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Act Of 5 June 1998 On The Local Government Of

Original Language Title: USTAWA z dnia 5 czerwca 1998 r. o samorządzie województwa

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ACT

of 5 June 1998

o self-government of the voivodship

Chapter 1

General provisions

Article 1. [ Regional Local Government] 1. The inhabitants of the voivodship are formed by virtue of the regional law of the local government.

2. Whenever the law refers to the voivodship or provincial government, this shall be understood by the regional self-government and the relevant territory.

Article 2. [ Scope of activity of the province's self-government] 1. The bodies of the self-government of the voivodship act on the basis and within the limits set by the Act

2. The scope of the activity of the voivodship is to perform public tasks of a provincial nature, unreserved statutes for the bodies of government administration.

Article 3. [ The team of self-government] The self-government administration in the voivodship is grouped in one office and under one authority.

Article 4. [ Self-reliance of the district and the municipality] 1. The scope of action of the self-government of the voivodship is without prejudice to the independence of the district and

2. The bodies of the self-government of the voivodship shall not constitute the district and the municipality of the supervisory or control bodies and shall not be the authorities of a higher degree in administrative proceedings.

Article 5. [ Popular vote for residents] 1. The residents of the voivodship shall take settlement in the general vote (by way of elections and referendum) or through the bodies of the voivodship's self-government.

2. (repealed).

3. (repealed).

4. (repealed).

5. The rules and mode of holding the referendum shall be determined by a separate law.

Article 6. [ voivodship] 1. The self-government of the voivodship:

1) carry out specific laws of public tasks on their own behalf and on their own responsibility;

2) have a provincial town;

3) lead the financial economy itself on the basis of the budget.

2. The voivodship shall have legal personality.

3. The independence of the voivodship is subject to judicial protection.

Article 7. [ Statute of voivodship] 1. The dress of the voivodship as an entity of local government shall determine the statutes of the voivodship passed after the agreement with the Prime Minister.

2. The statute and its changes shall be subject to notice in the voivodship journal.

Article 8. [ Voivodship Tasks] 1. In order to perform the tasks of the voivodship, it creates the voivodship of local government units and may conclude agreements with other entities.

2. The voivodship may contain with other voivodships and the units of the local local government from the area of the voivodship agreement on entrustment of conducting public tasks.

3. The provisions of the Act of 8 March 1990 shall apply mutatis mutandis. of the municipal government (Dz. U. of 2013 r. items 594).

4. The agreements referred to in paragraph 1 shall be laid down in the 2, they shall be declared in the voivodship journal.

Art. 8a. [ Granting mutual assistance] The voivodships may provide assistance, including financial assistance, to each other or other local government units.

Article 8b. [ Creating associations by voivodships] 1. The voivodships may form associations, including those with municipalities and powiats.

2. The associations referred to in paragraph shall be referred to in paragraph 2. 1, the provisions of the Act of 7 April 1989 shall apply accordingly. -Law on associations (Dz. U. of 2001. Nr 79, pos. 855, of late. zm.), except that at least 3 founders are required for the establishment of the association.

Article 9. [ Acts of local law] The provincial government, on the basis of statutory authorisations, constitutes acts of local law in force in the area of the voivodship.

Article 10. [ Seat of the authorities of the province's self-government] The separate law shall determine the seat of the authorities of the provincial government.

Article 10a. [ Consultations with the inhabitants of the voivodship] 1. In the cases provided for by the Act and in other matters valid for the voivodship may be carried out on its territory consultations with the inhabitants of the voivodship.

2. The rules and mode of conducting consultations with the inhabitants of the voivodship shall determine the resolutions of the state's seismic.

Chapter 2

Scope of activity

Article 11. [ Development Strategy] 1. The self-government of the voivodship defines the development strategy of the voivodship, taking into account in particular the following objectives

1) cultivating Polishness and the development and shaping of national, civic and cultural awareness of the inhabitants, as well as the nurturing and development of local identity;

2. stimulation of economic activity;

3) raising the level of competitiveness and innovativeness of the state economy;

4) preserving the value of the cultural and natural environment, taking into account the needs of future generations;

5) shaping and maintenance of spatial order.

1a. (repealed).

1b. In the development strategy of the voivodship, a period which is not falling outside the current medium-term strategy for the development of the country shall be allocated.

1c. The Development Strategy of the voivodship contains:

1) diagnosis of the socio-economic situation of the voivodship;

2) determining the objectives of strategic development policy of the voivodeship;

3) determine the directions of activities undertaken by the voivodship's self-government to achieve the objectives of strategic development policy of the voivodeship

4) (repealed);

5) (repealed).

1d. The development strategy of the voivodship takes into account the objectives of the country's medium-term development strategy, the national strategy of regional development, the relevant supra-regional strategies, as well as the objectives and directions of the country's spatial development concept.

1e. [ 1] The Voivodship Development Strategy can be updated at any time, if the socio-economic situation or the spatial situation of the voivodship so requires. The paragraph shall apply mutatis mutandis. 1-1da, art. 12 and art. 12a and art. 6, art. 6a, art. 10a and art. 13 of the Act of 6 December 2006. the principles of development policy.

2. The self-government of the voivodship conducts the development policy of the voivodship, which consists of:

1) creating conditions for economic development, including the creation of the labour market;

2) maintenance and expansion of the social and technical infrastructure of the voivodship importance;

3) the acquisition and pooling of financial resources: public and private, in order to carry out tasks in the field of public utility;

4) support and carry out activities to raise the level of education of citizens;

5) the rational use of nature resources and the shaping of the environment, in accordance with the principle of sustainable development;

6. to support the development of science and cooperation between science and economy, promotion of technological progress and innovation;

7. fostering the development of culture and the exercise of the care of cultural heritage and its rational use;

8) promotion of the fight and development opportunities of the voivodship;

9) support and carry out activities for social inclusion and countering social exclusion.

3. The development strategy of the voivodship shall be implemented by development programmes, the regional operational programme, the programme for the implementation of the Partnership Agreement and the territorial contract, referred to in the Act of 6 December 2006. the principles of development policy.

4. The self-government of the voivodship, on its own initiative or at the request of local government or district government, may apply for the financing of the implementation of development programmes, the regional operational programme and the programme to implement the agreement Partnership in the field of cohesion policy, drawn up by the Management Board of the voivodship, State budget measures and measures coming from the budget of the European Union and other measures coming from foreign sources, in the mode specified in separate rules.

5. Execution of tasks related to regional development in the area of the voivodship belongs to the Voivodeship's self-government. The rules for the financing of regional development and the sources of income of the voivodship in this regard are determined

Article 12. [ Entities of cooperation] 1. The self-government of the voivodship, in formulating the strategy of development of the voivodship and implementation of its development policy, cooperates in particular with:

1) local self-government units from the voivodship area and with the economic and professional self-government;

2) the government administration, especially with the water-water;

3) other voivodships;

(4) the non-governmental organisations and entities listed in the Article. 3 para. 3 of the Act of 24 April 2003. about the activity of the public benefit and about the volunteer (Dz. U. of 2010 No 234, pos. 1536, as of late. zm.);

5) superiors and scientific-research units;

6) (repealed).

2. By performing the tasks specified in the paragraph. 1, the provincial government may also cooperate with international organizations and regions of other states, especially neighboring ones.

Art. 12a. [ Sejmik Voivodship] 1. The Sejmik of the voivodship shall determine the rules, mode and timetable for the development of the Voivodship Development Strategy, having regard in particular

1) the tasks of the authorities of the local government in determining the development strategy of the voivodship;

2) the mode and principles of cooperation with the entities mentioned in art. 12.

2. The Uchwała sejmiku Voivodtwa Concerning Cases Listed in ust. 1 shall be published in the Voivodship Official Journal.

Article 13. [ Company z o.o., joint-stock companies and cooperatives] 1. In the sphere of utility of the public the voivodship may create limited liability companies, joint-stock companies or cooperatives, and can also join such companies or cooperatives.

2. Outside the sphere of public utility the voivodship may create limited liability companies and joint-stock companies and join them, if the activities of the companies consist in the performance of promotional, educational, publishing and on carrying out telecommunication activities for the development of the voivodship.

