mayor of a place in Belgium
Let an agent explain the office of mayor in Belgium, how mayors are appointed and their powers, and find current office holders from official sources.
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Office Which mayor.
Municipality
Place.
Municipality
Name and code.
- Which municipality? provenance
- Which NIS code? provenance
Holder
Person.
Holder
Name and term.
- Who is mayor? provenance
- Since when, per which source? provenance
Appointment Rules.
Region
Applicable law.
Law
Decree or code.
- Which region's law applies? provenance
- Which article? provenance
Process
Nomination.
Process
Steps.
- How was the mayor appointed? provenance
- By which government decision? provenance
Powers Competences.
Public order
Police powers.
Power
Description.
- Which public order powers? provenance
- Under which law? provenance
Executive
College.
College
Role.
- What is the mayor's role in the college? provenance
- Per which law? provenance
Titles Honorary.
Honorary mayor
Title.
Honorary title
Conditions.
- When is the honorary title granted? provenance
- By whom? provenance
History
Past mayors.
Past holder
Name and term.
- Who held the office before? provenance
- From which source? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.PER
- Other names and narrower kinds
- Mayor of Berchem, Mayor of Ghent, Mayor of Ixelles - Elsene, honorary mayor, Mayor of Aalst, Mayor of Asse, Mayor of Zonhoven, Mayor of Dendermonde, Mayor of Puurs-Sint-Amands, mayor of Lembeke, Mayor of Beernem, Mayor of Bertem
What it is Filled
The mayor (burgemeester in Dutch, bourgmestre in French, Buergermeister in German) of a Belgian municipality, who chairs the college of mayor and aldermen and holds public-order powers; selection rules differ by region: designation by preference votes with Flemish government appointment in Flanders since 2024, by operation of law in Wallonia's ordinary system, appointment by the regional government in Brussels, and selection through the majority pact in the German-speaking Community.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain the office of mayor in Belgium, how mayors are appointed and their powers, and find current office holders from official sources.
Distinguishing features Filled
- In Flanders since the 2024 elections, the Belgian councillor with the most preference votes in the largest coalition group is normally designated; the six peripheral municipalities keep a nomination procedure.
- In Wallonia's ordinary system the councillor with the most preference votes on the strongest majority list becomes mayor by law; Brussels law allows appointment from outside the council under conditions.
- Municipal law is a regional competence since 2001-2002 (and of the German-speaking Community since 2005).
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- state current office holders without a dated source
May
- explain the office and point to official lists
Moral aspects Filled
- accuracy
- neutrality
Who is affected
- residents
Owners Filled
Steward
the municipality, with the regional or community authority
Master systems
- regional lists of mayors
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q30185 - registry parent class
related
- mayor - office
- municipality of Belgium - local government
- college of mayor and aldermen - executive
- provincial governor - oversight
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.mayor-of-a-place-in-belgium
- Wikidata: Q16009147 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16009147)
- NIS/INS municipality code: 5 digits for the municipality served
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
An office has no physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Mayoral sash in Belgian national colours at official events
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the office and powers
- explain appointment rules by region
- find current mayors from official sources
- explain the honorary mayor title
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Outdated lists after elections
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Flemish Decree on Local Government (2017)
- Walloon Code of Local Democracy and Decentralisation
- Brussels New Municipal Law
- German-speaking Community Gemeindedekret of 23 April 2018
Context of use required Filled
- Local executive leadership and public order.
- mayor in Flanders
- mayor in Wallonia
- mayor in the Brussels-Capital Region
- mayor in the German-speaking Community
- acting mayor
- honorary mayor (a title without executive powers)
Sources Filled
- Q16009147 - identity of the registry item, labels and sitelinks
- Mayor (Belgium) - office of mayor in Belgium
- Aanduiding - Post-2024 designation, appointment and succession rules, including peripheral-municipality exceptions.
- Code de la democratie locale et de la decentralisation - Article L1123-4: election by operation of law; majority pact and municipal executive.
- Nouvelle loi communale: Titre I - Brussels appointment rules, exceptions to council membership and honorary titles.
- Handbuch fuer Gemeindemandatare - Municipal decree, council selection through the majority pact, mayoral functions and German terminology.
- REFNIS code - Five-digit codes identify administrative entities, including municipalities.
- Bourgmestre - Comparative regional rules, public-order powers, acting mayors and appointment exceptions.
Open questions
- The registry merges individual mayoral offices (Ghent, Aalst and others); they can be linked as instances.
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q16009147/spec.json