Cabildo de Tenerife is the governing body

Government

Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...

 of the island of Tenerife

Tenerife

Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven Canary Islands, it is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of 2,034.38 km² and 906,854 inhabitants, 43% of the total population of the Canary Islands. About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the...

 (Canary Islands

Canary Islands

The Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...

), Spain. It was established on 16 March 1913 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the capital , second-most populous city of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands and the 21st largest city in Spain, with a population of 222,417 in 2009...

, in a session held by the City Council, it was at that time, the first corporation. The local government of Tenerife, like the other Canarian local governments, has a number of powers gathered together in the Self-governing Statute of The Canary Island as well as a series of powers delegated from the other departments of territorial administration.

Accommodation

The first location of the Tenerife Town Hall was the same building as the City council

City council

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 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the capital , second-most populous city of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands and the 21st largest city in Spain, with a population of 222,417 in 2009...

. In the same year of its constitution the government decided to transfer the seat to a building located at the intersection of Avenida 25 July and Calle Numancia in the capital Tinerfeña. A later transfer took the support offices of the Town Hall to Calle Alfonso XII (currently Calle Castillo), where they remained until 1928. In 1940 they closed the offices of the present “Island Palace” in the Seat of Spain of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. This building is notable for its great tower decorated with a clock commissioned in 1950, hourly chiming traditional Tenerife dances (tajaraste

Tajaraste

Tajaraste is combined music and dance typical of the Canary Islands, . It is specific to the islands of Tenerife and La Gomera. Essentially an upbeat, happy and syncopated rhythm, danced in pairs accompanied by tambourines, drums and small castanet-like instruments called chácaras.The dance is...

). Inside the hall can be found a collection of artistic works, among which are the murals which decorate the walls of the Noble Salon. These murals were painted in 1960 by the Spanish artist José Aguiar.

Internal organization

The Town Hall administration is made up of the following departments:

• Presidency
• Plenary Session
• Government Council
• Supervising Agencies
• Plenary Session Commissions
• Council of Spokesmen
• Political Groups

Departments

The Island Council is composed of the following departments:

• Presidency
• Tourism and Planning
• Health, Relations with the University of La Laguna
• Sustainability, Territory and Environment
• Administration and Treasury
• Economy and Competitiveness
• Social Welfare, Education, Equality and Sport
• Roads, Municipal Co-operation and Housing
• Human Resources and Legal Defence Area
• Agriculture, Livestock, Fishing and Water
• Mobility and Security
• Culture, Heritage and Museums

Responsibilities and Authority

According to article 43 of the LRJAPC, are exclusive competences of the town hall:

• The coordination of the municipal services of the island to guarantee its integral and suitable benefit in the totality of the insular territory, replacing the City councils when the insufficiency of their resources prevents the benefit of the obligatory municipal services or the established public functions in the LBRL.
• The attendance and the legal, economic and technical cooperation to the municipalities, specially to those of smaller economic capacity and management.
• The benefit of services supramunicipal public. to
• Aprobar the Plans Insulares de Obras and Servicios elaborated in collaboration with the City councils of each island. To such aim, the city councils will make the work proposals that affect their municipal term, which they could not be modified by the respective Town hall, safe by just causes and previous hearing of the affected city council.
• The promotion and administration of the peculiar interests of the island. Law 14/1990, of 26 July, Legal Regime of the Public Administrations of the Canary Islands, transfers to the town halls the following competences:
• The territorial demarcations, alteration of terms and denomination of the municipalities, previous opinion of the Consultative Council of the Canary Islands.
• Own functions of the Agencies of Agrarian Extension.
• Experimental farms.
• Forest services, cattle routes and grass.
• Marine Acuicultura and cultures.
• Protection of environment.
• Management and conservation of protected natural spaces, within the framework of the established thing in the effective autonomic legislation.
• Hunting
• Rural infrastructure of insular character.
• Subrogación in the municipal competences on the city-planning planning, of conformity to the established thing in the effective sectorial legislation.
• Highways, except for which they are declared of regional interest, within the framework of which arrange the autonomic sectorial legislation. In the highways of regional interest, the operation, use and defense and sanctioning regime.
• The management of sport ports of refuge and, unless they are declared of regional interest.
• Hydraulic works that are not of regional or general interest, hydraulic work conservation and police and insular terrestrial water administration in the terms that the autonomic sectorial legislation establishes.
• Transports by highway and cable. Railroads, within the framework which it has the autonomic sectorial norm.
• Fairs and markets.
• Police of spectacles.
• Promotion and police of the insular tourism, except for the powers of inspection and sanction.
• Annoying, unhealthy, injurious and dangerous activities.
• Police of house.
• Conservation and administration of the public park of houses.
• Administration of the residences of students established in the island.
• The promotion of the culture, sports, occupation, leisure and relaxation in the insular scope.
• The conservation and administration of the insular historical-artistic patrimony.
• Museums, libraries and archives that do not reserve for himself the Independent Community.
• Promotion of the crafts.
• Social attendance and social services.
• Defense of the consumer.
• Campaigns of zoosanitario cleaning.

Internal organization

The Town hall is made up of the following departments:

• Presidency
• Plenary Session
• Government Council
• Supervising Agencies
• Plenary Session Commissions
• Council of Spokesmen
• Political Groups