Article 14. [ Provincial Tasks] 1. The self-government of the voivodship shall perform tasks of the provincial capacity determined by statutes, in particular in the scope of:

1) public education, including higher education;

2) promotion and protection of health;

3) culture and protection of monuments and care of monuments;

4. social assistance;

(4a) support for the family and replacement of the replacement furnace system;

5. pro-family policy;

6) modernisation of rural areas;

7) land use;

8. environmental protection;

9) water management, including flood protection, and in particular the equipment and maintenance of the voivodship-flood storage facilities;

10) collective transport and public roads;

11) physical culture and tourism;

12. the protection of consumers ' rights;

13. defence;

14. public safety;

15) countering unemployment and activation of the local labour market;

15a) activities in the field of telecommunications;

16) the protection of employees ' claims in the event of the insolvency of the employer.

2. The laws may specify the cases belonging to the scope of the Voivodeship's activity as a task of government administration, carried out by the Board of Governors.

3. The Act may impose on the voivodship the obligation to perform tasks in the scope of the organization of preparation and holding of general elections and referendums.

Chapter 3

Authorities of the local government

Article 15. [ Voivodship Authorities] The authorities of the voivodship are:

1) provincial seismics;

2) the Board of Governors.

Art. 15a. [ Disclosure of provincial authorities ' actions] 1. The activities of the authorities of the voivodship shall be Explicit restrictions can only be the result of a set of laws.

2. Disclosure of the activity of the authorities of the voivodship includes, in particular, the right of citizens to obtain information, admission to the sessions of the state's purse and the meeting of its committee, and access to documents resulting from the performance of public tasks, including minutes of the meetings of the voivodship bodies and the Sejmik of the Voivodeship

3. The rules of access to documents and the use of them shall be defined by the voivodship.

Article 16. [ Sejmik Voivodship] The Sejmik of the voivodship shall be the authority and control body of the voivodship.

2. The tenure of the state's seiner shall be 4 years, counting from the day of the election.

3. The Sejmik of the voivodship shall enter the counties elected in direct elections in the number of thirty in voivodships of up to 2 000 000 inhabitants and after three councillors for each successive start of 500,000 inhabitants.

4. The rules and mode of holding elections to the state's seismic shall be determined by a separate law.

Article 17. [ Cancellation of the seismic before the end of the term On appeal of the Sejmik of the voivodship before the expiry of the term of office resolves exclusively by the voivodship referendum.

Article 18. [ Cumulative seismick property] The exclusive property of the state's purse seismic shall be:

1. the setting up of acts of local law, in particular:

(a) the statutes of the

(b) the rules governing the management of the province,

c) the rules and mode of use of the voivodship facilities and public utility facilities;

2) the adoption of the Voivodship Development Strategy;

3) the adoption of a zoning plan;

4) making resolutions on the mode of work on the draft budget resolution;

5) adopting resolutions on the detail of the state budget of the voivodship, with the proviso that the specificity may not be less than specified in the separate provisions;

6) the adoption of the voivodship budget;

7) laying down the rules for the granting of the subsidies in question and the voivodship's budget;

8) (repealed);

9) consideration of reports on implementation of the voivodship budget, financial statements of the voivodship, and reports on the implementation of multiannual voivodship programmes

10) taking resolutions on granting or not granting discharge to the Management Board of the voivodship in respect of the implementation of the state budget;

11) passing, within the limits of certain laws, regulations on taxes and local charges;

12) taking a resolution on entrustment of the tasks of the local government to other units of local government;

13) passing on "Priorities of foreign cooperation of the voivodship";

14) take a resolution on participation in international regional associations and other forms of regional cooperation;

15) the choice and dismissals of the voivodship's management and the determination of the remuneration of the Marshal

16) consideration of the reports on the activities of the voivodship's management, including in particular the financial activities and implementation of the programmes referred to in point 2;

17) appointment and recall, upon request of the Marshal of the voivodship, the treasurer of the voivodship, which is the main accounting officer of the voivodship's budget;

18) take resolutions on the creation and resolution of associations and foundations, as well as their access to or presence of associations;

19) taking a resolution on the property of the voivodship concerning:

(a) the rules for the acquisition, disposal and placing on the market of immovable property and the leasing or renting of immovable property for a period of more than 3 years, or for an indefinite period of time, unless specifically provided for in the Special Act; the resolution of the Voivodeship's purse is required. also, where, after a contract concluded for a period of up to 3 years, the parties contain successive contracts, the subject of which is the same property; pending the determination of the rules, the Management Board may carry out these operations only with the consent of the voivodship's seismik,

(b) the issuing of bonds and the definition of the arrangements for their divestment, acquisition and redemption,

(c) borrowing of long-term loans and loans,

(d) the fixing of the maximum amount of loans and short-term loans contracted by the Management Board of the voivodship and the maximum amount of loans and guarantees provided by the Board of Governors for the financial year,

(e) the creation and accession of commercial law companies or cooperatives and the definition of the rules for contributions, as well as the acquisition, acquisition and disposal of shareholdings and shares,

(f) the formation, transformation and liquidation of the local government units and equipping them with assets;

19a) making a resolution on the rules for granting scholarships to pupils and students;

20) taking resolutions in other cases reserved by statutes and the statutes of the voivodship to the competence of the state's purse seismic;

21) the adoption of regulations concerning internal organization and the mode of operation of the authorities of the voivodship's authorities.

Article 19. [ Sejmiku's glory] 1. Resolutions of the Sejmik of the voivodship shall be decided by a simple majority of votes, in the presence of at least half of the statutory composition of the Sejmik, in a public or non-confidential ballot, unless the provisions of the Act provide otherwise.

2. (repealed).

3. Rejection in the vote of the decision granting discharge shall be tantamount to adopting a resolution on the non-discharge of discharge.

Article 20. [ Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Sejmik] The Sejmik of the voivodship shall elect from its chairman and no more than 3 Vice-Presidents, by an absolute majority of votes in the presence of at least half of the statutory composition of the seismic, in a secret ballot.

2. The Chairperson and Vice-Presidents of the Sejmik of the voivodship shall not be included in the Board of the Voivodeship

3. The task of the chairman of the state's purse seismic is exclusively organizing the work of the seismic and holding the deliberations of the Sejmik The President may appoint a Vice-Chairperson to perform his duties. In the absence of the President and the appointment of the Vice-President, the President's duties shall be exercised by the Vice-Presidents of the oldest

4. The appeal of the chairman and vice-chairman of the state's seiner shall be made at the request of at least 1/4 of the statutory composition of the state's seismic, in the mode specified in the paragraph. 1.

5. In the case of the resignation of the Chairman or the Vice-Chairperson, the Sejmik of the voivodship shall take a resolution on the acceptance of this resignation, no later than within 1 month from the day of the

6. Failure to adopt the resolution referred to in paragraph 1. 5, within 1 month of the day of the resignation by the Chairman or Vice-President, is tantamount to accepting the resignation of the voivodship's seismik with the expiry of the last day of the month in which the resolution should be taken.

7. In the event of cancellation or acceptance of the resignation of the President and the Vice-Presidents and the failure to take their place in their place within 30 days from the day of acceptance of the resignation or from the day of cancellation, the session of the state's purse seismic in order to the election of the President, shall be convened in water. The session shall be convened for a day falling within 7 days after the expiry of the time limit referred to in the first sentence.

8. Session of the Sejmik of the voivodship referred to in the mouth. 7, until the election of the President leads the eldest of the councillors present at the session, who expressed his consent to hold the session.

Article 21. [ Sejmik Sessions] 1. The Sejmik of the voivodship shall sit on the sessions convened by the chairman of the seismic shall, as necessary, not less frequently than once a quarter. The notice of convening the session shall be accompanied by the agenda as well as the draft resolutions.

2. The Sejmik of the voivodship may make changes to the agenda by an absolute majority of votes of the statutory composition of the seismic.

3. The first session of the newly elected Sejmik of the voivodship shall be convened by the electoral commissioner competent in the exercise of general interest activities for the day falling within 7 days after the announcement of the summary results of the elections to the councils in the area of the country.

4. (repealed).

5. In the case of early elections, the first session shall be convened by the person, whom the President of the Council of Ministers has appointed to perform the functions of bodies of local government units. The provisions of the paragraph 3 shall apply mutatis mutandis.

6. The first session of the newly elected Sejmik of the voivodship until the election of the Sejmik President leads the oldest city councillor present at the session.

7. At the request of at least 1/4 of the statutory composition of the Sejmik of the voivodship the chairman of the seismic shall be required to convene a session for the day falling within 7 days from the day of submission of the application. A request to convene a session should meet the requirements set out in the paragraph. 1.

8. To change the agenda of the session convened in the mode specified in the paragraph. 7 The provision of paragraph 7 shall apply. 2, except that the consent of the applicant is additionally required.

