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parish assembly
noun
The decision-making body of local government, comprising ratepayers and electors of the parish
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Constable Richard Vibert has postponed discussions by a fortnight so he can hear the views of residents at a parish assembly on 14 March.
In addition to the junta de freguesia as its executive body, each civil parish has an assembleia de freguesia (civil parish assembly) as its deliberative body.
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Representatives to parish assemblies are chosen through local elections for four-year terms.
At the parish hall assembly, 103 people voted in favour and 52 voted against.
It contains the boundaries for local authority administrative areas (county, unitary and district councils), ward, civil parish, 2010 parliamentary, assembly and European constituencies.
One calls for an archdiocesan-wide assembly of parish leaders.
Under the Assembly's Civil Constitution of the Clergy (July 1790), bishops were to be elected by départements' electoral assemblies, while parish priests were to be chosen by electors in the districts.
Each parish has a directly elected assembly (assembleia de freguesia), which appoints its own executive body, the parish board (junta de freguesia).
The presidents of the each of the 12 juntas de freguesia (civil parish councils) serve on the assembly.
Lisbon's municipal assembly consists of representatives chosen by their parish committees and members directly elected by the local citizens.
The Jena Police Department asked Parish Attorney Walters to attend and speak at the assembly.
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