Pozycja ustrojowa sekretarza jednostki samorządu terytorialnego

In spite of the lack of the specific statutory competence, a commune secretary, similarly to a district secretary and a secretary of a self-governing province play a specific part in functioning of each commune office, a district starosty and the office of the Marshal respectively. The secretaries are in general treated as office directors that guarantee the continuity in functioning one of the most important local government organizational units. It is mainly the result of the fact that a secretary office is not elected as opposed to an office of a commune head (mayor of a town), a perfect of a district and a province marshal. It is certainly a reason why in the literature a secretary is also called “the first officer” as it happens in some Western European countries. While estimating this office in the present legal status, it is necessary to indicate that making thorough amendments of the law rules that regulate the legal position of a secretary e.g. by introducing this office at the level of the self-government in the province, changing the procedure of establishing an employment relationship with a person to held this position and changing the way of his/her remunerating, the legislator has differentiated some of tasks and duties of commune and district secretaries as well as province secretaries in an unjustified way. The reasons of it should be found in the lack of the amendment of previous regulations in force concerning only at first commune and district secretaries. The baseless lack of competence of a province secretary for drawing up an allographic will pursuant to art. 951 § 1 of the Civil Code or his/her exclusion from the list of entities obliged to make revision statements pursuant to the act of 18th October 2006 on revealing information about documents of safety authorities in the state in the years 1944 - 1990 and the contents of these documents can serve as examples. The above mentioned issues should be changed immediately.