9. At the request of the Marshal of the voivodship the chairman of the state's seiner is obliged to enter on the agenda of the nearest session of the Sejmik a draft resolution, if the applicant is the management board of the voivodship, and the project has received a purse seismite at least 7 days before the start of the seismick session.

Article 22. [ Councillors vow] 1. Radny before taking office shall make a vow:

" I solemnly solemnly and conscientiously perform the duties of the Polish Nation, to safeguard the sovereignty and interests of the Polish State, to do everything for the prosperity of the Fatherland, the community of local government and the good of the citizens, to observe The Constitution and other rights of the Republic of Poland ".

The vow can be made with the addition of the sentence "So help me God".

2. (repealed).

3. Radny absent from the first session of the Sejmik of the voivodship, and a councillor who obtained a mandate during the term of office, shall make a vow at the first session on which he is present.

Article 23. [ Councillor's mandate] 1. Radny is to be guided by the good of the local government of the voivodship. Councillors maintain a constant connection with the residents and their organizations, and in particular it accepts the postulates of the voivodship and presents them to the authorities of the voivodship for consideration, however, is not bound by the instructions of the voters.

2. In connection with the exercise of the mandate, the councillor shall enjoy the legal protection provided for the public officers. That provision shall also apply to persons who are members of the Management Board who are not councillors.

3. Radny is obliged to take part in the work of the authorities of the local government and the voivodship of the local government units to which he has been elected or designed.

4. The mandate of the councillor of the Voivodeship shall not be cumulated with:

1) the mandate of a Member or a senator;

2) carrying out the functions of the wojewater or vice-wojewater;

3) membership in the body of another local government unit.

Article 24. [ Regulation of Councillors ' mandate] 1. Radny shall not enter into civil-law relations in property matters with the voivodship or voivodship of local government units, with the exception of legal relations arising from the use of commonly available services on the terms of general and the ratio of the rental of premises to own housing or own business activities and leases, as well as other legal forms of use of the property, if the rental, lease or use are based on conditions common to a type of legal task.

2. Radny shall not take part in the vote on the matters referred to in paragraph. 1, if it concerns his legal interest.

3. The council shall be entitled to a diet and reimbursement of travel expenses.

4. (repealed).

5. The amount of the councillor's allowances may not exceed during the month a total of the semi-torrential amount of the basic amount specified in the Finance Act for the persons occupying the managerial positions of the State on the basis of the provisions of the Act of 23 December 1999 on the shaping of remuneration in the state budget sphere and on the revision of certain laws (Dz. U. of 2011 r. Nr 79, pos. 431 and No. 291, pos. 1707 and 2012 items 1456).

6. The Sejmik of the voivodship when determining the amount of councillors ' diets shall take into account the functions performed by the counci

7. The Diet shall not be entitled to a member of the Management Board in the voivodship in which he or she has been given a mandate.

(8) The Minister responsible for public administration will determine, by means of a regulation, the way in which the fees for reimbursement of travel expenses are to be established, taking account of the advisability of reimbursement of the expenditure actually incurred in connection with the the implementation of the mandate and facilitation of settlement.

Article 25. [ Prohibition of link to function] 1. With a councillor cannot be established a relationship of work in the Marshal's Office in this voivodship, in which the councillor obtained a mandate. This provision does not apply to councillors elected to the administrative board of the voivodship with which the employment relationship is established on the basis of choice.

2. Radny cannot perform the function of the head of the voivodship of the organizational unit and his deputy.

3. The binding by the councillor of the employment relationship referred to in the paragraph. 1 and 2, it is tantamount to renouncing the mandate.

4. The Board of the voivodship or the Marshal of the voivodship shall not entrust the councillor of the voivodship, in which the councillor acquired the mandate, to perform the work on the basis of a

Article 26. [ Unpaid Leave] 1. Radny, who has remained in the Marshal Office before obtaining his mandate or has been employed as manager of the voivodship of the local government unit of the voivodship in which he has obtained the mandate, shall be obliged to make a request for free leave within 7 days from the day of the announcement of the election results by the competent electoral body, before the filing of the oath referred to in art. 22 par. 1.

2. The Radny referred to in paragraph 1, shall receive unpaid leave for the term of office and 3 months after the term of office has expired.

3. Radny receives a holiday free of charge regardless of the type and duration of the employment relationship. The employment relationship established for a fixed period, which would have set before the end of the period of unpaid leave, shall be extended to 3 months after the end of the period of leave.

4. In the case of a councillor employed as the manager of the voivodship of the local government unit taken over or created by the voivodship during the term of office, the term referred to in paragraph. 1, it shall be 6 months from the date of the acquisition or establishment of that unit.

5. Failure to submit by the rejoinder of the application referred to in paragraph. 1, is tantamount to renouncing the mandate.

6. After the expiry of the seat of the councillor in the mouth mode 2, the office of the Marshal or the voivodship of the self-governing body shall return the councillor to work on the same or an equivalent working position, with the remuneration corresponding to the remuneration that the councillor would receive if he had not exercised his leave free of charge. Councillors shall declare their readiness to join the work within 7 days from the date of expiry of the mandate.

Article 27. [ A solution with a councillor of employment] 1. The employer shall be obliged to exempt the councillor from the professional work in order to enable the councillor to take part in the work of the Sejmik of the voivodship and its commission and the Board of the voivodship

2. A solution with a councillor of the employment relationship requires prior consent of the Sejmik of the voivodeship whose councillor is a member. The Sejmik of the voivodship shall refuse consent to the termination of the employment relationship with the councillor if the basis for the termination of this ratio are events related to the exercise of the mandate by that councillor

Article 27a. [ Prohibition to take additional classes] 1. Radni may not take additional classes or receive donations that may undermine the confidence of voters in the exercise of their mandate in accordance with art. 22 par. 1.

2. Radni shall not invoke his or her mandate in connection with any additional activities or activities carried out on his own account or in association with other persons.

Article 27b. [ Prohibition of business activity or occupancy of specific posts] 1. Radni shall not conduct an economic activity on its own account or jointly with other persons with the use of the property of the voivodship in which the councillor obtained the mandate, as well as to manage such activity or to be a representative or a proxy in the conduct of such activities.

2. If the councillor, prior to the implementation of the mandate, has pursued the economic activity referred to in paragraph. 1, is obliged to cease conducting this business activity within 3 months from the date of submission of the oath. Failure to comply with the obligation referred to in the first sentence shall give rise to the finding of the expiry of the mandate of the councillor in accordance with Article 4 ( 383 of the Act of 5 January 2011. -Electoral Code (Dz. U. No 21, pos. 112, of late. zm.).

3. Radni and their spouses and spouses of the members of the management board of the voivodship, voivodship treasuries, provincial secretaries, provincial managers of local government units, and managers and members of governing bodies The voivodships shall not be members of the governing or control and audit authorities or representatives of commercial companies with the participation of the voivodship legal persons or entrepreneurs in which such persons participate. The choice or appointment of these persons for these functions is by virtue of law invalid.

4. If the choice or appointment referred to in paragraph 1 3, prior to the commencement of the duties of the councillor or the day of election of a member of the voivodship or before the appointment of the secretary of the voivodship, appointment as treasurer of the voivodship, provincial manager the organizational unit and the managing person and the member of the management body of the voivodship of the legal person, the persons referred to in the paragraph. 3, shall be obliged to renounce the position or function within 3 months from the date of submission of the oath by the councillor or from the day of choice, employment or appointment as a post. If the position or function of the person referred to in paragraph is not renounced. 3, they shall lose them from the power of the law after the expiry of the period referred to in the first sentence.

5. Radni shall not hold a package of more than 10% of shares or shares in commercial companies with the participation of the voivodship legal persons or entrepreneurs in which such persons participate. Shares or shares in excess of that package should be disposed of by the councillor before the first session of the voivodship's purse and, in the absence of such shares, they shall not participate during the term of office and 2 years after it has expired in the exercise of their respective duties. rights (voting rights, dividend rights, rights to the distribution of assets, rights of collection).

Article 27c. [ Statement of Asset Condition] 1. Radny, member of the administrative board of the voivodship, state treasurer, provincial secretary, provincial head of local government unit, managing person and member of the management body of the voivodship and the person issuing the decisions administrative on behalf of the Marshal of the voivodship shall be required to make a declaration of its assets, hereinafter referred to as the "property declaration". The declaration of property concerns their separate assets and assets covered by the matrimonial property. The declaration of property shall contain information on:

1) cash, real estate, shares and shares in commercial companies and the acquisition from the State Treasury, another state legal entity, local government units, their relationships or from the municipal legal entity of property which was subject to divestment by tender, as well as data on the conduct of economic activities and the occupancy of positions in commercial companies;

(2) income from employment or other gainful activity or classes, with the amounts obtained from each title;

3) a movable property with a value of more than 10 000 zlotys;

4) monetary liabilities with a value of over 10 000 zlotys, including borrowings and loans and the conditions under which they were granted.

