Municipalities, within the frameworks of the Law, have the right to perform the public interest tasks in their area of responsibility that are not excluded from their jurisdiction or are not in the jurisdiction of the state organs:
– Urban and rural planning – urban planning and issuing of technical documentation for construction and issuing of construction permits; regulation and maintenance of construction land;
– Protection of the environment, nature and space regulation – measures for protection and prevention of water, atmosphere and land pollution, protection of nature, protection against noise and ionizing radiation;
– Local economic development – local economic development planning; determining of development and structural priorities; running of local economic policy; support of the development of small and medium size enterprises and entrepreneurship at local level and in that context, participation in the establishment and development of local network of institutions and agencies; promotion of partnership;
– Communal activities – potable water supply; technological water supply; drainage and purification of waste waters; public illumination; drainage and treatment of precipitation; maintenance of public hygiene; collection, transport and treatment of communal solid and technological waste; regulation and organization of public local transportation of passengers; supply with natural gas and heating energy; maintenance of graves, cemeteries, crematoria and provision of burial services; construction, maintenance, reconstruction and protection of local roads, streets and other infrastructure facilities; regulation of traffic regime; construction and maintenance of street traffic signalization; construction and maintenance of public parking spaces; removal of improperly parked vehicles; removal of damaged vehicles from public spaces; construction and maintenance of markets; chimney sweeping; maintenance and use of parks, green spaces, park-forests and recreational spaces; regulation, maintenance and use of river beds in urbanized parts, determining of names of streets, squares, bridges and other infrastructure facilities, etc.;
– Culture – preserving of cultural heritage; celebration of events and persons of importance for the culture and history of the municipality;
– Sport and recreation – development of general sport and recreational activities of the citizens; organization of sport events; maintenance and construction of sport facilities of public interest for the municipality, support sport associations;
– Social welfare and child protection – kindergartens and homes for the elderly (ownership, financing, investments and maintenance); exercising of social care for disabled persons, children without parents and parental care, children with educational and social problems, children with special needs, children from single-parent families, deserted children, persons exposed to social risk, persons with drug and alcohol addiction problems; raising of citizens’ awareness, housing of persons put to social risk, sheltering and education of pre-school children;. Performance of these competencies shall be in accordance with the National Program for Development of Social Care;
– Education – establishing, and financing, and administering of primary and secondary schools, in cooperation with the central government, in accordance with law; organizing of transportation of students and their accommodation in dormitories;
– Healthcare – governance of the network of public health organizations and primary care buildings to include representation of local government in all the boards of all publicly owned healthcare organizations; health improvement; preventive activities; protection of health of workers and protection at work; health oversight over the environment; oversight over the contagious diseases; assistance to patients with special needs (mental health, child abuse, etc.); and other areas that will be determined by law;
Execution of preparations and undertaking of activities for protection and rescuing of citizens and goods at their territory against war destructions, natural and other disasters as well as against the consequences caused by them in the state of war.
Fire fighting activities performed by the territorial fire fighting brigades;
– Supervision over the performance of activities from under municipal competency and other activities determined by law.
In order to execute their activities, the municipalities can establish public services, in accordance to the Law.
The municipality can delegate the execution of some activities of public interest and local importance to other physical or legal entities, based on an agreement for execution of public interest tasks, in accordance to the Law.
