Local Government Act Article 57

Township/city offices shall have a mayor who shall represent the township/city in external affairs and administer affairs of the township/city. The mayor of the township/city shall be popularly elected for a term of four (4) years and may be re-elected to a second term. A city with a population of not less than three hundred thousand (300,000) may have a deputy mayor who shall assist the mayor in handling municipal affairs and shall be employed as a confidential staff member, or shall be appointed to a position equivalent to Grade 10. Deputy mayors employed as confidential staff members shall resign their position when the mayor completes their term, resigns, is dismissed, or in the event of the mayor’s death.Mayors of mountain indigenous townships shall be persons of mountain indigenous ancestry. Acting mayors of mountain indigenous townships appointed in accordance with the procedures of Article 82 shall also be persons of mountain indigenous ancestry.Where the population of a township/city is not less than twenty thousand (20,000), the township/city shall have one (1) chief secretary, who shall be appointed and dismissed by the township/city mayor in accordance with the Civil Service Employment Act. Except for heads of the departments of budget, accounting and statistics, personnel, and government ethics, who shall be appointed and dismissed in accordance with specific acts on personnel administration, heads of first-level units shall be appointed and dismissed by the mayor of the township/city in accordance with law.Mayors of townships/cities elected pursuant to Paragraph 1 shall take their oath of office on the day the term of the previous administration ends.