2. The person making the declaration of property shall determine in it the belonging of the individual assets, income and liabilities to the separate assets and assets covered by the matrimonial property of the property.

3. The declaration of property together with a copy of its testimony about the amount of the income achieved in the tax year (PIT) for the previous year and its correction shall consist in two copies:

1) councillor-Chairman of the Sejmik of the voivodship;

2) the Marshal of the voivodship, the chairman of the state's purse-wojewoda;

3) deputy marshal of the voivodship, member of the administrative board of the voivodship, state secretary, treasurer of the voivodship, head of the regional self-governing body, managing person and member of the governing body of the voivodship legal person and person issuing administrative decisions on behalf of the Marshal of the voivodship-the Marshal of the voivodship.

4. Radny shall submit his first declaration of property within 30 days from the day of the filing of the vow. The first declaration of the property shall be accompanied by an indication of the method and timing of the cessation of business activity using the property of the voivodship in which he or she has been given a mandate, if he/she has been engaged in such activities before the day of selection. Subsequent declarations of property shall be made by the councillor every year until 30 April, as at 31 December of the preceding year, and 2 months before the expiry of the term of office.

5. Member of the Board of the voivodship, treasurer of the voivodship, provincial secretary, provincial head of local government unit, managing person and member of the management body of the voivodship legal person and the person issuing the decisions administrative on behalf of the Marshal of the voivodship shall submit the first declaration of property within 30 days from the day of election or appointment as or from the date of employment on the basis of a contract of employment. For the first declaration of the assets of the voivodship, the voivodship's treasurer, the provincial secretary, the head of the regional self-governing body, the managing person and a member of the managing body of the voivodship legal person, and the person issuing administrative decisions on behalf of the Marshal of the voivodship shall be obliged to include information on the manner and date of cessation of business activity, if they led it before the day of choice, appointment or employment. Subsequent declarations of property shall be submitted by them each year to 30 April, as at 31 December of the preceding year, and on the day of cancellation of the post or termination of the employment contract.

5a. [ 2] If the time limits set out in the paragraph 4 or 5 shall not be kept, respectively, the chairman of the state's purse, the voivodship or the marshal of the voivodship within 14 days from the date of the declaration of failure to submit the deadline, calls upon the person who has not made the declaration to his immediate submission setting an additional 14-day deadline. That period shall be counted from the date of effective delivery of the summon.

6. The analysis of the data contained in the declaration of property shall be carried out by the persons to whom the declaration of property has been submitted. The persons to whom a declaration of property has been made shall transmit one copy to the treasury responsible for the place of residence of the person submitting the declaration of property. The declaration of property shall be kept for 6 years.

7. The analysis of the data contained in the declaration of property shall also carry out the tax office competent due to the place of residence of the person making the declaration of property. In analysing the declaration of property, the tax office shall also take into account the testimony of the amount of the income achieved in the tax year (PIT) of the spouse of the person making the statement.

8. The subject of the analysis referred to in paragraph 1. 6 and 7, is entitled to compare the content of the analyzed declaration of property and the attached copy of the testimony of the amount of the income achieved in the tax year (PIT) with the content of previously submitted declarations of assets and with attached to them copies of testimonies of the amount of income achieved in the tax year (PIT).

9. In case of suspicion that a person making a declaration of property has given the truth or withheld the truth in it, the entity making the analysis of the statement occurs to the Director of the tax control office competent for the person's place of residence a statement of the request for the control of its declaration of property.

10. In the case of refusal to initiate the control of the declaration of the property, the entity which lodged the application in this case shall have recourse to the General Tax Inspectorate.

11. The provisions of the Act of 28 September 1991 shall apply to the proceedings on the control of the declaration of property. about the treasury control (Dz. U. of 2011 r. Nr 41, pos. 214, of late. zm.) concerning the control of the declarations of property of persons employed or serving in the organisational units of the subordinate to the Minister responsible for public finance.

12. The entity carrying out the analysis of property declarations by 30 October of each year shall present to the Sejm the voivodship of information on:

1) persons who have not made a declaration of property or have filed them after the deadline;

2) irregularities found in the analysis of the property statements together with their description and the indication of the persons who made the incorrect statements;

3) the actions taken in connection with irregularities found in the analysis of the property statements.

13. The President of the Council of Ministers shall determine, by means of a regulation, the model form of the property statement of the councillor and the model form of the declaration of the property declaration form member of the voivodship, state treasurer, provincial secretary, provincial manager the local government unit, the managing person and the member of the governing body of the voivodship legal person and the person issuing administrative decisions on behalf of the Marshal of the voivodship, taking into account the prohibitions set out in relation to these persons in the provisions of the Act of 21 August 1997. of a restriction on the conduct of business activities by persons performing public functions (Dz. U. 2006 r. No. 216, item. 1584, as of late. zm.).

Art. 27d. [ Disclosure of financial statements] 1. The information contained in the declaration of property shall be overt, with the exception of the information on the address of the residence making the declaration and the location of the property.

2. The voivodship and the chairman of the state's purse seismic shall transmit to the Marshal of the voivodship copies of the property declarations made to them.

3. The explicit information contained in the declaration of assets shall be made available in the Public Information Bulletin, as referred to in the Act of 6 September 2001. on access to public information (Dz. U. No 112, pos. 1198, with late. zm.).

Art. 27e. [ 3] (repealed).

Art. 27f. [ Consequences of non-declaration of a declaration of property] 1. [ 4] Failure to submit a declaration of property despite the expiry of the additional time limit referred to in Article 27c par. 5a by:

(1) a councillor shall give an end to the term of office of art. 190 of the Act referred to in art. 27b par. 2;

2) a member of the management board of the voivodship, the treasurer of the voivodship, the secretary of the voivodship, the head of the regional self-government, the managing person and a member of the managing body of the voivodship administrative on behalf of the Marshal of the voivodship-results in the loss of their remuneration for the period from the day on which the statement should be made, until the date of submission of the statement.

2. [ 5] If a member of the management board of the voivodship or the treasurer of the voivodship do not deposit within the time of the declaration of the property, the state purse shall cancel them, by way of a resolution, at the latest 30 days from the date of expiry of the time limit for submission of the declaration.

3. If the provincial secretary, the head of the voivodship of the local government unit, the managing person and a member of the governing body of the voivodship legal person, and the person issuing administrative decisions on behalf of the Marshal of the voivodship will not lodge within the period of the declaration of property, the competent authority shall cancel the declaration or terminate the contract with them at the latest 30 days after the date on which the declaration is due.

4. Appeal and termination of the contract of employment in the mode specified in the paragraph. 2 and 3 shall be tantamount to termination of a contract of employment without notice on the basis of art. 52 § 1 point 1 of the Labour Code.

Article 27g. [ Providing untruths or conceit of the truth in a declaration of property] [ 6] Giving the truth or conceal the truth in a declaration of property shall result in liability under the art. 233 § 1 of the Penal Code.

Art. 27h. [ Prohibition of the acceptance of property after the completion of the performance of the duties] 1. Member of the Board of the voivodship, treasurer of the voivodship, provincial secretary, head of the voivodship of the local government unit, managing person and member of the governing body of the voivodship and the person issuing the decisions administrative, on behalf of the Marshal of the voivodship in the course of the term of office or the duration of employment, and for a period of 3 years after the termination of the duties or the establishment of employment may not accept any kind of property benefit, free of charge or for consideration, at a rate lower than the actual value of the an entity or entity dependent on it, if, by taking part in a decision on a case-by-case basis, it has a direct impact on its content.

2. A dependent entity within the meaning of the paragraph. 1 is the entity in which:

1) the entrepreneur has, directly or indirectly, the majority of the votes in his or her organs, also on the basis of agreements with other partners and shareholders;

2) the entrepreneur is entitled to appoint or dismiss a majority of the members of the governing bodies of the subsidiary;

3) more than half of the members of the board of the entrepreneur are both members of the management board or persons performing managerial functions in the entity remaining with the entrepreneur in relation to the relationship.

3. The ban referred to in paragraph. 1, does not concern the acquisition of the subject or the service available in the public offer, and does not apply to the items customarily used for advertising and promotional purposes and prizes awarded in competitions for artistic activity.

