Legal Acts in English

Local self-government units shall be municipalities, towns and the City of Belgrade.
The territory and seat of a local self-government unit shall be specified by the Law.
Establishment, revocation or alteration of the territory of a local self-government unit shall be preceded by a referendum on the territory of that local self-government unit.
Affairs of a local self-government unit shall be financed form the direct revenues of the local self-government unit, the budget of the Republic of Serbia, in accordance with the Law, and the budget of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, in cases when the autonomous province delegated the performing of affairs within its competences, in accordance with the decision of the Assembly of the Autonomous Province.

Municipalities shall be established and revoked by the Law.
A town shall be established by the Law, in accordance with the criteria stipulated by the Law regulating local self-government.
A town shall have competences delegated to the municipality by the Constitution, whereas other competences may be delegated to it by the Law.
It may be envisaged in the Statute of the town to establish two or more town municipalities on the territory of the town. The Statute of the town shall regulate the affairs falling within the town competence performed by town municipalities.
The status of the City of Belgrade, the capital of the Republic of Serbia, shall be regulated by the Law on the Capital and the Statute of the City of Belgrade. The City of Belgrade shall have competences delegated to the municipality and city by the Constitution and the Law, and other competences may be delegated to it in accordance with the Law on the Capital.

The municipality shall, through its bodies, and in accordance with the Law:
1. regulate and provide for the performing and development of municipal activities;
2. regulate and provide for the use of urban construction sites and business premises;
3. be responsible for construction, reconstruction, maintenance and use of local network of roads and streets and other public facilities of municipal interest; regulate and provide for the local transport;
4. be responsible for meeting the needs of citizens in the field of education, culture, health care and social welfare, child welfare, sport and physical culture;
5. be responsible for development and improvement of tourism, craftsmanship, catering and commerce;
6. be responsible for environmental protection, protection against natural and other disasters; protection of cultural heritage of the municipal interest;
7. protection, improvement and use of agricultural land;
8. perform other duties specified by the Law.
The municipality shall autonomously, in accordance with the Law, adopt its budget and annual balance sheet, the urban development plan and municipal development programme, establish the symbols of the municipality, as well as their use.
The municipality shall see to exercising, protection and improvement of human and minority rights, as well as to public informing in the municipality.
The municipality shall autonomously manage the municipal assets, in accordance with the Law.
The municipality shall, in accordance with the Law, prescribe offences related to violation of municipal regulations.

The Statute shall be the supreme legal act of the municipality. The Statute shall be adopted by the Municipal Assembly.
The Municipal Assembly shall pass general acts within its competences, adopt the budget and annual balance sheet, adopt the development plan and the municipal spatial plan, schedule the municipal referendum and perform other duties specified by the Law and the Statute.
Municipal bodies shall be the Municipal Assembly and other bodies designated by the Statute, in accordance with the Law.
The Municipal Assembly shall decide on the election of municipal executive bodies, in accordance with the Law and the Statute.
Election of executive bodies of the town and the City of Belgrade shall be regulated by the Law.

The Government shall be obliged to cancel the enforcement of the municipal general act which it considers to be in noncompliance with the Constitution or the Law, and institute the proceedings of assessing its constitutionality or legality within five days.
The Government may, under the terms specified by the Law, dismiss the Municipal Assembly.
Simultaneously with the dismissal of the Municipal Assembly, the Government shall appoint a temporary body which shall perform duties within the competences of the Assembly, taking into consideration the political and national composition of the dismissed Municipal Assembly.

The body designated by the Statute of the municipality shall have the right to lodge an appeal with the Constitutional Court if an individual legal act or action by a state body or body of local self-government unit obstructs performing the competences of the municipality.
The body designated by the Statute of the municipality may institute the proceedings of assessing the constitutionality or legality of the Law or other legal act of the Republic of Serbia or autonomous province which violates the right to local self-government.