Mayor´s powers

1. Mayor is a representative of the town and its supreme executive body. The office of Mayor is a public office. The Mayor’s period of office terminates on the taking of an oath by a new Mayor. The mode of electing Mayor is subject to a separate law.
2. The office of Mayor is incompatible with the office of:
   •  Member of Municipal Parliament,
   • municipal employee,
   • authorised representative of a budget-funded organization or organization receiving contributions from the budget established by the municipality,
   • Chairman of Regional Government
   • principal employee of a public administrative body, in accordance with a separate law.
3. Mayor
   • summons  and conducts meetings of Municipal Parliament and Municipal Council and signs their resolutions
   • executes municipal administration
   • represents the town toward government bodies, legal entities and natural persons,
   • decides on all aspects of  municipal administration which are not reserved for decision-making of the Municipal Parliament by the law or municipal regulations,
   • performs custody of the municipal flag and seal
   • uses municipal insignia
   • awards Mayor’s Prize.
4. Mayor is an authorised representative of the town in its property relations and in employment relations toward the municipal employees; it is an administrative body in administrative-legal affairs.

Source: Statutes of the Poprad Town