Czech Republic 1993 Constitution (reviewed 2013)

Chapter VII. Territorial Self-Government

Article 99

The Czech Republic is subdivided into municipalities, which are the basic territorial self-governing units, and into regions, which are the higher territorial self-governing units.

Article 100

1. Territorial self-governing units are territorial communities of citizens with the right to self-government. A statute shall specify the cases when they shall be administrative districts.
2. Municipalities shall always form part of a higher self-governing region.
3. Higher self-governing regions may be created or dissolved only by a constitutional act.

Article 101

1. Municipalities shall be independently administered by their representative body.
2. Higher self-governing regions shall be independently administered by their representative body.
3. Territorial self-governing units are public law corporations which may own property and manage their affairs on the basis of their own budget.
4. The state may intervene in the affairs of territorial self-governing units only if such is required for the protection of law and only in the manner provided for by statute.

Article 102

1. Members of representative bodies shall be elected by secret ballot on the basis of a universal, equal, and direct right to vote.
2. Representative bodies shall have a four-year electoral term. The circumstances under which new elections for representative bodies shall be called prior to the expiration of an electoral term shall be designated by statute.

Article 103

[Repealed]

Article 104

1. The powers of representative bodies shall be provided for only by statute.
2. Representative bodies of municipalities shall have jurisdiction in matters of self-government, to the extent such matters are not entrusted by statute to the representative bodies of higher self-governing regions.
3. Representative bodies may, within the limits of their jurisdiction, issue generally binding ordinances.

Article 105

The exercise of state administration may be delegated to self-governing bodies only if such is provided for by statute.