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 government delayed announcement of the results and then claimed a highly dubious 52 % victory overall and the capture of 19 of 27 municipal councils.

Between January and April 1992, a president, National Assembly, and municipal councils were elected.

Elections are held in Marxist-Leninist states for all positions within the legislative structure, municipal councils, national legislatures and presidencies.

Regional governors are appointed, usually from the royal family, and preside over one or more municipal councils, half of whose members are appointed and half elected.

Half the members of the municipal councils were to be elected.

In 2007, a Saudi commentator noted that the municipal councils were proving to be powerless.

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 ).

Each county has its own county council ( fylkesting ) whose representatives are elected every four years together with representatives to the municipal councils.

The departments are further divided into communes, governed by municipal councils.

Councillor Alex Cameron of Malvern, who led the push for a municipal tramway service, was elected chairman of the trust by both Malvern & Prahran councils.

On, the Tsar issued a manifesto promising the broadening of the Zemstvo and local municipal councils ' authority, insurance for industrial workers, the emancipation of Inorodtsy, and the abolition of censorship.

The PvdA became by far the largest party nationally, while the three governing parties lost a considerable number of seats in municipal councils.

Under these governors, the great and small councils continued to discharge municipal business and to administer the Paduan law, contained in the statutes of 1276 and 1362.

Mayors and municipal councils are elected.

Historically there have always been parties in States-Provincial ( provincial legislatures ) and Gemeenteraad ( municipal assemblies or city councils ) that were independent from the national party system.

First, at the district and municipal level, traditional shura councils met to pick electors — persons who cast ballots for Loya Jirga delegates.

The municipal councils began in 2005 and is the second level of local government.

Municipalities are run by mayors, who are elected to four-year terms, and by directly elected municipal councils.

The municipalities are governed by municipal councils which are directly elected every four years The sizes of these councils vary from five members in the smallest municipalities to fifteen in the largest one.

County and municipal councils are popularly elected every four years.

Mexico's 2, 378 municipalities are governed by municipal presidents and municipal councils.

He was re-elected in 2000 for a second municipal term, until he was elected as the Provincial Member of Parliament for Sault Ste.

Marie's legal department, and for 25 years was self-employed in legal private practice in the Sault, specializing in municipal and planning law.

He was also president of the Montreal Royals Triple-A baseball club, elected to the Longueuil municipal council, on the board of directors of Ste.

He served for ten years on the municipal council of Ste.

Registered Democrats in New York City this year have the opportunity to elect their party's candidates for Mayor and other municipal posts and the men who will run their party organization.

While all citizens share in blame for lax municipal ethics the Wagner regime has seen serious problems in the schools, law enforcement and fiscal policies.

This year's Senate measure would provide each state and the District of Columbia with $1,000,000 to be used in support of private, state, or municipal ETV efforts.

Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.

It is not in business for the purpose of absorbing increased municipal costs no matter how high a purpose that may be ''.

At the same time there has been an upgrading and expansion of municipal services as well.

To determine the practice and attitude of municipal governments concerning tangible movable property, a questionnaire was sent to all local government assessors or boards of assessors in Rhode Island.

In view of the increasing shortage of usable surface and ground water in many parts of the Nation and the importance of finding new sources of supply to meet its present and future water needs, it is the policy of the Congress to provide for the development of practicable low-cost means for the large-scale production of water of a quality suitable for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and other beneficial consumptive uses from saline water, and for studies and research related thereto.

Currently, marina is used to indicate a municipal or commercially operated facility where a pleasure boat may dock and find some or all of the following available: gasoline, fresh water, electricity, telephone service, ice, repair facilities, restaurants, sleeping accommodations, a general store, and a grocery store.

The area may provide good springs or opportunities for a well or be near to municipal water lines.

These have to do with property rights, municipal official attitudes and a host of others.

However, as witnessed by the large corporate bond calendar at present, as well as the record amount of municipal bond issues approved by voters, the over-all demands for capital funds seem likely to remain high, so that any downward pressure on rates from reduced demand should not be great.

In municipal systems we tend to view what is called positivism as fundamentally a movement to democratize policy by increasing the power of parliament -- the elected representatives -- at the expense of the more conservative judiciary.

In the first place the new doctrine brought a formal separation of international from municipal law, rejecting the earlier view that both were parts of a universal legal system.

The change was not quite so dramatic as it sounds because in fact common norms continued to be invoked by municipal courts and were only gradually changed by legislation, and then largely in marginal situations.

It may be county school board or state school board action, as well as that of municipal school boards.

And I have established that the action of municipal, county, or state school boards or boards of education is small, infinitesimally small in comparison with the number of districts.

He is a trustee for the common good, however feeble the safeguards which the positive or municipal law of property provides against his misuse of that share of the common fund, wisely or unwisely, entrusted to his keeping.

In contrast to this Stoic-patristic view, Utopia implies that the nature of man is such that to rely on individual conscience to supply the deficiencies of municipal law is to embark on the bottomless sea of human sinfulness in a sieve.

Some municipal agencies will pay for orthodontic treatment for children of needy parents.

Where schools, fire and police protection, and similar municipal services are of equal quality in city and country, real estate taxes are usually about the same.

It has flared up periodically on the front pages of newspapers in communities divided over birth-prevention regulations in municipal hospitals and health and family-welfare agencies.

Pasley continued: `` They became an institution of the Chicago scene and marked the way to the moral and financial collapse of the municipal and county governments in 1928-29 ''.

Some opposition to the home rule movement started to be heard yesterday, with spokesmen for the town's insurgent Democratic leadership speaking out against the home rule charter in favor of the model municipal league charter.

A big-league municipal stadium at Flushing Meadow Park is in the works, and once the lease is signed the local club will be formally recognized by Commissioner Ford C. Frick.