What is Act No. 69 / 1967 Coll.?

Act No. 69 / 1967 Coll., on National Committees — National Committees Act.

When it became Act No. 69 / 1967 Coll. effectiveness?

Act No. 69 / 1967 Coll. became effective 01.01.1968.

Is Act No. 69 / 1967 Coll. still valid?

Yes, Act No. 69 / 1967 Coll. is still valid and effective.

Act No. 69 / 1967 Coll. - National Committees Act

69

THE LAW

of 29 June 1967

on national committees

The National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic decided on this law:

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STABILITY OF NATIONAL SELECTIONS IN THE STATE AND COMPANY

Oddíl 1

Basic provisions

§ 1

(1) National Committees are bodies of socialist state power and administration in the regions, districts and municipalities. In their activities, under the leadership of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, they consolidate the socialist social establishment, governed by the Constitution, other laws and regulations.

(2) The national committees, as representative bodies of the working people, are composed of Members elected on the basis of universal, equal and direct voting rights by secret ballot.

(3) Members are controlled by the people, accountable to them, and can be withdrawn from the decision of their constituents.

§ 2

National committees ensure the comprehensive economic and social development of their territorial districts. In order to meet citizens' material and cultural needs, state enterprises are set up, run by their state economic organisations, establish and manage budgetary and contribution organisations and facilities (hereinafter referred to as "organisations established, managed or managed by the National Committee '). As state authorities of a self-governing nature, they associate in their work the satisfaction of society's needs and interests in their territorial districts, in particular the needs of urban and municipal development, and bring social, local, group and personal interests into line. It protects the rights, legitimate interests of citizens and organisations and leads them to comply with the laws and respect for the rights of fellow citizens. They are involved in the protection of the socialist economic system, the socialist order in society and the consolidation of the defence of the Republic.

§ 3

(1) National committees shall carry out all their activities in conjunction with citizens, with their active participation and under their constant control. They create the preconditions for the direct participation of citizens in the performance of their tasks and attract citizens to deal with them and implement them. They involve citizens to the widest extent in government.

(2) The national committees continuously examine the interests of citizens, their needs and views, consult them on proposals for serious measures, address their comments and ideas and familiarise them with the results of their work and lay down accounts for their activities.

§ 4

(1) The National Committees carry out their tasks in cooperation with the National Front bodies and its associations, in particular the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement, the Czech Union of Women, the Socialist Youth Union and other social organisations.

(2) Working with the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement, the national committees aim to prepare and implement important measures affecting workers' interests and require opinions from its institutions. They also cooperate with single agricultural cooperatives.

(3) The National Committees deal with the ideas of organisations associated in the National Front. They shall discuss with the National Front authorities projects concerning the development of their territorial districts and shall submit to the National Front authorities and to the organisations in the National Front joint proposals for cooperation on the creation, implementation and control of the National Front electoral programmes.

§ 5

(1) National Committees are responsible for the exercise of state administration in their territorial districts. The law can entrust them with the performance of government in the territorial districts of other national committees.

(2) Other territorial authorities or organisations may only be entrusted with the exercise of public administration by law.

§ 6

(1) The national committees shall cooperate with other national authorities in their territorial districts to achieve common objectives. Cooperation shall focus in particular on the universal consolidation of socialist legality and state discipline, the prevention of crime, the strengthening of the defence of the Republic, the implementation of the Family Act and the universal protection of civil rights.

(2) The courts, prosecutors and departments of the National Security Corps shall inform the national committees of the state of socialist legality and the protection of public order in their territorial districts.

(3) National authorities other than those referred to in paragraph 2 which operate in the territorial district of the National Committee shall, at the request of the National Committee, report to it on their activities affecting the interests and needs of citizens. The National Committee shall draw their attention to the deficiencies it finds and may require them to implement measures to address the deficiencies. The national authorities shall inform the national committee of the measures they have taken within the time limit set by it.

(4) National committees shall be entitled to impose public security tasks in the framework of their respective responsibilities in the security of local public order matters through the competent chiefs. Public security services are only accountable and subordinate to senior chiefs in matters of service.

