The Department for Property and Legal Affairs and Utility Services performs tasks relating to:
Property and legal affairs:
- conducting administrative proceedings and adopting rulings and other acts relating to: expropriation for the purpose of putting land to its planned urban use in accordance with the established public interest, and determining compensation for expropriated real estate by agreement; the transfer of rights to real estate in state or social ownership to another holder of rights (administrative transfer); the establishment of easements, etc., all in accordance with the law governing expropriation; determining the land required for the regular use of a building and preparing proposals of acts for the competent City authority to give consent to the establishment of easements on land in public ownership of the City for the placement, construction, extension or reconstruction of utility infrastructure and electric power facilities, all in accordance with the Law on Planning and Construction; conducting administrative proceedings and adopting acts on applications for the conversion of the right of use into the right of ownership of building land for a fee, in accordance with the law; keeping the register of residents’ associations, appointing a professional building manager in cases prescribed by law, and adopting rulings on the introduction of compulsory administration in residential buildings; conducting administrative proceedings and adopting acts relating to the eviction of persons who have moved in unlawfully: from flats and common areas; from buildings constructed contrary to the Law on Planning and Construction and located on land owned by other natural or legal persons; from flats owned by citizens, endowments and foundations, at the request of the owners of the flats or of tenants with indefinite leases; conducting proceedings and adopting acts on the relocation of these persons to suitable accommodation, all in accordance with the Law on Housing and Maintenance of Residential Buildings; performing professional and administrative tasks for commissions in order to adopt rulings under the Law on the Agricultural Land Fund, preparing reports and information in the field of property and legal affairs for the City authorities, and cooperating with the City Public Attorney’s Office and the State Attorney’s Office, courts, the competent ministries, agencies and other bodies and organisations;
- preparing drafts and proposals of acts for the City authorities relating to the disposal of building land and other real estate in public ownership of the City and the acquisition of building land and other real estate into public ownership of the City, and drawing up contracts and contract annexes, monitoring the collection of receivables and preparing reports for the City authorities with proposed measures, proposing to the City Public Attorney’s Office that court proceedings be initiated to collect receivables, keeping records of real estate in public ownership of the City of Smederevo, taking measures to protect and preserve state-owned real estate entrusted to the City for safekeeping and temporary use, carrying out activities related to the registration of the City’s public ownership, and informing the Republic Property Directorate of the Republic of Serbia of all changes related to the registration of public ownership; preparing: proposals of acts for leasing or granting the use of business premises at the disposal of the City or in respect of which the City holds the right of public ownership, proposals on requests from tenants and users for approval of adaptation works and capital maintenance of the premises and for recognition of the funds invested, proposals following rulings of the Restitution Agency on the return of business premises and other real estate to their former owners or their legal heirs, and carrying out all activities after the premises or other real estate have been handed over into possession, proposals for the termination of contracts, and information and reports for the City authorities concerning business premises; drawing up contracts, annexes and agreements concerning business premises, keeping records of the payment security instruments submitted and proposing their enforcement, keeping records of business premises, monitoring the fulfilment of the contractual obligations of tenants and users of business premises regarding the use and maintenance of the premises, and performing other tasks in accordance with the law, the City Statute, decisions and other regulations adopted on the basis of the law;
- drawing up contracts and contract annexes with the selected user of a site for the temporary use of public space for business and other activities, and with the selected user of a site for the placement of advertising media on public spaces in the territory of the City;
- other tasks in accordance with the law, the City Statute and other acts of the City.
Utility services:
- the organisation and development of utility activities, ensuring the conditions for carrying out utility activities, monitoring and supervising basic utility functions (water supply, waste water drainage, cleaning of public green spaces, public lighting, etc.), and preparing draft decisions in the field of utility activities; draft decisions on the establishment of PEs and PUCs and prior consent to the Proposed Rulebook on the Work of the companies, and preparing draft rulings: on giving consent to the statutes of these companies and to decisions of their supervisory boards, draft rulings on the appointment of directors and of chairs and members of supervisory boards, and other acts in accordance with the law and the City Statute. Issuing rulings on exhumation and performing other tasks in accordance with the law, the City Statute, decisions and other regulations adopted on the basis of the law;
- the procedure for granting space on public land for temporary use for business and other activities: it announces the call for applications and performs professional and administrative tasks for the Commission for the Selection of Users of Sites for the Temporary Use of Public Space. It issues rulings on temporary use for business and other activities on public land;
- the procedure for placing advertising media on public spaces in the territory of the City: it performs professional and administrative tasks for the Commission for the Selection of Users of Advertising Sites;
- issuing approvals for the placement of advertising media and for all other forms of advertising on open spaces in the territory of the City.
