Association of municipalities (Austria)

A community association is in Austria an alliance of political communities for joint procurement of individual tasks.

Legal basis

The Austrian Federal Constitution stipulates that municipalities can "join forces to take on individual tasks within their own sphere of activity [...] by agreement to form municipal associations" ( Art. 116a, Paragraph 1 B-VG ). More detailed regulations on the municipal associations can be found partly in the municipal codes of the federal states , partly in their own laws:

Burgenland Association of Municipalities Act 1987
Carinthian General Municipality Code (K-AGO) §§ 83–85
Nope. Municipal Association Act
Oö. Association of Municipalities Act 1988
Salzburg Association of Municipalities Act 1986
Styrian Municipal Association Organization Act (GVOG 1997), according to § 38 Municipal Associations , Styrian Municipal Code 1967 (GemO)

Tyrolean Municipal Code 2001 - TGO §§ 129–142

Vorarlberg Municipal Law §§ 93–96

Municipal associations have legal personality , in certain matters they are on an equal footing with regional authorities . As a rule, the same rules apply to their employees as apply to municipal employees.

Organs of the community associations are typically the general assembly, the board of directors and the chairman. The general assembly consists of representatives of the municipalities belonging to the association and is the highest body of the municipality association. The board of directors and chairman manage the day-to-day business of the community association.

tasks

Tasks in community competence , which are organized on the basis of community associations, include construction , municipal road construction , maintenance of elementary , middle , special and polytechnical schools , registration and matriculation systems (registry office), water supply and sewage disposal , waste management and the like.

In addition, local government associations can not assume representative on site and tasks in competence of the Federation or of the countries are, for example, the local implementation of environmental agendas . The tourist regions are also often organized as community associations.

It is also possible to form associations in cross-border cooperation, for example within the framework of the European INTERREG program and the EuRegios ( regional policy of the European Union ).

example

An example of how communities organize themselves in associations based on the Lienz district (East Tyrol) with 33 communities:

Waste Management Association East Tyrol : All East Tyrolean municipalities organize joint disposal and operate the Lavant residual waste dump

Registry office and citizenship Association Lienz: 16 municipalities handle their local reporting functions in close cooperation on the civil registry Lienz from

Lienzer Talboden wastewater association: 15 member communities operate a joint sewage treatment plant ( Lienzer Talboden Dölsach regional sewage treatment plant )

Planning Association 36 “Lienz and Surroundings”: Joint regional planning of 15 communities around the district capital

A. ö. District Hospital Lienz : Common hospital for all East Tyrolean communities

Residential and nursing homes in East Tyrol : Support organization for municipal care for the elderly and life support with three locations in the region

Landesmusikschule Lienzer Talboden: Common music school in the East Tyrolean core area

In this area embedded in the Alpine core zones with its specific problems in terms of proximity to traffic and infrastructure, it can be seen how communities can organize their tasks more effectively using the tools of the community associations.

literature

Hans Neuhofer: Municipal law: Organization and tasks of the municipalities in Austria . 2nd Edition. Springer's series of legal manuals . Springer, 1998, ISBN 978-3-211-82929-5 .

Individual evidence

^ Neuhofer: Municipal law . 1998, Municipal Association Laws , p. 51 f .

↑ Law of December 17, 1986 on the formation and organization of municipal associations (Bgld. Municipal Association Act). StF : LGBl. No. 20/1987 (XIV. Gp. RV 223 AB 225).

↑ Carinthian General Municipal Code - K-AGO . StF: LGBl No. 66/1998 (WV), Section 17: Community associations ; Ordinance of the state government of February 16, 1988 on the organization of municipal associations according to federal law ( federal municipal association organization regulations ). StF: LGBl No. 7/1988.

↑ Nope. Municipal Association Act. 1600-0 LGBl. 193/78 (WL).

↑ Law of July 1, 1988 on municipal associations (Upper Austrian Municipal Association Act). StF: LGBl. No. 51/1988.

↑ Law of October 22, 1986 on associations of municipalities in the state of Salzburg (Salzburg Association of Municipalities Act) StF: LGBl. No. 105/1986.

↑ Law of July 1, 1997, with which the Styrian Municipal Association Organization Act (GVOG 1997) is passed StF: LGBl. No. 66/1997.

↑ Law of June 14, 1967, with which a municipal code is enacted for the municipalities of the State of Styria with the exception of cities with their own statute (Styrian Municipal Code 1967 - GemO) . V. Section Administrative communities, agreements under public law, municipal associations and small regions (online, ris.bka ).

↑ Law of March 21, 2001 on the regulation of the municipal system in Tyrol (Tyrolean municipal code 2001 - TGO). LGBl. No. 36/2001, Part II The municipal associations .