(5) National committees in cities and municipalities may, under the conditions laid down by the Government, set up inspections of the public order of national committees to ensure local public order matters within their competence. The staff of these inspections shall supervise compliance with the rules on the protection of public policy, draw the attention of citizens and organisations to the deficiencies identified and shall take measures to eliminate them. They shall be entitled to require the citizens to provide the necessary explanations to clarify the facts necessary to establish the offence and impose fines in block proceedings. They can only show the citizen if they do not prove their identity and the matter cannot be dealt with on the spot in the block proceedings. The Government shall, by regulation, lay down in more detail the tasks of inspections of the public order of national committees and the rights and obligations of their staff.

§ 6a

(1) National Committees may, by contract with other national committees, national, cooperative, social and other socialist organisations, pool resources or activities to carry out their joint tasks more effectively and economically ("pooling and activities").

(2) National committees may propose and coordinate the pooling of the funds and activities of socialist organisations, provided that such pooling is effective and requires a collective interest.

§ 7

(1) For organisations which have not been set up, managed or managed by the National Committee, the National Committee shall exercise state administration in its territorial district. The specific provisions governing the various sections of the administration shall specify in which cases these organisations must follow the measures of the national committees. The national committees shall, to the extent they are entrusted with their competence, monitor how such organisations comply with the obligations imposed on them by specific provisions governing individual sections of government.

(2) The national committees coordinate and control the activities of organisations which have not been set up, managed or managed by the national committee in respect of internal trade and the provision of other services for the population, housing construction and maintenance of residential property, the creation and protection of the environment, racing and the development of culture, physical education, sport and recreation. Paragraph 6 (3) of the second and third sentences shall apply mutatis mutandis.

(3) Organisations which have not been established, managed or managed by the National Committee are involved in ensuring the comprehensive economic and social development of the national committees' territorial districts. They shall cooperate with the national committees and, in cases provided for in specific provisions, submit to them, for a binding opinion, evidence of the investments to be made and other important measures needed by the national committees to ensure the overall development of the region, district, town and municipality.

(4) The national committees shall define the organisations which have not been established, managed or managed by the national committee, their contribution to ensuring the comprehensive economic and social development of their territorial area and to creating and protecting the environment in the manner and to the extent laid down by specific laws, and shall check how such organisations fulfil their obligations to ensure the needs of the comprehensive economic and social development of the territorial areas of their national committees and the obligations to the budgets of national committees.

(5) The National Committees shall, as a matter of initiative, draw the attention of organisations which have not been established, managed or managed by the National Committee to shortcomings in the use of their resources and require them to comment on these warnings.

Oddíl 2

Levels and types of national committees

§ 8

The municipalities and cities include local and urban national committees, district national committees and regional national committees.

§ 9

(1) In a municipality designated by the Regional National Committee on a proposal from the Regional National Committee as a centre municipality (hereinafter referred to as the Centre Municipality), the local national committee shall operate with extended scope.

(2) With the consent of citizens, a local national committee may be set up for several municipalities; the national district committee shall decide on this measure on a proposal from local national committees.

(3) The Regional National Committee may, on a proposal from the District National Committee, determine that the local national committee for several municipalities has jurisdiction as a local national committee in the central municipality.

§ 10

(1) The municipal national committees are located in the cities of the districts, and in other municipalities of a urban character, as determined by the Government on a proposal from the Regional National Committee.

(2) The municipal national committees are subdivided into categories.

(3) In the first category, urban national committees are located in the cities of the regions and urban national committees are located in other major cities with particularly developed economic, political, cultural, social and administrative activities and in major spa cities (hereinafter referred to as "urban national committees of the first category '); significant large cities, if they are not the seat of the regions, and significant spa cities will be designated by the government on a proposal from the regional national committees.

