CITY COUNCIL

System Administrator

The city councils are composed of councilors elected by universal, equal, direct, secret and free vote, under the conditions established by the Law on Local Elections.

The number of members of each city council is established by order of the prefect, depending on the population of the commune or city, reported by the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies on January 1st of the current year or, as the case may be, on July 1st. of the year preceding the elections, as follows:

The city council has the initiative and decides, in accordance with the Law, on all issues of local interest, except those that are given by Law in the competence of other public, local or central authorities.

The city council has the following main responsibilities:

  • elects from among the councilors  the deputy mayor, respectively the deputy mayors, per case; establishes, within the limits of the legal norms, the number of personnel in its own apparatus;
  • approves the statute of the commune or of the city, as well as the regulation for organization and functioning of the council;
  • approves or endorses, as the case may be, studies, forecasts and programs for economic and social development, organization and planning, spatial planning and urban planning, including participation in county, regional, zonal development and cross-border cooperation programs, under the conditions of the law;
  • approves the local budget, loans, credit transfers and the execution of the budget reserve; approves the closing account of the fiscal year; establishes local taxes and fees, as well as special taxes, in accordance with the law;
  • approves, at the mayor’s proposal, according to law, the organizational chart, the list of positions, the number of staff and the regulation for organization and functioning of the specialized apparatus, of the public institutions and services, as well as of the autonomous utilities of local interest;
  • manages the public and the private domain of the commune or city;
  • decides on the administration, concession or rental of the public property goods of the commune or city, as the case may be, as well as of the public services of local interest, in accordance with the law;
  • decides the sale, concession or rental of the privately owned goods of the commune or city, as the case may be, in accordance with the law;
  • establishes public institutions, companies and public services of local interest; monitors, controls and analyzes their activity; establishes, in compliance with the general criteria legaly established, norms of organization and functioning for public institutions and services of local interest; appoints and dismisses, in accordance with the law, the heads of the public services of local interest, as well as those of the public institutions under his subordination; apply disciplinary sanctions, in accordance with the law, to the persons he has appointed;
  • decides on the establishment and reorganization of the autonomous utilities of local interest; exercises, on behalf of the administrative-territorial unit, all the rights of the shareholder in the commercial companies he has established; decides on the privatization of these companies; appoints and dismisses, in accordance with the law, the members of the boards of directors of the autonomous utilities under his authority;
  • analyzes and approves, in accordance with the law, the spatial planning and urban planning documentation of the localities, establishing the material and financial means necessary for their execution; approves the allocation of funds from the local budget for defense actions against floods, fires, disasters and dangerous meteorological phenomena;
  • establishes the necessary measures for the construction, maintenance and modernization of roads, bridges, and of the entire infrastructure belonging to the communication routes of local interest;
  • approves, within the limits of its competences, the technical-economic documentation for the investment works of local interest and ensures the necessary conditions in order to achieve them;
  • ensures, based on its competences, the material and financial conditions necessary for the proper functioning of the public institutions and services of education, health, culture, youth and sports, defense of public order, fire protection and civil protection, under its authority; monitors and controls their activity;
  • decides, in the localities with insufficient doctors or sanitary personnel, the grant of incentives in kind and in money, as well as other facilities, according to the law, in order to provide medical services for the population; such facilities may be granted to the teaching staff also;
  • contributes to the organization of scientific, cultural, artistic, sports and leisure activities;
  • decides on ensuring public order; analyzes the activity of public guards, police, gendarmerie, firefighters and civil protection teams, in accordance with the law, and proposes measures to improve their activity;
  • acts for the protection and renewal of the environment, in order to increase the quality of life; contributes to the protection, conservation, restoration and enhancement of historical and architectural monuments, parks and nature reservations, in accordance with the law;
  • contributes to the implementation of protection and social assistance measures; ensures the protection of children's rights, according to the legislation in force; approves the criteria for the allocation of social housing;
  • establishes and ensures the functioning of charitable institutions of local interest;
  • establishes and organizes fairs, markets, stalls, amusement parks and locations, sports facilities and ensures their proper functioning;
  • assigns or changes, in accordance with the law, the names of streets, markets and local public interest objectives;
  • awards to the Romanian or foreign natural persons, with special merits, the title of honorary citizen of the commune or of the city;
  • decides, in accordance with the law, the cooperation or association with Romanian or foreign legal entities, with non-governmental organizations and with other social partners, in order to finance and jointly carry out actions, works, services or projects of local public interest; decides the twinning of the commune or city with similar administrative-territorial units from other countries;
  • decides, in accordance with the law, on the cooperation or association with other local public administration authorities from the country or from abroad, as well as the accession to national and international associations of the local public administration authorities, for the promotion of common interests;
  • supports, in accordance with the law, the activity of religious cults;
  • ensures the freedom of trade and encourages free initiative, in accordance with the law.