A board's activities are determined by the powers, duties, and responsibilities delegated to it or conferred on it by an authority outside itself.

During these days in which the offices of sadaijin and udaijin were vacant, the major counselors ( the dainagon ) and the emperor assumed responsibilities and powers which would have been otherwise delegated.

Under the DOP, Israel agreed to recognize the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as a " Single Territorial Unit " as well as to transfer certain powers and responsibilities to the Palestinian Authority, which includes the Palestinian Legislative Council elected in January 1996, as part of the interim self-governing arrangements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

A transfer of powers and responsibilities for the Gaza Strip and Jericho took place pursuant to the Israel-PLO 4 May 1994 Cairo Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area.

Historian Peter Longerich observes that Himmler's ability to consolidate his ever-increasing powers and responsibilities into a coherent system under the auspices of the SS led him to become one of the most powerful men in the Third Reich.

Jean and Wolverine address their long-unspoken mutual attraction, deciding it is best not to act on their feelings ; Cyclops grows further alienated from Jean due to her growing powers and institute responsibilities and seeks consolation from the telepathic Emma Frost to address his disillusionment and his experiences while possessed by Apocalypse.

First, it represents the unity of the State in the organic separation of powers ; hence he appoints the prime ministers and summons and dissolves the Parliament, among other responsibilities.

* Summary of duties, powers and responsibilities of the branches of Georgia state government ( Georgia Secretary of State website )

The massive endowments, powers and responsibilities of the Cluniac abbots had drawn them into the affairs of the secular world, and their monks had abandoned manual labour to serfs to serve as administrative officials or " choir monks ".

The Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1929 divided burghs into two classes from 1930: large burghs, which were to gain extra powers from the county council, and small burghs which lost many of their responsibilities.

They have a number of statutory powers and responsibilities of their own.

The Governor has the powers and responsibilities to: sign or veto laws passed by the Legislature, including a line item veto ; appoint judges, subject to ratification by the electorate ; propose a state budget ; give the annual State of the State address ; command the state militia ; and grant pardons for any crime, except cases involving impeachment by the Legislature.

Any powers and responsibilities transferred to the Palestinians through the Declaration of Principles prior to the inauguration of the Council will be subject to the same principles pertaining to Article IV, as set out in the agreed minutes below.

It was agreed that the transfer of authority would be as follows: The Palestinians would inform the Israelis of the names of the authorized Palestinians who would assume the powers, authorities and responsibilities that would be transferred to the Palestinians according to the Declaration of Principles in the following fields: education and culture, health, social welfare, direct taxation, tourism, and any other authorities agreed upon.

The withdrawal of the military government would not prevent Israel from exercising the powers and responsibilities not transferred to the Council.

It was also agreed that the transfer of powers and responsibilities to the Palestinian police would be accomplished in a phased manner.

He has the same powers, responsibilities and duties as the rector of any other parish.

In addition to military and policing responsibilities, the bakufu appointed shugos now absorbed the justice, economical and taxation powers of the local Imperial governors, while the government holdings in each province were rapidly absorbed into the personal holdings of the daimyos or their vassals.

A consolidated city-county is simultaneously a city, which is a municipal corporation ( municipality ), and a county, which is an administrative division of a state, having the powers and responsibilities of both types of entities.

Maryland, in particular, vests its counties with broad powers, including educational responsibilities ( which are normally handled in all other states by school districts specific to particular cities, towns, or regions ).

However, they now govern exactly the same territory, and have elections on the same ballot on Election Day in November, the first Tuesday after the first Monday, of odd-numbered years ; the officials of town and city interact essentially as do the officials of a single town or city who have different but related responsibilities and powers.

Court commissioners are appointed by and serve at the discretion of elected judges ; commissioners have powers and responsibilities equal to elected judges.

The Royal Charter codifies the laws applied to the particular city, and lays out the powers and responsibilities not given to other municipalities in the province concerned.

Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilities of a mayor, as well as the means by which a mayor is elected or otherwise mandated.

The term implies widely different responsibilities in different countries, from being a heavily armed military force with customs and security duties to being a volunteer organization tasked with search and rescue functions and lacking any law enforcement powers.

In five shire counties the functions of the county and district councils were combined into a single authority ; and in two counties the powers of the county council were absorbed into a significantly reduced number of districts.

These towns and cities had the status of a County corporate, many granted by Royal Charter, which had all the judicial, administrative and revenue raising powers of the regular counties.

Regional presidencies of Connacht and Munster remained in existence until 1672, with special powers over their subsidiary counties.

In 1836, the use of counties as local government units was further developed, with grand-jury powers extended under the Grand Jury ( Ireland ) Act 1836.

Elected county councils took over the powers of the grand juries. The boundaries of the traditional counties changed on a number of occasions.

Areas of the cities of Belfast, Cork, Dublin, Limerick, Derry and Waterford were carved from their surrounding counties to become county boroughs in their own right and given powers equivalent to those of administrative counties.

New York has a unique system where 57 of its 62 counties are independently-operated administrative divisions of the state, with normal county executive powers ; while the remaining five are administrative divisions of the City of Greater New York.

The powers of counties arise from state law and vary widely.

In some New England states, such as in Connecticut, parts of Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, counties are now only geographic designations, and they do not have any governmental powers.

At the convention Hendricks was part of the committee that created the organization of the townships and counties of the state, decided upon the taxation and financial portion of the constitution, and also debated the clauses on the powers of the different offices.

The County Council holds legislative powers granted to counties.

Within the area of municipal powers, regional districts, which are somewhat analogous to counties in other jurisdictions, a number of municipalities, and unincorporated areas and to distinguish them from district municipalities and other kinds of district are always referred to as " regional districts ".

In Early Modern Britain, the term palatinate, or county palatine, was also applied to counties of lords who could exercise powers normally reserved to the crown.

Moreover, Chairman Barka headed the Commission on Neo-colonialism, which dealt with the worked to resolve the neo-colonial involvement of colonial powers in decolonised counties ; and said that the U. S., as the leading capitalist country of the world, was, in practise, the principal neo-colonialist political actor.

In 2006 there were thirteen traditional counties as well as three municipalities with county status ( the island of Bornholm, which was a county until 2003, became a regional municipality with county powers ).

Virginia and other states with this model, such as Alabama, Maryland, and Tennessee, set strict requirements on incorporation or grant counties and townships broad powers that in other states are carried out by cities, creating a disincentive to incorporate, and thus have large, urbanized areas which have no municipal government below the county or township level.

Also, the Governor of Hawaii has wide-reaching authority comparably stronger than the other governors in the Union ; administrative powers are more centralized than that of most other states with little authority devolved to the counties, and unlike other states there are no local school districts.

Many powers remained in the hands of traditional bodies such as parishes and the counties of Middlesex, Surrey and Kent.

Towns in several western states and counties also practice town meeting, though generally with more limited powers.

In Greater London and the metropolitan counties the lower tier districts retained a wider range of powers than in the non-metropolitan counties.

However in city counties these institutions do not exist separatelytheir powers and functions are exercised by the city council ( rada miasta ), the directly-elected mayor ( burmistrz or prezydent ), and the city offices ( urząd miasta ).