South Sudan 2011 Constitution (reviewed 2013)

Schedule (B). Powers of States

The exclusive executive and legislative powers of a state shall be as follows:

1. Adoption or amendment of the state constitution subject to conformity with the National Constitution;
2. State Police, Prisons, Wildlife, Fire Brigade Services;
3. Local Government;
4. State information, publications and mass media;
5. Social Welfare including state pensions;
6. The state Civil Service;
7. State Land and state Natural Resources;
8. Cultural matters within the state;
9. Regulation of religious matters;
10. Internal and external borrowing of money on the sole credit of the state within the National macro-economic framework;
11. The management, lease and utilization of lands belonging to the state;
12. The establishment, maintenance and management of state prisons and reformatories;
13. Establishment, regulation, and provision of health care, including hospitals and other health facilities;
14. Regulation of businesses, trade licenses, working conditions, hours, and holidays within the state;
15. Local works and undertakings;
16. Registration of marriage, divorce, inheritance, birth, death, adoption and affiliations;
17. Enforcement of National and state laws;
18. The development, conservation and management of state natural resources and state forestry resources;
19. Pre-school, primary and secondary education;
20. Agriculture within the state;
21. Airstrips other than international and national airports managed by the civil aviation authority;
22. Intrastate public transport and roads;
23. Population policy and family planning;
24. Pollution control;
25. State statistics, and state surveys;
26. Charities and endowment;
27. Quarrying;
28. Town and rural planning;
29. State cultural and heritage sites, libraries, museums and other historical sites;
30. Traditional Authority and customary law;
31. State finances;
32. State irrigation and embankments;
33. State budgets;
34. State archives, antiquities and monuments;
35. State taxes;
36. State public utilities;
37. Vehicle licensing;
38. Fire control and ambulance services;
39. Recreation and sport within the state;
40. Flag and emblem of the state;
41. Issuance of driving licenses and number plates; and
42. Customary law courts.