| THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIR THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE THE MINISTRY OF LABOR, WAR INVALIDS AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS -------- | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM Independence - Freedom – Happiness -------------- |
| No. 34/2004/TTLT/BNV-BTC-BLDTBXH | Hanoi, May 14, 2004 |
JOINT CIRCULAR
I. THE NUMBER OF COMMUNE-LEVEL FULL-TIME OFFICIALS AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
1. For communes, wards or district townships with less than 1,000 inhabitants each, no more than 17 officials and public employees shall be arranged, including the following posts:
1.1. Secretaries of Party Committees, secretaries of Party cells (for localities where Party Committees have not yet been set up);
1.2. Party Committee deputy secretaries or standing members (for localities where there are no full-time deputy secretaries in charge of Party affairs); communal Party cell deputy secretaries (for communes where communal Party Committees have not yet been set up); People's Council chairmen (concurrently held by Party Committee secretaries or deputy secretaries);
1.3. People's Council vice chairmen;
1.4. People's Committee presidents;
1.5. People's Committee vice presidents;
1.6. Presidents of Fatherland Front Committees;
1.7. Secretaries of Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Organizations;
1.8. Presidents of Women's Union Organizations;
1.9. Presidents of Peasants' Association Chapters;
1.10. Presidents of War Veterans' Association Chapters;
1.11. Military commanders;
1.12. Security chiefs (for localities where the regular public-security force is not available);
1.13. Officials of the Office-Statistics Bureaus;
1.14. Officials of the Justice-Civil Status Bureaus;
1.15. Officials of the Finance-Accounting Bureaus;
1.16. Officials of the Cadastral-Construction Bureaus;
1.17. Officials of Bureaus for Culture and Social Affairs.
2. Mountainous, highland, deep-lying, remote or island communes with between 1,000 and under 5,000 inhabitants each and delta communes, wards and district townships with less than 10,000 inhabitants each, after employing officials and public employees for the posts specified at Point 1, Section I above, are entitled to additionally arrange two more commune-level full-time officials or public employees among people for the posts of People's Committee vice presidents (according to the Government's regulations for localities where two vice presidents are arranged); Office-Statistics; Culture-Social Affairs or Justice-Civil Status officials, provided that the total number of officials and public employees does not exceed 19.
3. Mountainous, highland, deep-lying, remote or island communes with 5,000 inhabitants or more each shall be entitled to arrange one more full-time official or public employee for every additional 1,500 inhabitants; while delta communes, wards or district townships with 10,000 inhabitants or more each shall be entitled to arrange one more full-time official or public employee for every additional 3,000 inhabitants, and after employing people for the posts specified at Point 1, Section I above, they may additionally arrange commune-level full-time officials or public employees among holders of the posts of People's Committee vice presidents (according to the Government's regulations for localities where two vice presidents are arranged) Office-Statistics; Culture-Social Affairs, Cadastral-Construction; Finance-Accounting or Justice-Civil Status officials, provided that the total number of officials and public employees does not exceed 25.