(4) In the second category, urban national committees are located in cities located in counties and urban national committees in municipalities of urban character, which are major settlement centres and are equipped with facilities and facilities for the provision of services and needs of the inhabitants of the municipalities and their catchment areas (hereinafter referred to as "urban national committees of the second category '); These municipalities shall be designated by the Regional National Committee.

(5) The third category includes municipal national committees in other municipalities of urban character.

§ 11

(1) In the cities of Brno, Ostrava and Pilsen there is the National Committee of the City of Brno, the National Committee of the City of Ostrava and the National Committee of the City of Pilsen (the "National Committees of the cities of Brno, Ostrava and Pilsen"). These national committees shall be managed by the relevant Regional National Committee.

(2) The territory of the cities of Brno, Ostrava and Plzeň is divided into the urban districts in which the district national committees operate, which are managed by the national committee of the city. It is for the national committee of the city to establish or abolish the urban district or to change its territory after the district national committees have been expressed and discussed with the regional national committee, taking into account the needs of citizens in the city.

(3) The cities of Brno, Ostrava and Plzeň may be joined by the surrounding municipalities forming the suburban area by a resolution of the Regional National Committee following the prior agreement of the National Committee of the City, the National Committees in the municipalities concerned and the respective Regional National Committee.

(4) In the cities of Brno, Ostrava and Pilsen, local national committees may operate in the urban areas with the approval of the National Committee of the City, which are managed by it.

§ 12

In the capital of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic is the National Committee of the City of Prague and the District National Committees. The National Committee of the City of Prague is governed directly by the government. The Act provides for a specific regulation of the scope and organisational construction of the National Committee of the City of Prague and the District National Committees.

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§ 13

The number of Members shall be determined by the national committee, having regard to the population, the size of its constituency, the scope of its competence and the national committee being a working group. In so doing, the number of Members shall be such that:

(a) the local national committee had at least:

9 poslanců v obcích	do 300 obyvatel,
11 poslanců v obcích	do 600 obyvatel,
17 poslanců v obcích	do 1 500 obyvatel,
25 poslanců v obcích	do 5 000 obyvatel,
40 poslanců v obcích	nad 5 000 obyvatel;

(b) the local national committee in the centre municipality or the municipal national committee had at least:

25 poslanců v obcích	do 1 500 obyvatel,
30 poslanců v obcích	do 2 500 obyvatel,
35 poslanců v obcích	do 5 000 obyvatel,
50 poslanců v obcích	do 10 000 obyvatel,
60 poslanců v obcích	do 20 000 obyvatel,
80 poslanců v obcích	do 50 000 obyvatel,
85 poslanců v obcích	nad 50 000 obyvatel;

(c) the district national committee had at least:

60 poslanců v okresech	do 80 000 obyvatel,
80 poslanců v okresech	s větším počtem obyvatel;

(d) the Regional National Committee had at least 80 Members;

(e) the National Committee of Brno had at least 100,

the National Committee of the City of Ostrava at least 100; and

National Committee of the City of Pilsen at least 80 Members

(f) the district national committees in Brno, Ostrava and Pilsen had at least:

30 poslanců v obvodech	do 5 000 obyvatel,
40 poslanců v obvodech	do 10 000 obyvatel,
60 poslanců v obvodech	do 20 000 obyvatel,
80 poslanců v obvodech	nad 20 000 obyvatel.

§ 14

(1) The Member of the National Committee shall participate in the deliberations and decisions of the National Committee, in particular in the meetings of the National Committee and its bodies for which he has been elected. It carefully examines the interests of its constituents, their needs and opinions and maintains a constant link with them.

(2) The Member shall, at least once a year, account for the electorate's activities.

