The organization of the executive function of the municipal public power Case: “Exploratory study of the organization of the mayor's office of Maracaibo in the State of Zulia”

Abstract

The primary objective of this research was to examine the structural, legal, and administrative organization of the Maracaibo Municipal Government, including its various organs and entities, from a centralized, decentralized, and deconcentrated perspective. This research was classified as mixed, being descriptive, documentary, and exploratory. The population in this study is composed from two perspectives: the object, referring to the bibliographic documents of a doctrinal, legal, and jurisprudential nature linked to the municipal executive power of Maracaibo, and an inquiry into the number of organs and entities that comprise it, as well as municipal public administration from January 2024 to December of the same year. In order to collect the data for this research, the technique of documentary observation was used.  The results of this study showed that the Maracaibo Municipal Government is made up of Directorates, Offices, and Commissions that make up the Centralized Municipal Public Administration. It also has eleven (11) Decentralized Services that make up the Decentralized Municipal Public Administration, as well as (1) administrative body with functional autonomy, such as the child and adolescent protection council. Likewise, it has seven (07) Foundations, seventeen (17) Public or Autonomous Institutes, and  finally two (02) Municipal Companies that make up the Decentralized Public  Administration, legal-administrative figures provided for in the Decree with the rank,  value, and force of the Organic Law of Public Administration (2014), and the Organic  Law of Municipal Public Power (2010). Given that this compilation of municipal bodies and entities is an essential element of analysis for this research, it provides a highly important framework for future investigations if each of these municipal bodies  and entities conforms to the provisions established in the Venezuelan legal system.