Mayor
See also: Mayor (homonymy)
The mayor represents the municipal authority. In many cases, he is the holder of the Executive power on the level of a city or a village in France and with the Quebec. In a Government with municipal management as in certain cities of the Canada and the the United States, the mayor has only one protocolar role, the council being the holder of the executive power. The election or its designation (see Municipal elections), its role and its attributes is variable according to the cities or countries concerned.
In France
See also: Mayor (France)
In Canada
In Quebec
With the Quebec, the mayors are elected every 4 years on fixed date. The election of the mayor is done independently of that of the advisers. Except for the town of Montreal, a candidate with the town hall cannot be also presented in the form of advising. The mayor incarnates, in.liaison.with the city council men, the executive powers of the municipality. He has also a right to veto which enables him to refuse to approve a decision however majority of the municipal council. However this right to veto is known as suspensive , i.e. it only makes it possible to push back with a later meeting of the Municipal council the raised question. If the provision is adopted again, the mayor cannot put his veto at it any more. He must accept it.
According to article 52 of the Law on the cities and cities (L.R.Q., C.C-19), the capacities of the mayor are described as follows: the mayor exerts the right of monitoring, investigation and control on all the departments and the civils servant or employees of the Municipalité, and especially see so that the incomes of the municipality are perceived and spent according to the law, and so that the payments and the ordinances of the council impartialement are accurately and impartialement put at execution. It submits to the council any project which it believes necessary or useful, and communicates to him all information and suggestions relating to the improvement of finances, the police force, health, safety, cleanliness, with the wellbeing and the progress of the municipality. The mayor also has a capacity of suspension of the employees and civil servants, capacity which however is subjected to certain conditions (art 52 al .2 LCV). The municipal Code of Quebec (L.R.Q., C.C-27.1) prescribed to him also about the same capacities (Article 142 CM).
The Civil code of Quebec also grants the mayor the capacity to celebrate the civil weddings.
In Montreal, one appoints by the word mayor also the principal leaders of the Arrondissement S. a woman who is elected with the town hall is called mairess: the mairess To stop .
As a Democratic republic of Congo
In Democratic republic of Congo, the cities are subdivided in communes. The holder of the executive power of the city carries the title of mayor, and that of Bourgmestre at the communal level. The capital, Kinshasa has a Gouverneur.
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