Article 28. [ Task Commissioners] 1. The Sejmik of the voivodship may appoint from its permanent and ad hoc committees to carry out specific tasks.

2. The Statutes of the voivodship shall specify the subject of action, the scope of tasks, the rules concerning the composition, the internal organization and the working mode of the committees appointed by the state's seismist

Article 29. [ Councillors] Councillors can create councillor clubs acting on the basis of the statutes of the voivodship.

Article 30. [ Control of activity of management and local units] The Sejmik of the voivodship shall control the activity of the administrative board of the voivodship and the voivod To that end, he shall set up a review board.

2. The review committee shall be composed of counds, including representatives of all clubs. The membership of the review committee cannot be combined with the functions of the Marshal of the voivodship, the Chairman and the Vice-Presidents of the Sejmik of the voivodship and of the councillors who are members of the Board

3. The review committee shall give an opinion on the implementation of the budget and shall request the Sejmik of the voivodship on granting or not giving a discharge to the Management Board of the voivodship. This request shall be given an opinion by the regional Chamber of Auditors.

Article 31. [ Provincial Administration] 1. The Board of the voivodship shall be the executive authority of the

2. The management board of the voivodship, numbering 5 persons, shall enter the marshal of the voivodship as its chairman, deputy marshal or 2 deputy marshals and other members.

2a. A Member of the Management Board of the voivodship may not be a person who is not a Polish citizen.

3. Membership of the management of the voivodship may not be combined with membership in the body of another local government unit and with employment in government administration, as well as with the mandate of the Member and the senator. The loss of membership of the Voivodship Management Board takes place on the day of selection or employment.

4. Resolutions of the voivodship shall be decided by a simple majority of votes in the presence of at least half of the statutory composition of the Management Board in the public vote, unless otherwise provided by the provisions of the Act.

5. In the event of an equal number of votes resolves the vote of the Marshal of the voivodship.

Article 32. [ Authority of the Sejmik and the Management Board of the Voivodeship] 1. The Sejmik of the voivodship shall elect the management of the voivodship, including the Marshal of the voivodship and no more than 2 Vice-Marshals, within 3 months from the day of the announcement of the election results by the competent electoral body, taking into account the paragraph. 2 and 3.

2. The Sejmik of the voivodship shall elect the Marshal of the voivodship by an absolute majority of votes of the statutory composition of the Sejmik, in secret ballot.

The Sejmik of the voivodship shall elect the Vice-Marshal and the other members of the Management Board at the request of the Marshal by a simple majority of votes in the presence of at least half of the statutory composition of the seismic, in a secret ballot.

4. Marshal, Deputy Marshals and the other members of the Board of the voivodship may be selected from outside the composition of the state's purse seismic.

5. To the members of the management board of the voivodship selected from outside the composition of the Sejmik of the voivodship, 24 ust. 1 and 2.

Article 33. [ State purse seismic solution] 1. If the Sejmik of the voivodship will not make a selection of the Board of the voivodship within the period 32 par. 1, dissolution from the power of law.

2. Information on termination of the state's seiner for the reason referred to in the paragraph. 1 voivode shall make public in mass media and publish, in the form of a notice, in the voivodship of the official journal.

3. After the dissolution of the state's seiner for the reason referred to in the mouth. 1 shall be carried out by early elections.

4. Until the time of the selection of the Management Board by the new Sejm President of the Council of Ministers, at the request of the Minister competent for the affairs of the public administration, shall designate the person who during this period shall act as the organs of the state self-government.

5. If the Sejmik of the voivodeship elected as a result of the pre-term elections referred to in the paragraph 3, shall not make a selection of the Management Board within the period specified in Article 32 par. 1, dissolution from the power of law. The information on the termination of the seismic shall be communicated in accordance with the procedure referred to in paragraph 1. 2.

6. In the case referred to in paragraph. 5 shall not be carried out in the pre-term elections. Until the day of the selection of the Sejmik of the voivodship for the next term of office and the choice of the administrative board of the voivodship and the powers of the authorities of the voivodship takes over the governmental commissioner established by the Prime Minister upon the request public administration.

7. The authorities of the voivodship shall be dissolved under the law also in the cases referred to in art. 390 § 1 point 3 and § 5 of the Act of 5 January 2011 -Electoral Code.

8. In the case of changes in the territorial division of the State, the effects of which shall be determined by Article 390 § 5 and § 8 of the Act referred to in the paragraph. 7, the provisions of the paragraph shall apply mutatis mutandis. 2-6 taking into account the principle that the person, who in this period serves as the state authorities, is designated for each of the voivodships resulting from changes in the territorial division of the State.

Article 34. [ Voivodship Management Reference] 1. The Uchwała sejmiku Voivodtwa w sprawie niereferral Board of Voivodship discharge is equivalent to the submission of an application for the appeal of the Management Board of the voivodship, unless after the end of the financial year the management board of the voivodship has been cancelled from another causes.

1a. The resolution on discharge of the voivodship's purse shall be taken by an absolute majority of votes of the state's purse seismic.

2. The Sejmik of the voivodship shall recognize the case of the administrative appeal of the voivodship for the reason referred 1 in the session convened not earlier than after 14 days after the resolution of the decision not to grant discharge to the Management Board of the voivodship.

The Sejmik of the voivodship, after hearing the request of the audit committee and the opinion of the Regional Chamber of auditors on the resolution of the Sejmik of the voivodship not to grant discharge to the management board of the voivodship, may cancel the management of the voivodship by the majority of the the minimum 3/5 votes of the statutory composition of the seismic, in a secret ballot.

4. (repealed).

Article 35. (repealed).

Article 36. (repealed).

Article 37. [ Reference of Marshal of the Province] 1. The Sejmik of the voivodship may revoke the Marshal of the Voivodeship for any other reason than the failure to grant discharge only at the request of at least 1/4 of the statutory composition of the Sejmik.

2. The application referred to in paragraph 2. 1, requires the written form and reasons for the reason for the appeal and is subject to an opinion by the review board.

3. The reference of the Marshal of the voivodship shall take place by a majority of at least 3/5 votes of the statutory composition of the seismic, in secret ballot. The vote on the appeal of the state purse shall be carried out after hearing the opinion of the review committee at the next session after the one on which the request for appeal was submitted, not earlier than after 1 month from the date of filing of the application. If the application for the cancellation of the Marshal of the voivodship did not obtain the required majority of votes, a subsequent request for appeal may be requested not earlier than after 6 months from the previous vote.

4. The reference of the Marshal of the voivodship or the resignation by him shall be, respectively, equivalent to the cancellation of the entire board of the voivodship or the submission of the resignation of the entire administrative board of

5. The Sejmik of the voivodship may upon a reasoned request of the Marshal of the Voivodeship shall revoke the individual members of the Management Board by simple majority of votes in the presence of at least half of the statutory composition of the seismic, in secret ballot.

Article 38. [ submission of resignation by the Marshal of the voivodship] 1. In the event of the submission of the resignation by the Marshal of the voivodship, the party shall be adopted

2. In the event of the resignation of the Marshal of the Voivodship Sejmik, the voivodship shall decide to accept the resignation of the entire Board.

3. The failure to adopt the resolution referred to in paragraph 3. 2, shall be tantamount to the adoption of the resignation on the last day of the month in which the session of the state's purse seismic session referred to in the mouth was held. 2.

Article 39. [ Selection of new management board of the voivodship or its members 1. In the case of cancellation or resignation of the entire board of the Sejmik of the voivodship shall select a new management board in the mode referred to in art. 32, respectively, within 3 months from the day of referral or from the date of acceptance of resignation. In the event of failure to choose a new board within 3 months from the date of cancellation or from the date of acceptance of the resignation, the provisions of Article 33 shall apply mutatis mutandis.

2. In the case of cancellation of a member of the management board not being the chairman, the Sejmik of the voivodship shall select a new member of the Management Board within 1 month from the day of

3. The Board's Board of Appeal or its individual members shall remain in office until the election of the new Board or individual members of the Board. The state's seismist may release a member of the board from that obligation.

4. Paragraph Recipe The first sentence shall apply mutatis mutandis in the case of the resignation of the whole Board.

Article 40. [ Resignation of a member of the function as a function] 1. In the case of the lodging of the resignation from membership of the Management Board by a member not of its chairman, the Sejm of the voivodship shall adopt a resolution to accept the resignation and release from the duties of a member of the Management Board by simple majority, no later than 1 month from the date of the resignation.