§ 15

(1) The Member of the National Committee is hereby authorised to:

(a) submit proposals to the national committee and its commissions and initiatives to its board and trade unions;

(b) ask the advice, its individual members and the chairmen of the commissions, including outside the meetings of the national committee or committee; the answer to these questions must be given without delay, if this cannot happen within 30 days at the latest;

(c) to request explanations from trade unions' heads of trade unions relating to trade union activities; an explanation may also be required of senior organisations established, managed or managed by the National Committee, the explanation must be given without delay;

(d) recommend to the head of organisations set up, managed or managed by the National Committee measures to address deficiencies and, in more serious cases, contact the National Committee in order to impose appropriate corrective measures within its scope;

(e) require and request information and explanations from national bodies and organisations which have not been established, managed or maintained by the national committee;

(f) to attend with the voice of the Advisory Meeting of the Lower Level National Committee;

(g) to take part in the handling of complaints, notifications and initiatives of citizens relating to the work of the National Committee, its bodies and organisations, where appropriate, to proceed with complaints, notifications and initiatives of citizens transmitted to it to the competent authorities and organisations;

(h) request consultations with the trade unions of the national committee, the court, the prosecution, the state notaries and the economic arbitrage on matters relating to the performance of its parliamentary function.

(2) State bodies and socialist organisations are obliged to:

(a) assist Members in the performance of their duties;

(b) examine the initiatives, comments and questions of a Member and inform him of their execution within 30 days at the latest;

(c) inform Members as soon as possible of the handling of complaints, notifications and initiatives made by the citizens referred to them.

§ 16

(1) The Member of the National Committee shall in particular:

(a) actively work among voters, consult them on proposals for serious measures to be discussed by the National Committee, apply the legitimate interests of citizens in the National Committee and familiarise them with the work of the National Committee, in particular with its serious measures, with new laws, government measures and resolutions of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia;

(b) report to the electorate on its work in the National Committee, on the handling of their initiatives and comments, and inform the organisation in the National Front which proposed it as a candidate for election to the National Committee;

(c) maintain constant contact with social organisations operating in its perimeter;

(d) apply the experience and incentives of citizens in all their work;

(e) work closely with the national committees of lower grades and apply their incentives and experience in the work of the national committee.

(2) A Member of the local national committee, the district national committee and the municipal national committee are required to cooperate closely with the civil committees in their constituency and to participate in their deliberations.

§ 17

(1) A Member of the National Committee may not be shortened in the performance of his duties in respect of rights or rights arising from a work or similar relationship (member of the cooperative). The organisation of which the Member is an official shall be obliged to allow him to perform his duties; This also applies to members of national committee committees who are not Members.

(2) An employment relationship is maintained for Members who are relieved of their duties. Instead of salary (other pay for work), they will receive an appropriate remuneration from the National Committee. Other Members and members of non-Members' commissions shall be granted the necessary leave of absence with compensation for wages by an organisation for which they are in work or other similar relationship; the Government shall lay down regulations in which cases they may still receive remuneration from the National Committee for the performance of their duties. The reimbursement of the actual expenses incurred by them in connection with the performance of their duties shall be due to them under the rules applicable to workers in employment.

(3) The Member of the National Committee may, in the performance of his duties, use free of charge bulk means of transport to the extent and under the conditions laid down by the Government by the Regulation. The Government shall also lay down in more detail the provisions of the regulation on the granting of remuneration and reimbursement to Members of actual expenditure.

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SCOPE OF NATIONAL COMMITTEE

Oddíl 1

Basic provisions

§ 18

The main task of the national committees in ensuring comprehensive economic and social development is to take care of the construction of cities and municipalities, the creation and protection of the environment, the improvement of housing and services, the development of cultural and social life, the education of youth, the creation of conditions for the development of physical education, sport and recreation, the safeguarding of public order and the protection of citizens' interests. National committees shall ensure the consistent development of their territorial area, the efficient management of labour, the efficiency of investment construction, the economical use of natural, financial and material resources and the respect of the cost-effectiveness of spending.

§ 19

The national committees shall, in accordance with the special rules, exercise state administration, in particular on the section:

- the creation and protection of healthy living and working conditions,

- regional planning,

- spatial planning and construction rules,

- labour force,

- conservation of nature and cultural monuments,

- the protection and exploitation of mineral assets,

- agriculture,

- forestry and water management,

- energy,

- housing management and non-residential premises,

- finance and management and protection of national assets,

- supplies, trade, public and competitive catering and tourism,

- services,

- transport and road economy,

- education,

- culture and information,

- health care,

- social security,

- State defence,

- protection of public order,

- fire protection,

- general internal administration.

