Act on the Competences of Prefects

1. In each district, there shall be a government deputy and a substitute for the same, who are elected and sworn in by the State Council.

1. The Government Commissioner is the chief magistrate of the district and the representative of the executive and administrative authority, from which he receives and executes orders.

**1. The Official Powers of the Government Commissioners are as follows:**

a) the proclamation and execution of laws, decrees, and decisions;

b) the supervision of the administration of municipalities, corporations, and public utility institutions;

c) the oversight of state employees and the rural police (Landjägerei);

d) the certification of public and private acts;

e) the issuance of residence permits and passports and the administration of oaths in cases prescribed by law;

f) the appointment of experts and the acknowledgment and decision on acts, actions, transgressions, and offenses, as expressly authorized by the law;

g) the use of armed forces to prevent unlawful undertakings against public order until the intervention of the State Council, which they must promptly request;

h) the supervision of district prisons;

i) the oversight of precautionary measures to be arranged against the dangers of shooting;

j) the management of neighborly and police relations with bordering states;

k) the supervision of safety and relief measures against floods, landslides, fires, and other accidents or general calamities, and the implementation of such measures in the event of epizootic diseases;

l) in general, all powers previously granted to the President of the Tenth by earlier laws.

1. No armed assembly may take place without authorization aside from the State Council and without prior notification of the government delegate.

2. Military assemblies provided for by earlier provisions and the regular exercises of shooting associations are exempted.

1. The Government Commissioner submits a report to the Department of the Interior on his administration

a) through a monthly report on the enforcement of laws, the administration of municipalities, the service of employees, and facts concerning public matters;

b) through an annual report: (This report should be submitted annually before April 1)

1. on his administration and the political and moral condition of the district, as well as its situation in economic, agricultural, and industrial terms,

2. on the regularity of the accounts and various records in the administration of municipalities, corporations, or other institutions of public benefit, and on improvements to be introduced therein,

3. on the supervision he has exercised over authorities, officials, employees, and the rural police.

1. He also submits to the Council of State special reports on facts that fall within the scope of his competencies, and does so as often as the interests of the service require.