Traffic:
- performing tasks of technical traffic regulation: taking all measures and actions that determine traffic arrangements under normal conditions and during roadworks, in particular: directing and guiding traffic, limiting speed or banning movement for all or certain categories of vehicles, designating areas for parking and stopping vehicles, delivery points, and bus and taxi stops; giving consent to traffic projects; issuing rulings to the operator of municipal roads and streets for changes to traffic arrangements, for digging up public roadways and restoring them to their original condition, and for replacing, supplementing and cleaning traffic signs, traffic lights, fences, bollards, traffic mirrors and other equipment; and preparing reports, analyses, conclusions and draft decisions in this field;
- performing tasks in the field of road safety on municipal roads and streets in the territory of the City of Smederevo: monitoring the situation and preparing road safety reports with proposed measures for the City Council and the City Assembly of Smederevo; preparing analyses and research in the field of road safety; performing professional, organisational, administrative and technical tasks for the Road Safety Council of the City of Smederevo; and preparing reports, analyses, conclusions and draft decisions in this field;
- performing tasks relating to public passenger transport, namely urban and suburban transport and taxi transport: preparing the Urban and Suburban Passenger Transport Route Plan, setting up and keeping the register of timetables, and registering and certifying urban and suburban passenger transport timetables; conducting administrative proceedings and issuing taxi licences; setting up and keeping the register of taxi licences issued; preparing reports, analyses, conclusions and draft decisions in the field of public passenger transport;
- performing other tasks in the field of road transport under the powers conferred by the Law on Road Traffic Safety, the Law on Public Roads, the Law on Road Passenger Transport, the Law on Road Freight Transport, the Law on Utility Activities and the Law on Planning and Construction, and by City decisions in the field of traffic; cooperating with the road operator, the Traffic Police, the competent public enterprises and other bodies and institutions. Performing other tasks in accordance with the law, the City Statute, decisions and other regulations adopted on the basis of the law.
Environmental protection:
– determining environmental protection conditions and measures in the procedure for adopting spatial and urban plans; giving consent to the Report on the Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment of certain plans and programmes; deciding in environmental impact assessment procedures for projects, under the powers conferred by the Law on Environmental Impact Assessment; conducting administrative proceedings and adopting acts relating to the collection, transport, storage, treatment and disposal of inert and non-hazardous waste, in accordance with the Law on Waste Management, and keeping records of permits; conducting administrative proceedings and adopting acts in accordance with: the Law on Air Protection (issuing operating permits regarding compliance with the requirements for protecting air from pollution); the Law on Chemicals (issuing permits for trading in chemicals and permits for the use of particularly hazardous chemicals, etc.); conducting administrative proceedings and issuing integrated permits under the powers conferred by the Law on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control; preparing, adopting and implementing environmental protection programmes and plans, and cooperating with the authorised institutions responsible for environmental quality control and systematic environmental monitoring; compiling and publishing information and informing the public about accidents; organising and implementing measures to protect the population in the field of pest control, and implementing and monitoring measures to control ragweed; keeping the local register of pollution sources; monitoring the implementation of the programme for the maintenance and development of green spaces; preparing acts on the designation and protection of certain natural assets, and giving consent to protected area management plans and annual management programmes, through administrative proceedings. Performing delegated tasks in accordance with the Law on Energy (issuing energy permits for the construction of facilities for the production of thermal energy with a capacity of over 1 MW and of facilities for the distribution of thermal energy, issuing licences) and participating in the adoption of regulatory acts in this field. Implementing the basic principles of energy policy and energy efficiency. Performing other tasks in accordance with the law, the City Statute, decisions and other regulations adopted on the basis of the law.