§ 20

(1) National Committees manage organisations and facilities in sectors (sections)

- education, in particular pre-school institutions, primary schools, secondary schools and youth schools requiring special care, educational establishments, school special-purpose establishments,

- culture, nature conservation and cultural heritage,

- social security, in particular institutions and other social security facilities,

- internal administration, in particular archives of national committees and public order inspections,

- fire protection.

(2) The national committees shall comply with generally binding legislation, resolutions of the government and the national higher-level committee, and with directives (instructions) of ministries (central government bodies) and the national higher-level committee on the establishment and dissolution of the organisations and facilities referred to in paragraph 1.

§ 21

In order to carry out its tasks, the national committees may manage organisations or facilities which provide:

- public service (urban cleaning, removal of solid household waste, administration and maintenance of public green, public lighting, supply of water from public pipelines, drainage of waste water by public sewerage, etc.),

- management and maintenance of home property,

- local construction,

- local transport services and public passenger and freight transport,

- construction, maintenance and management of roads and local roads,

- paid services (washing and cleaning, repair activities including auto-repair, custom-made, personal services, accommodation services, public catering, recreation and tourism, burial, etc.),

- local production,

- the supply of solid fuel,

- services-related business and local production,

- project, investment or engineering activities,

- the collection of secondary raw materials,

- other specialised activities (centralised food production for public and racing meals, etc.).

§ 22

(1) The management of a state economic organisation shall include the right to define the organisation of the activity, to entrust it with the necessary assets, to lay down, within the limits of generally binding legislation, the conditions for the management, to appoint and remove its manager and to define its rights, obligations and responsibilities, to monitor how the organisation ensures the satisfaction of the population and to perform its other essential tasks, to carry out control of its activities and to decide on its abolition or merger with another organisation.

(2) The main tasks of the economic organisation managed by the national committee, the principles of its management and the internal organisation shall be laid down in a statute to be issued by the national committee managing the organisation, in accordance with the principles approved by the government; the details of the internal organisation shall be laid down in the organisational rules to be laid down by the Director (s) of the organisation in accordance with the principles laid down in the Statute.

(3) The National Committee may require the organisation it manages to carry out certain urgent work necessary in the relevant general interest within the defined scope of its activities.

(4) If the activities referred to in Section 21 are provided by an organisation of budgetary or contribution or establishment of national committees, they shall be subject to the provisions of Section 20 (2).

§ 22a

If a national committee is set up to procure the activities referred to in § 21 of the State Enterprise, it shall have the rights and obligations of the founder under the special regulations. (1) Paragraphs 7 and 22 (3) shall apply mutatis mutandis; the obligation of the national committee to compensate for damage to property is governed by specific regulation.2)

§ 22b

The Director of a State Enterprise, the founder of which is the National Committee, shall be responsible for the activities of the Company and for the results of its management to the National Committee which established it and to the working group of the State Enterprise. 3) The Director (Head) of the organisation (s) set up to carry out the tasks referred to in Article 21 shall be responsible for its activities to the Board of the National Committee.

§ 23

The national committees shall monitor the activities of organisations managed or managed by the national committees of a lower degree.

§ 24

(1) National Committees may:

(a) deliver an opinion on matters of public interest and submit them to other institutions;

(b) to grant honorary citizenship to the municipality (s), national committee awards and other public recognition.

(2) If the use of a national emblem is not prescribed, the national committees of the cities of Brno, Ostrava and Pilsen, the district and local national committees in those cities and the municipal national committees, as well as organisations established, managed or managed by the national committee, may use the city emblem. Other organisations may use the city emblem only with the permission of the relevant national committee.

§ 24a

(1) National committees may issue generally binding regulations for their territorial districts to carry out their tasks.

(2) General binding regulations of the National Committee shall comply with the laws, other generally binding legislation and generally binding regulations of national higher-level committees.