2. Failure to take by the Sejmik of the voivodship resolutions within the time limit referred to in paragraph. 1, shall be tantamount to the adoption of the resignation on the last day of the month in which the resolution should be taken.

3. In the case of the submission of resignation by a member of the Management Board not being the chairman of the Marshal of the voivodship shall be required, at the latest within 1 month from the date of acceptance of the resignation or expiry of the period referred to in paragraph. 2, submit a new candidature to the board member's seismic.

Article 41. [ Provincial Management Tasks] 1. The Board of the voivodship performs tasks belonging to the self-government of the voivodship, not reserved to the Sejmik of the voivodship and the voivodship offices of

2. The tasks of the Board of the voivodship shall in particular:

1) the execution of the resolution of the state's purse seismic;

2) the management of the city of the voivodship, including the exercise of the rights of shares and shares held by the voivodship;

3) preparing the project and implementation of the voivodship budget;

4) preparing projects for the development strategies of the voivodship and other development strategies, spatial development plan, regional operational programmes, programmes for implementing the partnership agreement on cohesion policy and their execution;

4a) monitoring and analysing the development processes in the spatial arrangement and the development strategy of the voivodship, regional operational programmes, development programmes and programmes for the implementation of the Partnership Agreement on the cohesion policy, and the territorial contract referred to in the Act of 6 December 2006. the principles of development policy;

5) to organize cooperation with regional government structures in other countries and with international regional associations;

6) the management, coordination and control of the activities of the voivodship of the local organizational units, including the hiring and release of the managers of the voivodship of the local government units;

7) the adoption of the rules of procedure of the Marshal's Office.

3. The rules and mode of operation of the voivodship shall be determined by the statutes.

Article 42. [ Appointment of the Sejmik's term of office] After the expiry of the term of office of the Sejmik of the voivodship, the Voivodeship Management Board shall act until the day of

Article 43. [ Marshal of voivodship] 1. Marshal of the voivodship organizes the work of the Board of the voivodship and Marshal's Office, directs the current affairs of the voivodship and represents the voivodship outside

2. In cases of imminent delay connected with a direct threat of public interest, endangering directly health and life, and in cases likely to cause significant material damage, the Marshal of the voivodship shall take the necessary actions belonging to the property of the voivodship The actions taken in this mode require the presentation to be approved at the nearest meeting of the voivodship board.

3. Marshal of the voivodship is the head of the Marshal's Office, the official head of the employees of this office and the managers of the voivodship of the local government units.

Article 44. [ Voivodship Treasurer] The Sejmik of the voivodship appoints and dismisses the treasury of the voivodship (the main accounting officer's budget), upon the request of the Marshal of the voivodship, by an absolute majority of votes, in the presence of at least half of the statutory composition of the seismic, in a secret ballot.

2. The treasury of the voivodship participates in the works and the deliberations of the voivodship board and the state's seiner with an advisory vote.

Article 45. [ Office of the Marshal and Local Authorities of the Organizational Unit] 1. The Board of Governors shall perform the tasks of the voivodship with the assistance of the Marshal's Office and the Voivodship Local Organizational Units or the Voivodship Legal

2. The legal status of the employees of the local government is determined by a separate law.

Article 46. [ Decisions in individual cases] 1. Decisions in individual cases in the scope of public administration shall be issued by the Marshal of the voivodship, if the special provisions do not provide otherwise.

2. Marshal of the voivodship may authorize deputy marshals, other members of the administrative board of the voivodship, employees of the Marshal's Office and the managers of the voivodship of local business units to issue on his behalf the decisions referred to in in paragraph 1.

2a. Decisions issued by the Management Board of the voivodship in matters of public administration are signed by the Marshal. The decision shall mention the names of the members of the Management Board who took part in the decision.

3. From the decisions referred to in paragraph. 1, serves the appeal to the local government of appeal, and in cases entrusted on the basis of the agreement with the wojewater-to the competent minister.

4. (repealed).

Chapter 4

Property of voivodship

Article 47. [ Voivodship Property] 1. The state of the voivodship is the property and other property rights acquired by the voivodship or other voivodship legal persons.

2. Provincial legal persons, apart from the voivodship, are self-government organizational units, which laws grant outright such status, and those legal persons, which can be created on the basis of separate laws exclusively by the voivodship.

3. The voivodship is in a civil-law relationship a subject of rights and obligations, which concern the property of the voivodship not belonging to other voivodship legal persons.

Article 48. [ Acquisition of property of the voivodship] The acquisition of the property of the voivodship shall take place on the basis of the rules laid down in the Civil Code and other statutes, as well as by transfer of property of the State Treasury and property of the State Treasury which is in the rule of state legal persons under the conditions specified in this Act.

Article 49. [ Property of State Treasury] 1. Transfer of the voivodship of the State Treasury and property of the State Treasury which is in the rule of state legal persons, serving the tasks of the voivodship, in particular those referred to in art. 14, shall take place on the basis of an administrative decision of the authority of the office, subject to Article 4 (1) of the EC 50.

2. The review body of the decision referred to in paragraph 2. 1, is the Minister responsible for the Treasury.

3. The acquisition of property shall be free of charge and shall take place on the day on which the decision on its transfer became final.

Article 50. [ Application for the transfer of property of the State Treasury] 1. The transfer of the property of the State Treasury and the property of the State Treasury, which is in the state of the state of the state legal persons, for the performance of economic tasks exceeding the scope of the public service, may take place at the request of the Management Board voivodship, if the property is intended to implement the development strategy of the voivodship and regional operational programmes, excluding the property intended for the settlement of reprivatisation claims and the implementation of the program of universal expropriation.

2. The transfer of the property specified in the mouth. 1 shall be free of charge, in the mode appropriate for the transfer of the acquired rights, with the transfer of ownership and other rights to the matter by the final decision of the Minister responsible for the Treasury.

3. Refusal of transfer of property referred to in paragraph. 1, shall be followed by the final decision of the Minister responsible for the Treasury.

Article 51. [ Property charges] 1. Acquisition of the transferred property of the State Treasury and the property of the State Treasury which is in the rule of state legal persons is followed along with the charges which should be disclosed in the decision of the transfer.

2. The disclosure of the charges shall not affect the rights of third parties.

3. The provisions of the paragraph. 1 and 2 shall not apply to the obligations of the State Treasury and the state legal persons, arising from the activities of the authorities and institutions of the rulers transferred, arising before the date of its acquisition by the voivodship.

Article 52. [ Exempt from taxes and charges] The transfer of the property of the State Treasury and the property of the State Treasury, which is in the state of the state legal persons, is free of taxes and charges.

Article 53. [ Application of K. p.a regulations] The provisions of the Administrative Procedure Code shall apply mutatis mutandis to proceedings for the transfer of property, by decision.

Article 54. [ Entry in the perpetual book] 1. The final decision to transfer the voivodship of rights, which are or may be disclosed in the perpetual ledger shall constitute the basis of the entry in the book.

2. The procedure for the registration shall be free of charge.

Article 55. [ Accumulated Property Rights of voivodship] The property rights of the voivodship, not belonging to other voivodship legal persons, shall be executed by the voivodship's administration.

Article 56. [ Provincial Managers of Local Organizational Units] 1. The managers of the voivodship of the local bodies of non-legal entities shall act unilaterally on the basis of a power of attorney granted by the Board of Governors.

2. The consent, in the form of a resolution, the administrative board of the voivodship is required for activities exceeding the scope of the power of attorney

Article 57. [ Declarations of will on behalf of the voivodship] 1. The attestations of will on behalf of the voivodship shall be submitted to the Marshal of the voivodship together with a member of the Board of the voivodship, unless the statutes

2. The Sejmik of the voivodship may grant the Marshal the authorization to submit one-person statements of will, other than the envisaged in the statutes of the voivodship.

3. The legal action from which the monetary obligation arises requires the counterpart of the main accounting officer of the voivodship's budget or the person authorized by him to be effective.

4. The main accounting officer of the voivodship's budget, which refuses to counterattack, shall, however, make a written order of the Marshal of the voivodship, while informing the state's seismist and the regional chamber of the financial system.

5. The Board of the voivodship may authorize employees of the Marshal's Office to submit statements of will related to the conduct of the current activity of the voivodship.

Article 58. [ Uchwała concerning gratuitous disposition of the city] 1. Voivodship legal persons shall decide, within the limits of the laws, on the manner in which they exercise their property rights, except that a free regulation of the city and the disposal of:

1) real estate for general use or direct meeting of public needs,

2) subjects possessing a particular scientific, historical, cultural or natural value

-requires consent, in the form of a resolution, the Board of the voivodship.

