Editing Nicosia (section)

===Nicosia Municipality===
{{see also|List of mayors of Nicosia Municipality}}
[[File:NICOSIA, 11 AUGUST, 2011 114.jpg|thumb|upright|left|The old building of the Nicosia Municipality at [[Eleftheria square|Eleftheria Square]]]]
The [[Nicosia Municipality]] is responsible for all the municipal duties within the walled city and the immediately adjacent areas. The Constitution states that various main government buildings and headquarters must be situated within the Nicosia municipal boundaries.<ref>e.g. Constitution of Cyprus Article 153, s2 – "The seat of the High Court shall be in the capital of the Republic."</ref> However separate municipalities are prescribed by the constitution for in the five largest towns, including Nicosia,<ref>Constitution of Cyprus Article 173 – "Separate municipalities shall be created in the five largest towns of the Republic, that is to say, Nicosia, Limassol, Famagusta, Larnaca and Paphos by the Turkish inhabitants thereof"</ref> and in the case of Nicosia the separate administration was established in 1958. The Turkish Municipal Committees (Temporary Provisions) Law, 1959<ref>Law 1959 c3</ref> established a municipal authority run by a "Turkish Municipal Committee", defined as "the body of persons set up on or after the first day of July, 1958, in the towns of Nicosia, Limassol, Famagusta, Larnaca and Paphos by the Turkish inhabitants thereof for the purpose of performing municipal functions within the municipal limits of such towns".The "[[Nicosia Turkish Municipality]]", founded in 1958, carries out municipal duties in the northern and north-western part of city.<ref>Phoebe Koundouri, ''Water Resources Allocation: Policy and Socioeconomic Issues in Cyprus'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=f957ycdkGsMC&dq=%22is+responsible+for+all+the+municipal+duties+and%22&pg=PA70 p. 70.]</ref> The remaining areas, in the south and east of the city, are administered by [[Nicosia Municipality]].