SECTION 168

The council shall deliberate, in particular, on: 1- urban planning documents; 2- council economic, social and cultural development plans and programmes; 3- budgets and the administrative account; 4- the creation and management of municipal public facilities in areas concerning preschool and basic education, non formal education and apprenticeship, vocational training, health, public hygiene and sanitation, road and communication infrastructure classified under the council domain, public transport and traffic plans, water and energy, trade fairs and markets, youth affairs, sports, arts and culture, and small-scale exploitation of council mineral resources; 5- the management of the council's area of interest, especially pollution and nuisance control, the organization of agricultural and animal health activities, land management, the acquisition and disposal of heritage property, the management of forest, wildlife and fishery resources; 6- the creation and management of council public services; 7- the organization of economic activities; 8- the organization of handicraft and tourism activities; 9- the organization of social promotion and protection activities; 10-the fixing of council tax rates, in accordance with the brackets fixed by law; 11- the acceptance and rejection of grants, subsidies and legacies; 12- leases and other agreements; 13- loans and loan guarantees or endorsements; 14-granting subsidies; 15- equity investment; 16- twinning projects and cooperation with other national or foreign local authorities; 17-staff management procedures; 18-standing orders laying down, among other things, the operating procedures of council committees; 19-council police regulations; 20-human investment projects; 21- the creation, decommissioning or extension of cemeteries; 22-the regime and the conditions of accessing and using all types of water points; 23-the creation, demarcation and marking out of livestock trails within the council, with the exception of highways that fall under the jurisdiction of the State; 24- the naming of squares, streets, complexes and municipal gardens.