Convention communities are regional administrative bodies in Rhineland-Palatinate, which consist of several legally independent local municipalities. It concerns thereby a kind central administrative body of several independent municipalities, which for the completion of its administrative business a new regional administrative body, which form convention community. Own tasks are assigned the convention communities, like public education, fire-brigade, central sport, play and leisure facilities, water supply or sewage disposal after the Gemeindeordnung of Rhineland-Palatinate. This has its own selected local council (convention community advice) and a full-time mayor. The federation municipality in their order notices the tasks of the local municipalities. The mayor of a convention community can be in personnel union local mayors of a local municipality at the same time ("§71 Gemeindeordnung Rhineland-Palatinate).

The individual local municipalities have for their part own agencies (local local council) and honorary local mayor. At very small local municipalities, which consist only of few inhabitants, the municipality meeting steps in place of the local council. There are some local municipalities, which have less than 20 inhabitants.

Federation-free cities and municipalities notice the functions of the administration of a convention community, which are specified by Rhineland-Palatinate in the Gemeindeordnung.

Federation member of cities are local municipalities with the status of a city. Usually they are seat and name givers of the respective convention community.

In other Lands of the Federal Republic there are the convention communities similar mechanisms with other designations and partially also different setting of tasks.

See also

• List of the convention communities in Rhineland-Palatinate (sorted according to districts)
• : Category: Convention community in Rhineland-Palatinate (alphabetically sorted)
• List of the places in Rhineland-Palatinate
• Kinds of municipality

Regional administrative bodies:

• Integrated municipality

Bodies of the public right:

• Office
• Central administrative body
• Local administration federation

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