Chapter 6. LOCAL AGENCIES OF STATE POWER AND SELF-GOVERNING AUTHORITIES
Article 76
Local agencies of state power shall consist of representative and executive organs which function within the limits of their powers. They ensure the implementation of the Constitution, laws, joint resolutions of the Majlisi Milli and the Majlisi Namoyandagon, resolutions of the Majlisi Milli, resolutions of the Majlisi Namoyandagon, [and] acts of the President and the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan.
Article 77
The organ of local representative power in oblasts, cities and rayons is the Majlis of People’s Deputies which is guided by the Chairman. The term of the Majlis of People’s Deputies is 5 years.
The Majlis of People’s Deputies approves the local budget and reports on its implementation, determines the ways of socio-economic development of the area [and] local taxes and payments in accordance with law, determines the ways of administering and governing communal property, [and] exercises other powers determined by the Constitution and laws.
Article 78
The local executive body of the local state power is exercised by the President’s representative – the Chairman of oblast, city, and rayon.
The representative and executive power in the corresponding administrative and border units is headed by the Chairman.
The President appoints and dismisses the Chairmen of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast, oblasts, the city of Dushanbe, cities, and rayons presenting their candidatures for approval of the corresponding Majlis of People’s Deputies.
The Chairman is responsible before the higher executive organ and the corresponding Majlis of People’s Deputies.
The founding procedure, powers, and activity of the organs of local agendies of state power are regulated by a constitutional law.
The organ of self-government of a settlement or village is the Jamoat, whose founding procedure, powers, and activity are regulated by law.
Article 79
The representative organs and the Chairman within the limits of their powers adopt legal acts obligatory for implementation on the corresponding territory.
In case the acts of the representative organs and the Chairman do not correspond to the Constitution and laws, they are abolished by higher organs, the organ itself, the Chairman , and the court.
Article 80
In the case of a systematic non-compliance of the Majlis of People’s Deputies of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast, oblasts, the city of Dushanbe, cities, and rayons to the Constitution and laws, the Majlisi Milli has the right to dissolve it.
