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| Kaohsiung County Organization Self-government Ordinances |
| Article 1 |
This Act is formulated in accordance with Article 3, paragraph 2 of the Local Administrative Authority Organization Regulations. |
| Article 2 |
Kaohsiung County Government (“Government”) shall carry out self-government matters in accordance with this Act, execute the matters commissioned by central government as well as supervise townships/cities self-government. |
| Article 3 |
Government shall have a magistrate to administer affairs of the county, direct and supervise all Government’s authorities and employees. The Government shall have a deputy magistrate who shall assist the magistrate in handling county affairs. County with population of not less than one million and two hundred fifty thousand (1,250,000) may have an additional deputy magistrate. The deputy magistrates shall be appointed by the magistrate and the appointment shall be submitted to the Ministry of the Interior for recordation. Deputy magistrates shall resign their positions when the county magistrate completes his term, resigns, is dismissed, or upon the mayor’s death. |
| Article 4 |
Government shall have a secretary general, the chief of staff, to execute the orders of the magistrate handling county affairs. The Government shall have six secretaries to administer confidential affairs, mobilize, coordinate, collate manuscripts etc. under the direction and supervision of the secretary general. |
| Article 5 |
Government shall have four advisers to execute the orders of the magistrate in handling county design, examining Acts, coordinating affairs of each bureau/office and provide consultation of county affairs. County with population of not less than one million and two hundred fifty thousand (1,250,000) may have an additional adviser. |
| Article 6 |
Government shall set up bureaus and offices which administer particular affairs:
- Civil Affairs Bureau: to be in charge of self-government administration, household registration and administration, religion, rites/traditions, military administration, public productive enterprises and etc.
- Finance Bureau: to be in charge of financial administration, public property, the national debt, the treasury, cash receipts, local financial administration and etc.
- Education Bureau: to be in charge of school administration, national education, social education, physical education/health protection, preschool education, remedial education, life education, special education and etc.
- Construction Bureau: to be in charge of industry, business, mining, retail market, vendor administration, public utilities and public-run enterprises, fair trade, urban planning, architecture administration, apartment building administration and etc.
- Engineering Affairs Bureau: to be in charge of road engineering, civil engineering, architectural engineering, pipeline administration, tourism, national residence and etc.
- Agriculture Bureau: to be in charge of agriculture, forestry, fishery, livestock, agriculture/fishery guidance, mutual transportation and sales of agricultural/ livestock products, terminal market administration of agricultural products, pesticides administration, natural ecology conservation, water/soil preservation, agricultural route administration/maintenance and etc.
- Water Conservancy Bureau: to be in charge of underwater facilities construction, water conservancy construction, water resource construction, water facilities administration, public facilities and etc.
- Social Affairs Bureau: to be in charge of water administration, social welfare, social assistance, joint operation of administration, social works, evergreen business and etc.
- Labor Bureau: to be in charge of labor relations, labor organization, labor conditions, labor welfare, vocational guidance, labor safety and health and etc.
- Land Administration Bureau: to be in charge of land registration, land ownership, land prices, land utilization, re-planning, general land administration and etc.
- Aborigine Bureau: to be in charge of aboriginal rites, traditions and life guidance, improvement of village environment, development of economic enterprises, management of human resource and aboriginal reservation, development and utilization of tourist resource and etc.
- Secretariat: to be in charge of official seals, documents, files, business matters, purchase, other comprehensive business and etc.
- Legal Affairs Office: to be in charge of legal affairs, administrative appeals, conciliation administration, state compensation and etc.
- Information Office: to be in charge of informational administration, cable television, public relations and etc.
- Planning Office: to be in charge of comprehensive designs and plans, research development, control and checking, information management, push civil service and etc.
- Personnel Office: to be in charge of personnel administration and etc.
- Civil Service Ethics Office: to be in charge of civil service ethics affairs and etc.
- Auditing Office: to be in charge of yearly budget, accounting, audit, final accounting, statistics and etc.
Magistrate shall appoint relevant units to handle affairs except for the aforementioned bureaus and offices.
Unless otherwise prescribed by law, institutions and duties of each bureau and office under the first paragraph hereof may adjust in any of the following circumstances if necessary:
- Phase of assignments have accomplished or policies have changed;
- Affairs or functions wither obviously or reduplicate;
- Jurisdiction has been adjusted, dissolved or merged;
- Delegate or commission to other authorities has more economic benefits;
- Authorities with bad achievements shall be dissolved or merged through profession evaluation;
- Affairs have adjusted or transferred to other authorities or organization.
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| Article 7 |
Government shall have a director-general/chief in each bureau/office who administer particular affairs to execute the orders of the magistrate and direction of the deputy magistrate. Apart from heads of the department of accounting; personnel; and government ethics, who shall be appointed and dismissed in accordance with specific acts on personnel administration. Four staffs of the other heads of the level-1 agencies shall be employed as confidential staff by the magistrate. County with population of not less than one million and two hundred fifty thousand (1,250,000) may have an additional confidential staff. Heads and confidential staffs shall resign their positions when the magistrate completes his term, resigns, is dismissed, or upon the magistrate’s death. The remaining heads of the level-1 agencies and heads of the subordinate level-1 agencies shall be appointed and dismissed by the magistrate in accordance with law.
