City Council

Council - a representative body of local self-government

The City Council is a local self-government body that represents the relevant territorial community and exercises on its behalf and in its interests the functions and powers of local self-government defined by the Constitution of Ukraine, the Law of Ukraine "On Local Self-Government in Ukraine" and other laws.

General competence of the city council

The city council is authorized to consider and resolve issues referred to it by the Constitution of Ukraine, the Law "On Local Self-Government in Ukraine" and other laws.

Exclusive competence of city councils

1. The following issues are resolved exclusively at the plenary sessions of the city council:

1. approval of the council's regulations;

2. formation and liquidation of permanent and other council commissions, approval and change of their composition, election of commission chairmen;

3. formation of the council's executive committee, determination of its size, approval of its personnel; making changes to the composition of the executive committee and its dissolution;

4. electing, upon the proposal of the mayor, the secretary of the council to the position and dismissing him from the position;

5. approving, upon the proposal of the mayor, the structure of the council's executive bodies, the total number of the council's staff and its executive bodies, and the costs of their maintenance;

6. establishing, upon the proposal of the mayor, other executive bodies of the council;

7. approving the council's work plan and hearing the report on its implementation;

8. establishing the mass media of the relevant council, appointing and dismissing their heads;

9. hearing the mayor's report on the activities of the council's executive bodies;

10. adopting a decision of no confidence in the mayor;

11. hearing the reports of standing commissions, heads of the council's executive bodies, and officials appointed or approved by it;

12. hearing reports of deputies on their work in the council, their execution of the council’s instructions;

13. considering requests of deputies, making decisions on requests;

14. making decisions on the early termination of the powers of a council deputy in accordance with the procedure established by law;

15. canceling acts of the council’s executive bodies that do not comply with the Constitution or laws of Ukraine, other acts of legislation, decisions of the relevant council adopted within the limits of its powers;

16. making a decision on the early termination of the powers of the city mayor in cases provided for by the Law “On Local Self-Government in Ukraine”;

17. determining the quantitative composition of the council in accordance with the law;

18. making a decision on holding a local referendum;

19. making decisions in accordance with the law on the organization of referendums and elections of state authorities, local self-government bodies and the city mayor;

20. making decisions on granting the bodies of self-organization of the population with certain own powers of local self-government bodies, as well as on the transfer of funds, material and technical and other resources necessary for their implementation;

21. making decisions on uniting in associations or joining associations, other forms of voluntary associations of local self-government bodies and on withdrawing from them;

22. approving programs for the socio-economic and cultural development of the relevant administrative-territorial units, target programs on other issues of local self-government;

23. approving the local budget, making amendments to it; approving the report on the implementation of the relevant budget;

24. establishing local taxes and fees and the amounts of their rates within the limits specified by law;

25. forming extra-budgetary target (including foreign currency) funds, approving regulations on these funds; approving reports on the use of the specified funds;

26. making decisions on the issuance of local loans;

27. making decisions on obtaining loans from other local budgets and sources, as well as on the transfer of funds from the relevant local budget;

28. making decisions on the provision of local tax and fee benefits in accordance with current legislation;

29. establishing for enterprises, institutions and organizations belonging to the communal property of the relevant territorial communities, the size of the share of profit to be credited to the local budget;

30. making decisions on the alienation in accordance with the law of communal property; approving local privatization programs, as well as a list of communal property objects that are not subject to privatization; determining the feasibility, procedure and conditions of privatization of communal property objects; resolving issues on the acquisition of privatized property in accordance with the procedure established by law, on the inclusion in communal property objects of property alienated in the privatization process, the purchase and sale contract of which was terminated in accordance with the established procedure or declared invalid, on granting concession of objects of communal property rights, on creation, liquidation, reorganization and re-profiling of enterprises, institutions and organizations of communal property of the relevant territorial community; reorganization or liquidation of existing communal preschool educational institutions, as well as preschool educational institutions created by former agricultural collective and state farms, is allowed only with the consent of the territorial community (general meeting) of the city or based on the results of a local referendum;

