Legislative Regulations on addressing the Prefect’s institution between 1866 and 1914
Legislative Regulations on addressing the Prefect’s institution between 1866 and 1914

Summary/Abstract: In the study we are making an analysis of the main legislative provisions that were used to organize the activity of the Prefecture, as an institution, between 1866 and 1914. The Prefecture is a traditional institution which is typical of the public administration in Romania. The first use of the term Prefect and Prefecture, in a sense which is closer to the one from our days, took place during the Romanian administration in Transylvanian, in the period 1848-1849. In the United Principalities this institution is known under the name of Prefecture starting with Alexandru Ioan Cuza’s reign (1859-1866), but the term was imposed as such after the Great Union of 1918. Acting as representative of the government in the territory, the Prefect was invested with an executive function, in this quality having the possibility to assist at the County Council debates. Following the French model, the Prefect was the head of the Permanent Committee that dealt with all the legal actions, and was helped by the subprefect, in the sense that the latter had as a duty the supervision of the way the decisions taken by the County Council and the Permanent Council were put into practice. In 1861 a new institution was created: the Prefecture’s director. In fact, the director of the Prefecture was the secondary representative of the government in territory, because, in the absence of the Prefect, he could sign all the documents

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