Local Elections in Ukraine - Powers

Powers

Bodies subject to local self-government law may be separate arms of the executive. Executive bodies of villages, townships and city councils have jurisdiction in the following areas:

• Socioeconomic and cultural development, planning and accounting
• Budgeting and finance
• Management of municipal property
• Housing, consumer and commercial services, catering, transport and communications
• Construction
• Education, health, culture, physical culture and sports
• Land use and environmental protection
• Social welfare
• Foreign economic activity
• Defense
• Administrative affairs and territorial structure
• Protection of rights, freedoms and lawful interests of citizens and others

At meetings of the village, township and city council, the following issues are decided:

• Makeup of the body's executive committee
• Local referendums
• Transfer of funds, logistical and other resources necessary
• Association with other local bodies
• Approval of socioeconomic and cultural development, target programs and other issues of local government
• Approval of local budgets and amendments
• Approving performance budgeting report
• Local taxes and duties within the limits set by law
• Issuance of municipal bonds
• Providing (in accordance with law) benefits from local taxes and fees
• Exclusions from the law of public property, approval of local privatization programs and a list of public utilities not subject to privatization
• Placement of new facilities, considering the scope of environmental impact in accordance with current regulations
• Territorial structure
• Laws on land use, ensuring the quality of life
• Creation of special free and other areas and changes in their status, on the initiative of the President or the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine

The powers of executive bodies of village, township and city councils are autonomous or delegated. Delegated powers include:

• Monitoring compliance with land and environmental legislation, land use and protection of natural resources at the national and local levels; reforestation
• Registration of land ownership, land-use lease contracts documenting ownership and right to use land
• Disaster relief in accordance with law; public notification
• Defining territory for warehousing, storage or placement of industrial, household and other waste in accordance with law
• Organization and implementation of land-management projects
• Preparation and submission of targeted local programs to improve safety, working conditions and the environment, territorial employment programs and protection of different population groups from unemployment
• Implementation of measures to improve housing and welfare for the disabled, war veterans, victims of political repression, military and former military personnel, families who lost breadwinners, the elderly and children without parental care
• Granting benefits and assistance for the protection of motherhood and childhood; enforcing legislation on guardianship and custody
• Representation of citizens who suffered from natural disasters
• Compensation and benefits to citizens affected by the Chernobyl disaster, as stipulated by law
• Monitoring of safety for employees in hazardous and dangerous jobs, providing employees benefits and compensation for work in hazardous conditions
• Provision for free education and health services for all, training opportunities in public schools and in their native language, study of their native language in state educational establishments and through national cultural societies
• Provision for education and health services, developing and improving the network of educational and medical institutions, physical culture and sport, identifying needs and contracting for training specialists to ensure conformity to legislation governing medicinal products and medical supplies
• Preventing child neglect
• Support of orphans and children left without parental care in boarding schools and orphanages, vocational education and maintenance by the state of those with defects in physical or mental development who cannot study in ordinary schools (special education)
• Protection of historical and cultural monuments, conservation and cultural heritage
• Promotion of military and alternative (civilian) service, mobilization, preparing young people for service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine
• Organization and participation in activities related to civil defense
• Upholding legislative requirements regarding applications, regardless of ownership
• Upholding laws on the conduct of meetings, protests and demonstrations, sports, entertainment and other events
• Crime prevention
• Civil registration