If personnel numbers of bureau/office exceed 20, Government shall have a deputy director, if beneath 20, Government shall have a specialist of general collation or technician to assist directors in handling affairs. If each bureau/office has a deputy director/chief, Government shall not have a specialist of collation, technician or chief supervisor.
Government shall have consumer protectors, specialists, technical specialists, supervisors, chiefs, captains, assistant technical specialists, junior technical specialists and clerks. |
| Article 8 |
Government shall set up police bureau, fire fighting bureau, health bureau, environment protection bureau, traffic bureau, culture bureau and revenue service of the level-1 authorities. These bureaus shall be in charge of relevant affairs and their organic regulations shall be separately determined.
The bureau/office of the level-1 agencies shall have a director-general/chief to execute the orders of the magistrate, in charge of their own affairs separately and direct/supervise their own authorities and employees. Apart form 1-3 deputy chiefs of police authority, Government may have a deputy chief. If personnel numbers of the other authorities exceed 20, Government may have an additional deputy chief to assist chief in handling affairs. All personnel shall be appointed and dismissed by the magistrate in accordance with the Civil Service Employment Act or specific acts on personnel administration. |
| Article 9 |
To handle special affairs, Government shall have the level-2 agencies of township/city household registration offices, land offices, stadiums, animal health and inspection and quarantine institutes, fishery administrations and etc. The level-2 agencies shall be separately supervised by their own bureaus/offices and their organic regulations shall be separately determined. |
| Article 10 |
The level-1 agencies of the Government may set up section or groups, the maximum number shall not exceed seven; the subordinate level-1 agencies may set up sections, the maximum number shall not exceed eleven; the subordinate level-2 agencies may set up sections, the maximum number shall not exceed eight.
Hospitals, police and fire fighting authorities are not applicable to the preceding paragraph. |
| Article 11 |
The total personnel numbers of Government and the subordinate level-1 agencies (except for hospitals, polices and fire fighting) are two thousand and fifty-six (2,056) which distributed by Government.
The personnel numbers of hospitals, polices and fire fighting authorities shall be formulated by the relevant central competent authorities in accordance with standards. |
| Article 12 |
The grades and personnel numbers of positions in this self-government ordinances shall be separately determined in the organization list.
Except for magistrate and deputy magistrate, profession titles of each grade shall be regulated in accordance with positional grade list. |
| Article 13 |
Government shall set up enterprise organizations after taking into account the prevailing situation. Government shall formulate self-government ordinances and upon approval from the county council, submit to the Ministry of the Interior for recordation. |
| Article 14 |
Where magistrate takes days off, deputy magistrate shall exercise the official powers of magistrate. If deputy magistrate is unable to exercise the official powers of magistrate due to cause, secretary general shall exercise the official powers of magistrate. If secretary general is unable to exercise the official powers of magistrate simultaneously due to cause, the heads shall exercise the official powers of magistrate in orders in accordance with the bureaus of Article 6.
Where the magistrate is suspended from his position, the deputy magistrate shall become the acting magistrate. If the position of the deputy magistrate is vacant or if the deputy magistrate is unable become the acting magistrate, Ministry of the Interior shall request the Executive Yuan to appoint an acting magistrate.
Where the magistrate resigns, is removed from office, or in the event of death, the Ministry of the Interior shall request the Executive Yuan to appoint an acting magistrate.
The resignation of the aforementioned magistrate shall be carried out in writing. The magistrate shall tender the resignation with the Ministry of the Interior, which shall in turn submit the resignation to the Executive Yuan for approval. The resignation shall take effect on the day the resignation is approved. |
| Article 15 |
Government shall have county affairs meeting and its personnel are composed as follows:
- magistrate
- deputy magistrate
- secretary general and advisers
- all chiefs of bureaus and offices
- heads of the subordinate level-1 agencies
- personnel appointed by the magistrate
The aforementioned meeting shall be convened by the magistrate. The magistrate is a chairman of the meeting. If magistrate is unable to attend the meeting due to cause, a post agent shall act as a chairman. |
| Article 16 |
The following issues shall be determined by the county affairs meeting:
- Planning and budge
- Ordinances of county and self-government regulations
- Other matters submitted to county council for examination
- Organization adjustment of the Government the subordinate agencies
- Matters of mutual relations relate to the level-1 agencies and the agencies
- Magistrate designates matters
- Other significant matters of county affairs
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| Article 17 |
Decentralized responsibility system shall be regulated by the Government.
Decentralized responsibility system of the subordinate agencies shall be formulated by the subordinate agencies and submitted to the Government for approval. |
| Article 18 |
This self-government regulations shall come into force from the date of promulgation. |
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