Law establishing an administration for Sudetenland (Bohemia and Moravia) as a Reich gau, under a Reich governor (incomplete text)

1939 REICHSGESETZBLATT PART I, PAGE 780
Law for the building up of the administration in the Reich Gau Sudetenland, of the 14th April 1939.
The Reich government has decided on the following law, which is hereby published. ARTICLE I
Administration of the Reich Gau Sudetenland Par. 1
The Reich Gau Sudetenland is a state administrative district and a self-governing body. par ^
(1) At the head of the Reich Gau stands the Reich Governor, with his seat at Reichenberg.
(2) The Reich Governor is empowered to obtain information from the authorities of the Reich special administrations, the branches of the Organization of industrial economy and commerce, the offices of the Reich Food Office and of the Reich Chamber of Culture, as well as from the offices of other bodies in public law within the Reich Gau and to bring to their attention the governing principles and the measures necessitated thereby. He can, within the limits of the laws and directives of the Supreme Reich Authority, give them instructions for the jurisdiction of his Reich Gau. the Supreme Reich Authorities can cancel decrees by the Reich Governor.
(3) The powers contained in sub-par. 2 cannot be delegated by the Reich governor to the officials attached to him.
Par. 3
(1) The Reich- governor directs the state administration as Reich administration at the Reich Gau level, under the official supervision of the Reich Minister of the Interior and in accordance with the technical directives of the Reich Ministers within their own spheres.
(2) The authorities of the Reich special administrations at the Reich Gau level, with the exception of the Reich Justice, finance, railway, and postal administrations, with their seat in the Reich Gau are attached to the Reich, governor. The Reich governor stands at the head of these administrations, in which he is represented by their chiefs.
(3) Sub-par. 2 applies mutatis mutandis to the provincial agricultural bureau to the extent that the Reich governor is represented in the direction of the provincial agricultural bureau by the (see 3075-PS) provincial agricultural chief and in the direction of provincial insurance service by the Gau Chief.
3076—PS
. Par. 7
The Provincial Presidents in Aussig, Eger and. Troppau are authorities subordinate to the Reich governor. The Provincial Presidents are bound to follow the directives of the Reich governor.
ARTICLE II
Administration of the Rural and Urban Districts
Par. 8
(1) The Reich Gau is divided up into rural and urban districts.
(2) The rural districts are state administrative districts and self-governing bodies ; the urban districts are self-governing
' bodies.
(3) At the head of the rural district stands the Lan drat (district sheriff), at the head of the.urban district the maho.r with the official title of Lord Mayor.
Par. 9
(1) The Landrat directs the whole state administration at the district level within the framework of the present competencies.
(2) The Reich Minister of the Interior delegates to him, in agreement with the Supreme Reich authorities concerned, the tasks and powers of the present special administi'ations.
Par. 10
The state administration in the urban district is directed by the Lord Major, in so far as no other regulation has been or is made for police affairs par. a, sub-par. 2 applies mutatis mutandis.
Par. 11
(1) The Landrat directs the self-government of the rural districts; for the sphere of self-government he has district counsellors to advise him.
(2) As a self-governing body, the rural district has to carry out public tasks on its own responsibility.
(3) The rural district can regulate its own affairs by statute.
(4) The direct supervision of the rural district as a self-governing body is exercised by the district President, the supreme superyision by thé Reich Minister of the Interior.
Par. 14
The Reich Minister of the Interior will issue the legal and administrative regulations necessary for the execution and completion of this law.
890
3076-PS
Par. 15
This law comes into effect on the 1st May 1939. Berchtesgaden, the 14th April 1939.
The Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor
ADOLF HITLER.
[Compare with 3075-PS]