Code enforcement

The clerk's office is in Germany and in Austria part of the local government.

Situation in Germany

After the model administrative subdivision plan of KGSt ( Municipal Community Office for Public Management ) is supplied affiliated with the order number 32 the area justice, security and order management.

Frequently communities in several regulatory agencies are summarized in the clerk's office. Therefore, the clerk's office performs a variety of administrative agency tasks. This can be very different in each municipality due to the municipal self-government. Many cities have established the Correctional Service of regulatory authority in the clerk's office. Uniforms and vehicles must carry the words clerk's office, in Hesse also city police or Ordnungspolizei. The employees and officials of the public affairs office and the city police are partly armed with firearms and have, according to state law are different, on similar powers as the National Police.

Legal entity of the public affairs office of a municipality, the municipality undertook a substantive body.

Situation in Austria

In Austria regulatory agencies are set up in only a few cities. In medium-sized cities city police forces are often put in place, which pass through the city ordinances. This city police forces are equal and armed federal police in the municipality. In cities with a State Police as a safety authority first instance, which may not establish a municipal police, security services were partly furnished. These are the order station Graz, Klagenfurt, the clerk's office, the Mobile Monitoring Group in Innsbruck or about the order guard catfish. In Linz, the clerk's office is not set up at the city council but as a limited company and called the order of service (stewarding the city of Linz GmbH). The staff of the regulatory agencies are uniformed and partly as armed in Klagenfurt, with pepper spray.