!!!Landesregierung

Provincial Government, highest administrative authority in the 
provinces (collegial body). The provincial government consists of the  
Landeshauptmann, his deputy/-ies and other members (usually 7-9, 
number is fixed in the provincial constitutions). In Vienna, the City 
Senate is at the same time the provincial government. Members of the 
provincial government must be eligible for the Landtag (provincial 
diet) but need not be members of it. The following posts are 
incompatible with the office of member of the provincial government:  
Federal President, president or vice-president of the  Court of Audit, 
president, vice-president or member of the  Oberster Gerichtshof, of 
the  Constitutional Court and of the  Administrative Court. Members of 
provincial government are answerable to the Landtag, which can bring 
charges against them at the Constitutional Court for culpable 
violation of the law. Legal status as member of the provincial 
government ends if s/he is found guilty by the Constitutional Court, 
also as a consequence of specific convictions, when a new provincial 
government takes office, on the death of the member and, according to 
most provincial constitutions, with the resignation of the member or a 
vote of no-confidence against him/her by the Landtag. Decisions in the 
provincial government are taken by majority vote. The provincial 
constitution can also provide that individual members of the 
provincial government are put in charge of specific tasks of the 
provincial administration, except for matters which are reserved to 
the Landeshauptmann or the provincial government as a body under the 
federal constitution (e.g. the right of the provincial government to 
appeal against federal laws at the Constitutional Court). The 
administrative authority of the provincial government is the Office of 
the Provincial Government.


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