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The members of the Council (repræsentanter), whose number,
in the country, must not be under 12, and not over 48, according
to the size and population of the district, and in the towns from
20 to 84, are chosen for a period of 3 years by those inhabitants
of the municipality who have the right to vote. The councillors
elect, from their own body, a standing committee, the
aldermen (formænd), consisting of a fourth of the councillors, and an
equal number of substitutes. The entire Council retires from office
every 3rd year.
The services of both councillors and aldermen are gratuitous,
but in return, the aldermen as long as they are acting as such,
are exempted from all other civic duties.
The entire Council elects from among the aldermen a
chairman (ordfører), who is at the head of the whole municipal
organisation, and in that capacity has to call and conduct the
municipal meetings, and keep minutes of the same, and who has the
casting vote at these meetings. All communications and petitions
addressed to the aldermen, go through the chairman, and it is
also his duty to see to the carrying out of the resolutions passed
by the aldermen or the Council. The office of chairman, which is
honorary, may therefore entail much work, especially in the larger
municipalities. For this reason, in many places a paid secretary
is appointed for the assistance of the aldermen.
The chief qualifications for becoming a voter, and being
eligible for the election of councillors, are being a Norwegian
citizen over 25 years of age, and having paid rates and taxes according
to assessment on property or income, to state or municipality, for
the year preceding the election; it is also necessary that the voter,
as well as the candidate, has had his legal residence in the
municipality for the two years preceding election and has not received
public charity for the last year, or been a servant in the
household of others. The conditions for municipal franchise are thus
more restricted than at the constitutional elections, where universal
suffrage has now been adopted.
The elections are decided by a majority, as in the political
elections, or, if required, by a legally determined number of voters
in the municipality, by proportional representation. The ratio
system employed in Norway, is a combination of the so-called list
system, and the cumulative system. The mode of procedure is as
follows: A general invitation is issued, some time before the
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