Joint community committee
The joint community committee after the Lower Saxony municipal code , a member of the Lower Saxon joint communities . Contrary to what the name suggests, it is not a committee of the joint municipal council , but an independent body that is independent of the joint municipal council with its own tasks and competencies vis-à-vis the joint municipal council and the joint municipality mayor . The joint community committee is formed from the center of the council. Depending on the size of the council, it consists of two to ten members and, if applicable, so-called basic mandates without voting rights, if a party or group of voters does not have a seat on a committee. The joint municipality mayor is by virtue of his office a member of the joint municipality committee and holds the chair. The councilors are not appointed for the duration of the electoral term, but can be recalled at any time against their will by the party or group that proposed them.
One of the tasks of the joint community committee is in particular to prepare the resolutions of the joint community council. A council decision without prior preparation is ineffective. Furthermore, he can reserve the right to decide on business of the day-to-day administration vis-à-vis the joint municipality mayor in individual cases and decides in such matters even if the joint municipality mayor presents them to him for decision. He also performs the tasks delegated to him by the joint municipal council for decision-making, which regularly includes, above all, the control of the administration. Finally, he has the so-called "gap competence", which means that the joint community committee is responsible if another body is not responsible.
See also
literature
- Ipsen : Lower Saxony Municipal Law , 3rd edition, June 2006, Boorberg, ISBN 3-415-03220-5
- Schwirzke / Sandfuchs: General Lower Saxony municipal law . 15th edition, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-555-20257-X
Individual evidence
- ↑ See OVG Lüneburg, judgment of October 15, 1968, OVGE 24, 487
