The Ministry of the Interior and Safety said on the 30th that from the 31st to May 11 it will give advance notice of legislation for the Enforcement Decree of the Special Act on the Establishment of the Jeonnam-Gwangju Integrated Metropolitan City and the amendment to the Enforcement Decree of the Local Autonomy Act.
This enforcement decree is being drawn up because the Special Act on the Establishment of the Jeonnam-Gwangju Integrated Metropolitan City was promulgated on the 5th, and aims to set detailed operating standards for special cases before the law takes effect on July 1.
The draft enforcement decree consists of a total of 82 articles. It stipulates the detailed operating standards for special cases by field, including the purpose of enactment and general administration, educational autonomy, urban development, and industrial revitalization.
Specifically, it consists of provisions including ▲ 16 on general administration ▲ 16 on educational autonomy ▲ 7 on urban development ▲ 27 on industrial revitalization ▲ 15 on other matters.
The main points include, in the field of general administration, defining details necessary for the establishment and operation of the Jeonnam-Gwangju Integrated Metropolitan City Support Committee under the Prime Minister, established under Article 12 of the law, such as the scope of heads of central administrative agencies eligible to attend, the Chairperson's duties, and the quorum for meetings.
In the field of educational autonomy, the qualifications for foreign teachers at science high schools that the superintendent of the integrated metropolitan city may designate or establish were specified as including at least three years of teaching experience.
For urban development, it specifies that the scope of national support for ports in the integrated metropolitan city that the state may support includes port development projects under the Harbor Act. In the field of industrial revitalization, it limits national support for creating an energy self-reliant city to investment costs under the Intelligent Electric Power Grid Act.
In other areas, it defines the scope of cultural arts and tourism-related districts and special zones where procedures for issuing visas may be set differently as cultural districts, cultural industry promotion districts, and tourism special zones.
The amendment to the Enforcement Decree of the Local Autonomy Act includes a total of 14 articles. It stipulates the method of allocating duties for the vice mayors of the integrated metropolitan city and the order of acting for the mayor (administrative 1·2 → political affairs 1·2), and adds the integrated metropolitan city and the integrated metropolitan city mayor to the types of local governments and local government heads.
The advance notice of legislation can be viewed from the 31st on the Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS) website or in the Republic of Korea Electronic Official Gazette.
Yoon Ho-jung, Minister of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS), said, "We will prepare the enforcement decree without a hitch so that residents in the region can feel the effects of the integration."