The Croatian constitution and legislation provides for regular presidential and parliamentary elections, and the election of county prefects and assemblies, and city and municipal mayors and councils.

The island is divided into six municipalities with their respective city councils which form part of the FECAM ( Federation of Canarian Municipalities ).

In the UK, city councils have the power to take action against the owner of any property that has been defaced under the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 ( as amended by the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 ) or, in certain cases, the Highways Act.

The terms of office for president, vice president, and congressional deputies were reduced from five years to four years ; for Supreme Court justices from six years to five years, and increased the terms of mayors and city councils from 30 months to four years.

Six of the 26 original counties have more than one local authority ; there are now 29 county councils and five city councils-a total of 34 local government entities.

Additionally, the areas of five large population centres-Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford-are governed by city councils ( previously known as corporations or county boroughs or county corporates ).

* In Israel, a municipality generally takes one of three forms: city councils, which governs a large municipality, local councils, which governs a small municipality, and regional councils, which governs a group of communities, often but not necessarily of a rural nature.

The majority of smaller or urban roads are managed by city or district councils, although some are fall under the control of other authorities, such as the New Zealand Department of Conservation or port and airport authorities.

Many cities, including New York City, once used it to break up the Democratic Party city councils monopolies on elective office.

The first uniform elections for these councils covering the whole area of the city were held on 20 March 2011.

* At least four county or city councils ( there are 34 councils )

The 22 urban units are further classified as city councils ( Dar es Salaam and Mwanza ), municipal councils ( Arusha, Dodoma, Iringa, Kilimanjaro, Mbeya, Morogoro, Shinyanga, Tabora, and Tanga ) or town councils ( the remaining eleven communities ).

The local councils are charged with hearing the important issues that affect the district, although the final decision on any issue rests with the city council.

Greens held mayorships in California and New York, and positions on city, neighborhood, or common councils in the West, South, Midwest, and Northeast.

The telephone service in the United Kingdom was originally provided by private companies and local city councils, but by 1912 – 13 all except the telephone service of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire and Guernsey had been bought out by the General Post Office.

Arafat also took the liberty to replace and assign mayors and city councils for major cities such as Gaza and Nablus.

Zwingli and Calvin were supported by the city councils in Zurich and Geneva.

Yerkes renewed the campaign in 1897, and, after a hard-fought battle, secured from the Illinois Legislature a bill granting city councils the right to approve extended franchises.

Examples include congresses, state legislatures, and city councils.

In c. 325 and again in 410, the city, or the Greek colony directly across the river, was the site of church councils for the Church of the East.

The truck routes, the industrial areas with walls grimed with diesel smoke passed briefly through his mind -- back alleys were their access to a city and they could never stay.

Morgan and his corps were placed on the west side of the Schuylkill River, with instructions to intercept all supplies found going to the city and to keep a close eye on the movements of the enemy.

the rather pleasant white city was on the hill where the chief stores were.

The structured schools were in an industrial city, with three-family tenement houses typical of the residential areas, but with one rather sizable section of middle-class homes.

Equal proportions of children in each city were drawn from upper-lower and lower-middle class neighborhoods.

Extraordinary precautions were taken so that no stranger be allowed in the city and no citizen within the enclosure surrounding the scaffold.

Despite the opposition of the city newspapers, the Pratt Hall meeting `` brought together a very respectable audience, composed in part of those who had been distinguished for years for their radical views upon the subject of slavery, of many of our colored citizens, and of those who were attracted to the place by the novelty of such a gathering ''.

There were lights glinting in the city, too, even though it was now dark enough for a few stars to become visible.

Immediately, the religious groups of the city were embroiled in an angry dispute over the alleged invasion of a man's right to freedom of religious belief and conscience.

In some cities games were broadcast throughout the week and then on weekends the announcer was silenced, and fans must needs drive to the city from all the broadcast area to discover how their heroes were faring.

the cooking odors were stronger -- all over the city, at this hour, housewives would be fussing over stoves.

Salinger said the work President Kennedy, advisers, and members of his staff were doing on the address involved composition and wording, rather than last minute decisions on administration plans to meet the latest Berlin crisis precipitated by Russia's demands and proposals for the city.

Corruption is hardly a recent development in the city and state that were widely identified as the locale of Edwin O'Connor's novel, `` The Last Hurrah ''.

City Controller Alexander Hemphill charged Tuesday that the bids on the Frankford Elevated repair project were rigged to the advantage of a private contracting company which had `` an inside track '' with the city.

The city paid for work on 75, of which no more than 21 were repaired, Hemphill charged.

`` When they became members of the city police narcotics unit '', Sokol said, `` they were told they would have to get to know certain areas of Chicago in which narcotics were sold and they would have to get to know people in the narcotics racket.

Although federal and city narcotic agents sometimes worked together, Sokol continued, rivalries developed when they were `` aiming at the same criminals ''.

Days later, when that city fell, Lincoln visited the vanquished Confederate capital ; as he walked through the city, white Southerners were stone-faced, but freedmen greeted him as a hero.

Over several centuries, numerous Ancient Greek city states were established on the coasts of Anatolia.

The city exported meat, wool, wine, fruit and wheat by the time Grey left in 1845, contrasting with a low point in 1842 when one-third of Adelaide houses were abandoned.

According to the Gospel of Matthew, at the death of Jesus tombs were opened, and at his resurrection many saints who had died emerged from their tombs and went into " the holy city ", presumably New Jerusalem.

Principles of acoustics were applied since ancient times: Roman theatre ( structure ) | Roman theatre in the city of Amman.