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
- 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.
- Municipalities shall always form part of a higher self-governing region.
- Higher self-governing regions may be created or dissolved only by a constitutional act.
Article 101
- Municipalities shall be independently administered by their representative body.
- Higher self-governing regions shall be independently administered by their representative body.
- Territorial self-governing units are public law corporations which may own property and manage their affairs on the basis of their own budget.
- 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
- Members of representative bodies shall be elected by secret ballot on the basis of a universal, equal, and direct right to vote.
- 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[Repealed]Article 104
- The powers of representative bodies shall be provided for only by statute.
- 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.
- 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.