31. adoption of decisions on the transfer to other bodies of certain powers regarding the management of property belonging to the communal property of the relevant territorial community, determination of the limits of these powers and the conditions for their exercise;

32. creation, if necessary, of bodies and services to ensure the implementation of joint projects with other subjects of communal property or joint financing (maintenance) of communal enterprises, institutions and organizations, determination of the powers of these bodies (services);

33. resolving, in accordance with the legislation, issues on the creation of joint ventures by municipal property enterprises, including those with foreign investments;

34. resolving, in accordance with the law, issues on the regulation of land relations;

35. approving, in accordance with the law, land tax rates, amounts of fees for the use of natural resources owned by the relevant territorial communities;

36. resolving, in accordance with the law, issues on granting a permit for the special use of natural resources of local importance, as well as on the cancellation of such a permit;

37. making decisions on the organization of territories and objects of the nature reserve fund of local importance and other territories subject to special protection; submitting proposals to the relevant state bodies on declaring natural and other objects of ecological, historical, cultural or scientific value as monuments of nature, history or culture protected by law;

38. granting, in accordance with the legislation, consent to the placement of new facilities on the territory of the city, the sphere of environmental impact of which, according to current regulations, includes the relevant territory;

39. hearing reports from the heads of internal affairs bodies on the state of the fight against crime, as well as heads of local militia on the state of public safety and protection of public order in the relevant territory, raising with the relevant bodies the issue of dismissal from their positions of these heads in case their activities are recognized as unsatisfactory;

40. making decisions on issues of administrative and territorial organization within the limits and procedure determined by the Law "On Local Self-Government in Ukraine" and other laws;

41. approving, in accordance with the established procedure, local urban development programs, master plans for the development of relevant settlements, other urban development documentation;

42. approving agreements concluded by the mayor on behalf of the council on issues falling within its exclusive competence;

43. establishing, in accordance with the legislation, rules on the improvement of the territory of a settlement, ensuring cleanliness and order in it, trade in markets, and maintaining silence in public places, the violation of which is subject to administrative liability;

44. adopting, within the limits established by law, decisions on combating natural disasters, epidemics, and epizootics, the violation of which is subject to administrative liability;

45. determining territories in which potentially dangerous activities may be carried out in the presence of the civilian population with the participation of personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, other military formations, and law enforcement agencies using weapons and military equipment;

46. adopting decisions related to the creation of special free and other zones, changes in the status of these zones, submitting proposals to the relevant bodies on these issues; granting consent to the creation of such zones at the initiative of the President of Ukraine or the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine;

47. making a decision on the early termination of the powers of territorial self-organization bodies in cases provided for by the Law "On Local Self-Government in Ukraine";

48. approving the charter of a territorial community;

49. approving, in accordance with the law, the Regulation on the content, description and procedure for using the symbols of a territorial community;

50. resolving, in accordance with the law, the issue of the language (languages) used in their work by the council, its executive body and which is used in official announcements;

51. granting consent to the transfer of objects from state to municipal ownership and making decisions on the transfer of objects from municipal to state ownership, as well as on the acquisition of objects of state ownership;

52. establishing, in accordance with the legislation, a municipal emergency and rescue service

2. Exclusively at plenary meetings of city councils (cities with district division), in addition to the issues specified in part one, the following issues are resolved:

1. determining the scope and limits of powers exercised by district councils in cities (if established) and their executive bodies in the interests of territorial communities of districts in cities;

2. establishing standards for centralizing funds from land tax in special budget accounts of city districts.

3. The following issues are resolved exclusively at plenary meetings of city (cities where internal affairs bodies are established) councils, in addition to the issues specified in part one:

1. establishment, reorganization or liquidation in agreement with the relevant main departments, departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, regions, cities of Kyiv and Sevastopol of local militia;

2. approval of the appointment to and dismissal from positions of the head of local militia, heads of structural units and district inspectors of this militia, proposals for their encouragement or bringing to justice.