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The Polish law or legal system in Poland has been developing since the first centuries of Polish history, over 1,000 years ago. The public and private laws of Poland are codified. The supreme law in Poland is the Constitution of Poland. Poland is a civil law legal jurisdiction and has a civil code, the Civil Code of Poland.
According to the national law, settlement units or localities (Polish: miejscowość) are broadly classified in Poland as one of the following: [1]. a) a principal locality (miejscowość podstawowa) - an independent locality, e.g. a city/town or a village, all of them are always principal localities, and
All municipalities in Poland are governed regardless of their type under the mandatory mayor–council government system. Executive power in a rural gmina is exercised by a wójt, while the homologue in municipalities containing cities or towns is called accordingly either a city mayor (prezydent miasta) or a town mayor (burmistrz), all of them elected by a two-round direct election, while the ...
Major changes to the framework (such as a restructuring of local administration or regulation of the duties and powers of the self-government) is only possible by law. The current framework and regulation of powers and duties of the local self-government was adopted in 1998 and became effective on 1 January 1999, with special regulations ...
The administrative division of Poland since 1999 has been based on three levels of subdivision. The territory of Poland is divided into voivodeships (provinces); these are further divided into powiats (counties or districts), and these in turn are divided into gminas (communes or municipalities). Major cities normally have the status of both ...
Markowa is a village in Łańcut County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Markowa . It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 miles) south-east of Łańcut and 22 kilometres (14 miles) east of the regional capital Rzeszów .
Lubiatowo [lubjaˈtɔvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Choczewo, within Wejherowo County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. [1] It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) north of Choczewo, 34 km (21 mi) north-west of Wejherowo, and 70 km (43 mi) north-west of the regional capital Gdańsk.
A city with powiat rights (Polish: miasto na prawach powiatu) is in Poland a designation denoting 66 of the 107 cities (the urban gminas which are governed by a city mayor or prezydent miasta) which exercise also the powers and duties of a county (Polish: powiat), thus being an independent city.