(3) A general binding Regulation of the National Committee must be published. The declaration shall be made by posting a generally binding regulation of the National Committee on its official plate. This method of publication is a condition for the validity of a generally binding regulation of the National Committee. In addition, a generally binding regulation shall be published in a place of usual and generally binding regulations of national higher-level committees also on official boards of local national committees, district national committees and urban national committees.

(4) A general binding regulation of the National Committee shall take effect on the 15th day following the date of its publication, unless it provides for a later date of application. In exceptional cases where urgent general interest so requires, the national committee may provide that a general binding regulation shall take effect as soon as the date of its publication.

(5) General binding regulations of the National Committee shall be made available to everyone at the National Committee which issued them. For local national committees, district national committees and urban national committees, all generally binding regulations of national higher-level committees relating to their territorial districts shall be made available.

§ 24b

National committees shall issue confirmations and draw up reports for the needs of citizens, state bodies and organisations only if they provide for generally binding legislation.

§ 24c

(1) If, as a result of a natural disaster or any other emergency, there is a threat to economic or public life in a municipality or in a city, the local national committee in a central municipality, the municipal national committee and the municipalities in which those national committees do not operate, the district national committee may impose an obligation on socialist organisations to provide personal and material assistance in order to remedy the consequences of such an event, unless otherwise provided for by a special law. General administrative provisions shall not apply to the imposition of this obligation.

(2) The organisation which provided personal and in-kind assistance is responsible for the reimbursement of the costs effectively incurred. The right to reimbursement may be exercised by the beneficiary organisation within three months of the date on which it was established, no later than two years after its establishment; otherwise this right shall cease to exist. The right to reimbursement shall apply to the national committee which has imposed the obligation referred to in paragraph 1. The national committee shall decide on the reimbursement of costs and shall grant such reimbursement.

(3) If the organisation fails to comply with the obligation imposed pursuant to paragraph 1 within the prescribed time limit without serious reason, the national committee may impose a fine of up to 200 000 CZK. If the obligation imposed has not been fulfilled even within the new deadline, the national committee may impose a fine again. The fine may be imposed within one year of the date on which the obligation imposed has been failed.

(4) The fine is the income of the national committee that imposed it.

§ 24d

(1) An organisation which does not maintain cleanliness and order on the land used by it and thereby impair the appearance of a municipality or a city may impose a fine of up to 20 000 CZK on the local national committee and the municipal national committee.

(2) The local national committee and the municipal national committee may impose a fine of up to 50 000 CZK on an organisation which pollutes the public area or puts things on hold outside the reserved posts.

(3) A fine may be imposed unless a special law provides for another penalty for the conduct referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2. The fine may be imposed within one year of the date on which the negotiations referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 took place.

(4) The fine is the income of the national committee that imposed it.

Oddíl 2

Scope of national committees of individual grades and types

Local National Committee

§ 25

(1) The local national committee creates conditions for satisfying the legitimate needs and interests of citizens, conditions for a healthy way of life and work in the municipality, organises the construction of a municipality, takes care of its enhancement and appearance, develops cultural and social life and protects public order and citizens' rights. In all parts of its work, it creates conditions for the efficient and intensive development of agriculture.

Citation	Act No. 69 / 1967 Coll., on National Committees
Regulation Type	-
Author	-
Collection	Code of Laws

Date of Promulgation	13.07.1967
Effective from	01.01.1968
Effective until	-
Status	Valid

Act No. 69 / 1967 Coll.

National Committees Act

Contents

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Oddíl 1

§ 1

§ 2

§ 3

§ 4

§ 5

§ 6

§ 6a

§ 7

Oddíl 2

§ 8

§ 9

§ 10

§ 11

§ 12

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§ 13

§ 14

§ 15

§ 16

§ 17

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Oddíl 1

§ 18

§ 19

§ 20

§ 21

§ 22

§ 22a

§ 22b

§ 23

§ 24

§ 24a

§ 24b

§ 24c

§ 24d

Oddíl 2

§ 25

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