By KYIV. May 12 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Verkhovna Rada has made changes to some laws concerning the functioning of local self-government during martial law, MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak (Holos faction) said.
"The Rada adopted bill No. 7269 about the work of local authorities during martial law. Some 289 votes [in the repeated second reading and in general]," Zheleznyak wrote on the Telegram channel.
The draft law on amendments to some laws concerning the functioning of the civil service and local self-government during the period of martial law (No. 7269) simplifies the procedure for making personnel decisions regarding positions in local self-government bodies, heads of subjects of the communal sector of the economy under martial law.
According to the draft law, in conditions of martial law, the rural, village, city head of the territorial community, on whose territory there are no hostilities and no decision has been made to establish a military administration, has the right to make a number of decisions. In particular, the head of the executive body of local self-government has the right to appoint persons to positions and dismiss from positions in local self-government bodies, heads of municipal enterprises, institutions, organizations that belong to the sphere of management of the relevant local self-government body.
During the period of martial law, the heads of local self-government, where there are no hostilities and no decision has been made to establish a military administration of a settlement, may make decisions concerning the transfer of funds from local budgets for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and/or to ensure the legal regime of martial law, the establishment of institutions for the provision of free primary legal aid, the appointment of to positions and dismissal from positions of such institutions, disaster management, epidemics, hazardous waste management.
The bill also stipulates that the head of the territorial community must necessarily inform the head of the relevant regional military administration about his decisions.
The bill clarifies that during the period of martial law, the powers of the President of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada, the Cabinet of Ministers, the National Bank of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, courts, prosecutor’s offices, bodies that carry out operational investigative activities, pretrial investigation, intelligence agencies and bodies whose units carry out counterintelligence activities cannot be terminated.
