Small Lexicon of Municipalities of the Czech Republic
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1. Municipalities (municipality parts) are shown under the territorial structure effective as at 1 January 20043. The figures on municipalities refer to 20032 unless stated otherwise.
2. Municipality (OBEC): a basic territorial self-governing community of citizens; it forms territorial unit defined by the community borders. It is a public corporation, has its own property and acts in its own name in legal relations assuming responsibilities stemming from these relations. It has one or more cadastral territories. For some, also statistical purposes, military districts are also considered as municipalities. There are five military districts in the Czech Republic : Brdy, Boletice, Hradiště, Březina, and Libavá. There were 6249 municipalities in the Czech Republic on 1 January 20043. The municipalities that enjoy the statute of town are highlighted in the Lexicon. The Lexicon also shows city parts (MĚSTSKÉ ČÁSTI/ MĚSTSKÉ OBVODY) of the statutory cities of Brno, Ostrava and Plzeň and the capital city of Prague.
3. Municipalities with extended competence are laid down by Act No. 314/2002 Coll., of 13 June 2002. Municipalities are assigned to the municipalities with extended competence by the Ministry of the Interior’s Decree No. 388/2002 of. 15 August 2002. Shown in this column for the capital city of Prague is the belonging of the city parts to administrative districts (i.e. to Prague 1 to 22 where authorities of these city parts exercise a large part of state administration for inhabitants of the remaining 35 city parts).
4. Each municipality part (ČÁST OBCE): can be defined in two ways. Given the fact that it is a unit of the territorial division of the country, which appears on the official list of municipalities, it can be defined as a unit included as a municipality part in the official list of municipalities and their parts (i.e. in the Statistical Lexicon of Municipalities of the Czech Republic 1992 and the amendments published in the Official Journal of the CR). From the subject-matter point of view, however, the municipality part is composed of a group of houses having a common name and land-registry numbers from one numerical series.
5. Cadastral territory (KATASTRÁLNÍ ÚZEMÍ): a continuous complex of pieces of land registered together. In information systems, this concept is mainly used to derive information on land resources and phenomena occurring independently of settlements. Cadastral territories cover the whole territory of the country. In addition to the cadastral territory concept, the concept of territorial technical unit (ÚZEMNĚ TECHNICKÁ JEDNOTKA) is also used. These units are identical to cadastral territories except those, which are split by municipality or city district borders (e.g. in Prague, Brno, Plzeň).
6. Cadastral area (KATASTRÁLNÍ VÝMĚRA): area of the cadastral territory of a municipality. For municipalities that emerged in 1990 - 2002 and have not yet had their cadastral territories defined, this publication uses total area figures for the cadastral territory concerned. For the statutory cities of Prague, Brno and Plzeň, figures on the area are also given for city sections, whose cadastral territories have not yet been defined (split cadastral territories). The figures were taken over from the Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre and always refer to 31 December 20032. The summary tables for districts and regions give the official area of districts/regions, also provided by the Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre.
7. Population: the data are taken over from the population balance as of 31 December 20032 and adjusted to correspond to the territorial structure in force as of 1 January 20043. Information on populations in city parts of the statutory towns of Brno, Ostrava and Plzeň are not available and only totals referring to the 1 March 2001 Population and Housing Census are given.
8. Post offices: Post offices (designated with 1) cover post centres, post branch and places of posting (all designated with *). The post office provides all-embracing postal services (receiving and delivering of letter-mail items and other services for citizens, enterprises, institutions, and organizations) and has its own postcode. The post centre provides chosen postal services and has no postcode of its own. The post branch provides posting services largely through a private person in the framework of their activity (e.g. trade) based on a contract. Its postcode is derived from the postcode of its mother post office. The place of posting does not offer posting services, but it has its own postcode.
9. Basic schools: all establishments of primary and lower secondary education: nine-year schools and schools with reduced number of classes (marked with * and 1, respectively). However, only the higher school type (marked with 1) is marked for municipalities where both types exist. The data are taken over from the database of the Institute of Information on Education of the CR and are supplemented where possible with survey results obtained by the CZSO’s regional offices.
10. Health establishments: combined outpatient health care establishments, outpatient health care establishments, hospitals, special therapeutic institutions including those for long-term patients, other inpatient establishments, independent surgeries of physicians and other independent establishments, including detached workplaces. The data are taken over from the basic database of the Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the CR and supplemented where possible with survey results obtained by the CZSO’s regional offices.
11. Police: all district units of the Police of the CR, including their detached units and units of municipal police.
12. Sewerage (piped to a municipal wastewater treatment plant): pipelines and channels used to pass sewage water from individual real estates to a wastewater treatment plant.
13. Running water: water pipelines designed to supply water from public water mains, irrespective of whether they are owned by a water management organisation, municipality, agricultural cooperative or any other legal entity.
14. Gas availability: a state, when a municipality is connected to a pipeline supplying gas from a central source.
15. Availability of running water, gas and sewerage connected to a wastewater treatment in municipality is also shown even if it applies to a part of municipality only. However, if a part split off a municipality to become an independent municipality and only this part was provided with piped water, sewerage or gas connection, the original municipality is not reported as being provided with these utilities.