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and be of general application without any delegation of power to consider the matters on
case-by-case basis.
CHAPTER XIV
LOCAL ADMINISTRATION
Section 249. Subject to section 1, local administration shall be organised in
accordance with the principle of self-government according to the will of the people in the
locality, as per the procedure and form of local administrative organisations as provided by
law.
In establishing a local administrative organisation in any form, due regard shall
be had to the will of the people in the locality together with the capacity for selfgovernment in respect of revenues, number and density of the population, as well as areas
under its responsibility.
Section 250. A local administrative organisation has the duties and powers
to regulate and provide public services and public activities for the benefits of the people in
the locality, in accordance with the principle of sustainable development, and to promote
and support the provision of education for the people in the locality, as provided by law.
Provision of any public service and public activity that should be the specific
duty and power of each form of local administrative organisation or should be carried out
mainly by a local administrative organisation, shall be as provided by law. The law shall be
consistent with the revenues of the local administrative organisation under paragraph four.
Such law shall at least contain provisions relating to mechanisms and processes for
decentralisation of duties and powers as well as budget and personnel related thereto of
the government sector to the local administrative organisation.
In providing any public service, or carrying out any public activity, which is
within the duties and powers of a local administrative organisation, if joint operation with a
private organisation or a State agency, or delegation of operation to a private organisation or
a State agency will be more beneficial to the people in the locality than operation by that
local administrative organisation, the local administrative organisation may operate jointly
with or delegate the operation to a private organisation or a State agency.
The State shall undertake to ensure that local administrative organisations
have revenues of their own by establishing an appropriate system of taxation and allocation
of taxes, as well as promoting and developing means for earning revenues of local
administrative organisations. In order to ensure the sufficient implementation of paragraph
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