2. The consent of the Board of the voivodship shall also require the change of the purpose of the elements of property 1 (1) and (2).

3. Resolutions of the voivodship of the voivodship referred to in paragraph 1 and 2, they are subject to supervision, referred to in Chapter 7 of the Act.

Article 59. [ Right of pre-emption] 1. In the event of a divestment by the voivodship or other voivodship of the subjects possessing special scientific, historical, cultural or natural value, the State Treasury shall have the right of pre-emption or redemption executed on the basis of specified in the Civil Code.

2. The mass acquired free of charge from the State Treasury shall be subject, in the cases specified in the paragraph. 1, to return to his/her behalf, if the authorized state body so requests the return.

Article 60. [ Exclusion of liability for commitments] The voivodship shall not be liable for the obligations of other voivodship legal persons, unless the special provision provides otherwise. Other voivodship legal entities are not responsible for the obligations of the voivodship.

Chapter 5

Finance Self-Government

Article 61. [ Budgetary Resolution] The budgetary resolution is the basis of the autonomous financial economy of the voivodship.

Article 62. (repealed).

Article 63. (repealed).

Article 64. (repealed).

Article 65. (repealed).

Article 66. (repealed).

Article 67. [ Financial appropriations for the implementation of the tasks transferred] 1. (repealed).

2. (repealed).

3. The transfer of new tasks by the voivodship requires the necessary financial resources to be provided for their implementation in the form of an increase in revenue.

Article 68. (repealed).

Article 69. (repealed).

Article 70. [ Provincial rights of the voivodship in the budget area 1. The provincial budget is responsible for the proper implementation of the voivodship budget.

2. The provincial management shall have the exclusive right:

1) the hauling of commitments to cover the amounts of expenditure fixed in the budget resolution, within the framework of the authorisations granted by the state's purse seismist;

2) the issuing of securities, within the framework of the authorisations granted by the state's purse seismist;

3) making budget expenditure;

4) making proposals for changes in the state budget;

5) disposing of the reserves of the voivodship budget;

6) to block budget appropriations, in cases specified by the Act.

Article 71. (repealed).

Article 72. [ Avarity of economy in financial resources] The economy of the financial resources at the disposal of the voivodship is overt. The disclosure requirement shall be met, inter alia, by:

1) preserving the transparency of the budgetary debate;

2) publication of the budget resolution and reports on implementation of the voivodship budget;

3) presentation of the full list of amounts of customs subsidies granted from the voivodship budget;

4) (repealed).

Article 73. (repealed).

Article 74. [ Disposition of monetary measures of the voivodship] The cash disposition of the voivodship is separate from its cash-in.

Chapter 6

Foreign cooperation

Article 75. [ Voivodship's foreign cooperation priorities] The Sejmik of the voivodship enacted "Priority of foreign cooperation of the voivodship", specifying:

1) the main objectives of foreign cooperation;

2. the geographical priorities for future cooperation;

3) the intention to join the international regional associations.

Article 76. [ Participation in international activities] 1. The cooperation of the voivodship with the regional communities of other states shall be carried out in accordance with the internal law, foreign policy of the state and its international obligations, within the limits of tasks and competences of the voivodship.

2. The voivodship shall participate in the activities of international regional institutions and shall be represented in them under the rules laid down in the agreement concluded by the nationwide organisations of local self-government entities.

3. The rules for the accession of the voivodship to the international associations of local and regional communities set out separate regulations.

Article 77. [ Role of Minister for Foreign Affairs] 1. "Priorities of foreign cooperation of the voivodship" may be enacted and foreign initiatives of the voivodship, including in particular projects of regional cooperation agreements, may be taken with the consent of the minister competent for foreign affairs.

2. Resolutions referred to in paragraph 2. 1, they shall be taken by an absolute majority of the statutory composition of the state's purse seismic.

3. The Uchwała and the concluded regional cooperation agreements referred to in paragraph 3. 1, shall be sent by the Marshal of the voivodship to the Minister responsible for Foreign Affairs and the Minister responsible for the affairs of the public administration.

Chapter 7

Supervision of the activity of the province's self-government

Article 78. [ Supervisory authorities] 1. Supervision of the activity of the self-government of the voivodship shall be exercised by the President of the Council of Ministers and the voivodship, and in the area of financial matters-regional chamber

2. The supervisory authorities may enter into the activities of the voivodship only in the cases specified by statutes.

Article 79. [ Criterion of legality] The supervision of the execution of the tasks of the voivodship shall be exercised on the basis of the criterion of legality.

Article 80. [ Rights of supervisors] The supervisory authorities shall have the right to request information and data relating to the organisation and functioning of the voivodship necessary for the exercise of their supervisory powers.

Art. 80a. [ Appointment date] 1. If the law relying on the validity of the decision of the authority of the province of the voivodship from its approval, arrangement or opinion by another body, the seizure of the position by that authority should take place no later than within 14 days from the date of service the decision or project thereof, subject to the paragraph. 2.

2. The term referred to in paragraph 1, shall be 30 days, if the approval, arrangement or opinion is required from the body of the local self-government entity.

3. If the body referred to in paragraph 1 and 2, it will not take a position in the case, the resolution shall be deemed to have been adopted in the wording submitted by the voivodship, with the expiry of the term specified in the paragraph. 1 or 2.

4. To approve, reconciliate or give an opinion by the authorities of the voivodship of the resolutions of other bodies of the provisions of the paragraph 1-3 shall apply mutatis mutandis.

Article 81. [ Control of resolutions by water supply] The Marshal of the voivodship presents the voivodship of the resolution of the state's purse and the resolution of the administrative board of the voivodship under the supervision within 7 days from the day of their taking. Within the same period, the Marshal of the voivodship shall present a resolution falling within the scope of the supervision of the Chamber of the Regional Chamber of Auditors.

Article 82. [ Invalid Resolution] 1. The abusive authority of the province's self-government against the law is invalid. The declaration of invalidity in whole or in part of the decision of the supervisory authority shall be no longer than 30 days from the date on which the resolution is served in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 4. 81.

2. The supervisory authority, when initiating proceedings for the annulment of a resolution or in the course of that proceedings, may suspend its execution.

3. The provision of the paragraph. 2 shall not apply to the resolution of appeals to the administrative court.

(4) The supervisory resolution should include factual and legal justification and an instruction on the admissibility of bringing a complaint to the administrative court.

5. In the event of an insignificant breach of the law, the supervisory authority shall not annul the resolution by limiting itself to the indication that the resolution has been issued in violation of the law.

6. The provisions of the Code of Administrative Procedure shall apply accordingly.

Article 82a. [ Pause execution of resolution] 1. The declaration by the authority of the invalidity of the resolution of the authority of the self-government of the voivodship shall withhold its execution by virtue of the law in the area covered by the annulment, on the day of service of the supervisory resolution.

2. The provision of the paragraph. 1 shall not apply to the resolution of appeals to the administrative court.

Article 82b. [ Complaint for supervisory resolution] In the case of the submission by the authority of the province of the voivodship of the complaint to the supervisory resolution, the administrative court shall appoint a trial no later than within 30 days from the date of receipt of the complaint to the court.

Art. 82c. [ Appeal of the resolution to the administrative court] 1. After the expiry of the period indicated in Art. 82 ust. 1, the supervisory authority may not, in its own scope, annul the resolution of the authority of the provincial government. In this case, the supervisory authority may challenge the resolution of the administrative court.

2. In the cases referred to in paragraph. 1, the issue of the order on cessation of execution of the resolution shall be held by the court.

Article 83. [ Term for annulment of a resolution] 1. The resolution of the resolution of the authority of the provincial government shall not be declared after one year from the date of its taking, unless the waiver of the obligation to submit a resolution within the period specified in Art. 81, or if the resolution is an act of local law.

2. If no invalidity of the resolution has been declared due to the expiry of the period specified in the paragraph. 1, and there are grounds for annulment, the administrative court adjudicates the illegality of the resolution. Such a resolution shall cease to have effect on the date of the decision on its illegality. The provisions of the Code of Administrative Procedure as to the effects of such a decision shall apply accordingly.

Article 84. [ Infringement by the Sejmik of the Constitution or statutes] 1. In the event of repeated violations by the Sejmik of the Voivodship of the Constitution or statutes, the Sejm, at the request of the President of the Council of Ministers, may by way of resolution terminate the Sejm of the voivodship. The solution of the voivodship's seismic is equivalent to the solution of all authorities of the voivodship. At the request of the Minister responsible for public administration, the President of the Council of Ministers shall designate the person who, until the election of the new authorities of the voivodship, shall act as those bodies.

