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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
Wilkowice [vilkɔˈvit͡sɛ] is a village in Bielsko County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Wilkowice . [ 1 ] It lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) south of Bielsko-Biała and 56 km (35 mi) south of the regional capital Katowice .
It is the only official source of law for promulgation of Polish laws. The publication of this journal is solely the responsibility of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland . 'Dziennik Ustaw' traces its history to the 1918 'Dziennik Praw Królestwa Polskiego' (English: Journal of Laws of the Kingdom of Poland ) and has changed its name ...
Major cities normally have the status of both gmina and powiat. Poland currently has 16 voivodeships, 380 powiats (including 66 cities with powiat status), and 2,478 gminas. [1] The current system was introduced pursuant to a series of acts passed by the Polish parliament in 1998, and came into effect on
Poland has had a long history of having gminas as an administrative division. In Interwar Poland, for instance, gminas also were local self-government entities. This stayed after World War II until the administrative reform in 1950. [5] Borders of gminas of Poland, as of 1 January 2020. That year, a large overhaul of local administration has ...
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 ...
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.
Jankowice [jankɔˈvit͡sɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pszczyna, within Pszczyna County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. [1] It lies approximately 4 km (2.5 miles) north-east of Pszczyna and 28 km (17 miles) south of the regional capital Katowice .