Management Committee
The Management Committee (VA) after the Lower Saxony municipal constitutional law (NKomVG) an organ of all Lower Saxon communities (NKomVG § 7, para. 2) operatively coupled to the other German states provided Main Committee was comparable.
Contrary to what the name suggests, the administrative committee is not a mere council committee, but a mandatory, independent body with its own tasks and competencies vis-à-vis the council and the mayor .
The Management Committee is formed from among the Council. He owns next to the mayor, the ex officio as chairman, as full voting members known. Coordinate and called. Basic mandate holders with only an advisory vote.
One of the tasks of the Administrative Committee is, in particular, to prepare the Council decisions. It also decides on contradictions in matters within the municipality's own sphere of activity and is responsible for checking the admissibility of residents ' applications and petitions for citizens . Furthermore, he can reserve the right to decide on business of the current administration vis-à-vis the mayor in individual cases and decides in such matters even if the mayor presents them to him for decision. It also performs the tasks delegated to it by the Council for decision-making, which regularly includes, above all, the control of the administration. Ultimately, he has the so-called gap competence, which means that the administrative committee is responsible if another municipality body is not responsible .
See also
- District Committee
- Joint community committee
- Lower Saxony municipal code
- Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law
Web links
- Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) of December 17, 2010 , MI.Niedersachsen.de
- Peter Hoffmann: Lower Saxony local government and politics , Politische-Bildung.de
- Section 104 NKomVG of December 17, 2010 , Nds-VORIS.de
literature
- Jörn Ipsen : Lower Saxony municipal law . 3rd edition, June 2006, Boorberg, ISBN 3-415-03220-5 .
- Werner Schwirzke and Klaus Sandfuchs: General Lower Saxony municipal law . 15th edition, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-555-20257-X .