2. If the repeated violations of the Constitution or the laws of the voivodship are allowed, the voivodship calls the Sejmik of the voivodship to take the necessary measures, and if the summons do not take effect-through the minister competent for affairs public administration-request the President of the Council of Ministers to dissolve the administrative board of the voivodship. In case of termination of the Management Board, until the selection of the new Management Board, the functions of the Management Board shall be the person appointed by the Prime Minister

Article 85. [ Suspension of the authorities of the voivodship] 1. In the event of a non-working rapid improvement and protracted lack of efficiency in the performance of public tasks by the authorities of the voivodship, the President of the Council of Ministers, at the request of the minister competent for public administration, may suspend authorities of the self-government of the voivodship and establish a commission management board for a period of up to 2 years, however no longer than for the selection of the voivodship board by the seismik of the new term of office

2. The establishment of the Board of the Board may take place after the prior presentation of the charges to the authorities of the voivodship authorities and to invite them to immediately submit a programme to improve the situation of the voivodship.

3. The Government Commissioner shall be appointed by the President of the Council of Ministers at the request of the wojewater, notified through the Minister responsible for the affairs of the public administration.

4. The governmental commissioner takes over the tasks and competences of the authorities of the voivodship with the day of appointment.

Article 86. [ Challenge of supervisory decisions] 1. Resolutions of the supervisory authority concerning the voivodship, including the resolutions referred to in art. 84 (1) 2 and Art. 85 (1) 1, as well as the position taken in accordance with art mode. 80a, are subject to appeal to the administrative court due to illegality within 30 days from the date of their service.

2. The submission of the complaint is the authorized voivodship. The basis for the complaint is the resolution of the state's purse seismic.

2a. To submit a complaint against the resolution of the supervisory body, concerning the resolution of the state's seismist, delivered after the expiry of the term of office of the Sejm, shall be entitled to the Sejmik of the voivodship of the next term of office within 30 days from the day of election of the president of the seismic

3. A voivodeship whose legal interest, entitlement or competence has been infringed shall be entitled to lodge a complaint. A complaint shall be based on the decision of the body which adopted the resolution or of which it relates to the decision of the supervisory authority.

4. Supervisory appeals shall become final after the expiry of the period prescribed for the lodging of the application or on the date of dismissal of the application or rejection of the application by the court of first place.

Art. 86a. [ Call for a resolution] 1. [ 7] If the competent authority of the voivodship, contrary to the obligation resulting from the provisions of Article 383 § 2 and 6 of the Act referred to in art. 33 (1) 7, and Art. 5 par. 2, 3 and 5 of the Act of 21 August 1997. to limit the conduct of business activities by persons performing public functions, in so far as the mandate of the councillor has expired, the dismissals of the position or termination of the employment contract with the member of the Board of Directors, the secretary of the voivodship, the voivodship's treasurer, the manager of the voivodship of the local government and the managing person or a member of the managing body of the voivodship legal person, does not take a resolution, does not cancel the position or not resolves employment contracts, wojewoda calls on the voivodship's authority to take a resolution in time limit of 30 days.

1a. Paragraph Recipe 1 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the obligations referred to in Article 3. 6a of the Act of 21 November 2008. o-o-o-o-o- U. No. 223, item. 1458, as late. zm.).

2. In the event of an unsuccessfully expiry of the period referred to in paragraph. 1, wojewoda, after notification to the Minister responsible for public administration, issues a replacement order.

3. [ 8] Article Recipe 86 shall apply mutatis mutandis, except that the person whose legal interest or the authority concerns a replacement is entitled to lodge a complaint.

Article 87. [ Release of court proceedings from charges] Legal proceedings referred to in Article 82 and 86, they are free of court fees.

Article 88. [ Exemption of application of the law] The provisions of this Chapter shall not apply to individual decisions in matters of public administration, issued by the authorities of the self-government of the voivodship. Instance control in this regard, and non-instance supervision and control by the courts, shall be laid down in separate provisions.

Art. 88a. [ Exemption of application of the law] In the cases referred to in this Chapter, the provisions of Article 4 shall not apply. 52 § 3 and 4 of the Act of 30 August 2002. -Right of proceedings before administrative courts (Dz. U. 2012 r. items 270, 1101 and 1529).

Chapter 8

Acts of local law established by the self-government of the voivodship

Article 89. [ Acts of local law] 1. On the basis of this Law and on the basis of the authorisations granted in other statutes and within their borders the purse of the voivodship constitutes the acts of local law in force in the area of the voivodship or its part.

2. The Chairman of the Sejmik of the voivodship signs the acts of local law, adopted by the state's seismik, immediately after their resolution and directs them for publication in the voivodship journal.

3. Publications in the voivodship journal are also subject to the resolution of the voivodship budget and the report on implementation of the voivodship budget.

4. The rules and procedure for the publication of local laws and the issue of the voivodship of the official journal shall be determined by the Act of 20 July 2000. about the announcement of normative acts and certain other legal acts (Dz. U. of 2011 r. Nr 197, pos. 1172 and No. 232, pos. 1378).

5. (repealed).

Article 90. [ Appeal to the provision to the administrative court] 1. Anyone whose legal interest or entitlement has been infringed by a provision of a local law act, issued in a public administration case, may-after an unsuccessfully summoned by the authority of the self-government of the voivodship which issued the provision, to be removed breaches-appeals the rule to the administrative court.

2. (repealed).

3. The provision of the paragraph. 1 shall not apply if the case in the case has already been adjudicated by an administrative court and the action has been dismissed.

4. In the case of a call for the removal of an infringement, the provisions on the dates for dealing with cases in administrative proceedings shall apply.

Article 91. [ Application of provisions of the Act] 1. Rules of Art. 90 shall apply mutatis mutandis where the authority of the self-government of the voivodship does not perform the acts prescribed by the law or, by the legal or factual action taken, violates the rights of third parties.

2. In the cases referred to in paragraph. 1, the administrative court may order the supervisory authority to carry out the necessary activities for the benefit of the complainant.

Chapter 9

Final provision

Article 92. [ Entry into force] The Act shall enter into force within the period and under the rules laid down in a separate law.

[ 1] Article 11 (1) 1e as set out by the Article. 6 point 1 lit. c) of the Act of 24 January 2014. to amend the Act on the Rules of Development of Development Policy and some other laws (Journal of Laws pos. 379). The amendment came into force on 25 September 2014.

[ 2] On the basis of art. 6 of the Act of 5 September 2008. to amend the Act on Local Government and to amend certain other laws (Journal of Laws No. 180, item. 1111) art. 27c par. 5a shall apply to the term of office following the term of office of which the Law entered into force (the Act entered into force on 25 October 2008).

[ 3] On the basis of art. 6 of the Act of 5 September 2008. to amend the Act on Local Government and to amend certain other laws (Journal of Laws No. 180, item. 1111) art. 27e shall apply to the term of office following the term of office of which the Law entered into force (the Act entered into force on 25 October 2008).

[ 4] On the basis of art. 6 of the Act of 5 September 2008. to amend the Act on Local Government and to amend certain other laws (Journal of Laws No. 180, item. 1111) art. 27f ust. 1 shall apply to the term of office following the term of office of which the Law entered into force (the Act entered into force on 25 October 2008).

[ 5] On the basis of art. 6 of the Act of 5 September 2008. to amend the Act on Local Government and to amend certain other laws (Journal of Laws No. 180, item. 1111) art. 27f ust. 2 shall apply to the term of office following the term of office of which the Law entered into force (the Act entered into force on 25 October 2008).

[ 6] On the basis of art. 6 of the Act of 5 September 2008. to amend the Act on Local Government and to amend certain other laws (Journal of Laws No. 180, item. 1111) art. 27g shall apply to the term of office following the term of office of which the Law entered into force (the Act entered into force on 25 October 2008).

[ 7] On the basis of art. 5 of the Act of 31 August 2011. amending the Act-Electoral Code and some other laws (Journal of Laws No. 217, item. 1281) art. 86a ust. 1 shall apply to the term of office of bodies constituting the units of local government and the term of office of the voters, following the term of office, during which this Act entered into force (the Act entered into force on 27 October 2011).

[ 8] On the basis of art. 6 of the Act of 5 September 2008. to amend the Act on Local Government and to amend certain other laws (Journal of Laws No. 180, item. 1111) art. 86a ust. 3 shall apply to the term of office following the term of office of which the Law entered into force (the Act entered into force on 25 October 2008).