Article 99 [Lands, Regions, Municipalities]
The Czech Republic is divided into municipalities which are the
basic units of territorial self-administration.
Higher units of
territorial self-administration are lands and regions.
Article 100 [Right to Self-Administration]
(1) The units of territorial self-administration are territorial
communities of citizens, which have the right to
self-administration. The law determines when they are
administrative districts.
(2) A municipality is always part of a higher unit of territorial
self-administration.
(3) A higher unit of territorial self-administration may be
established or dissolved solely by a constitutional law.
Article 101 [Board of Representatives]
(1) A municipality is independently administrated by a board of
representatives.
(2) A higher unit of territorial self-administration is independently
administrated by a board of representatives.
(3) Units of territorial self-administration are public law
corporations which may have their own property and may engage
in management according to their own budgets.
(4) The state may interfere in the activities of units of territorial
self-administration only if it is necessary for the protection of law
and solely by means specified by law.
Article 102 [Elections]
(1) Members of the board of representatives are elected by secret
ballot on the basis of universal, equal, and direct suffrage.
(2) The term of office of the board of representatives is four
years. The law stipulates under what conditions new elections to
the board of representatives shall be called before the expiration
of its term of office.
Article 103 [Names]
The name of a higher unit of territorial self-administration shall be
decided by its board.
Article 104 [Jurisdiction, Decrees]
(1) The powers of the board of representatives may be set down
solely by law.
(2) The board of representatives resolves matters of
self-administration, unless these are entrusted by law to the board
of representatives of a higher unit of territorial self-administration.
(3) Boards of Representatives may issue generally binding decrees
within the limits of their jurisdiction.
Article 105 [Bound by Law]
The exercise of state administration may be entrusted to bodies of
self-administration only when determined so by law.