Ságvári Ágnes (szerk.): Budapest. The History of a Capital (Budapest, 1975)

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Section 7.

The Central Council shall be the directing and controlling organ of city life as a whole. The management of all matters which affect more than the population of any respective district and which can only be dealt with effectively on a city-wide basis, shall fall within their jurisdiction.

The Central Council shall:

a. frame the regulations and pass resolutions on questions affecting the whole city area;

b. employ, dismiss and supervise the officials and specialized staff of the central administration ;

c. elect the members of the central executive committee, and may at any time revoke their appointment;

d. establish and maintain all public utilities and services required to meet the needs of the population of Budapest as a whole;

e. prepare the budget and the final accounts for the capital, subject to the approval of the Governing Council and of the Federal Central Executive Committee;

f. call on the personal labours and financial resources of the population in handling public

tasks;

g. control and approve the budget and the final accounts of the districts;

h. direct and control the work of the central executive committee;

i. see that a standard of uniformity is observed in the work of the district councils, as well as of the district executive committees throughout the city;

j. take decisions on the territorial expansion of the capital, on the repartition of districts, and direct developments in the capital;

k. note the effects of the decrees of the Federal Central Executive Committee, of the Governing Council and the People’s Commissariats, and call their attention to shortcomings.

Section 8.

The central eighty-member Executive Committee shall enforce the resolutions of the Central Council, direct the municipal administration and submit proposals and reports to the Central Council; it shall prepare the budget and the various final accounts for the capital, and the decisions to be passed by the Central Council; through its delegates it shall supervise the work of the district councils, their executive committees, and the specialized staff employed by the Central Council and the district councils. It shall elect the five-member Central Presidential Council.

The Central Executive Committee shall pro tempore take measures that cannot be deferred, even in matters normally reserved to the Central Council. The Council may repeal such measures ...

Section 16.

The councils shall take steps to see that all members of the public receive prompt and thorough informations on matters concerning them in their mother tongue with the minimum of formalities, that suitable officials be available to record petitions and complaints presented orally, and that petitions shall be dealt with expedition after hearing the persons concerned and after a full exposition of the case, based as far as possible in direct confronta-102