 four times: in 1990, 1994, 1998 and in 2002. The office of the c.c. of Warsaw results from the combination of municipal and county tasks (it is a city with county rights and the urban municipality, the largest in Poland). The city was divided into 18 auxiliary units – districts. The decision-making and control body is the city council of the c.c. of Warsaw, and a monocratic executive body – the president of the c.c. of Warsaw. Local-government tasks are divided into city-wide and local (left at the disposal of districts). The division of tasks and competences results from the statutory regulations, local acts – the statute of the c.c. of Warsaw, and the statutes of individual districts and resolutions of competences (dividing the tasks between the capital city’s local government and districts’ governments). Districts have no legal personality, it is vested in the city as a whole. The city budget is a uniform resolution of the council of the c.c. of Warsaw, containing district attachments. Districts have their own self-governing bodies, they are: district council and district board (→ municipality’s auxiliary unit, district) [ J. Wojnicki ].
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