Editing District (section)

===Austria===
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In [[Austria]], the word {{lang|de|Bezirk}} is used with different meanings in three different contexts:

* Some of the tasks of the administrative branch of the national and regional governments are fulfilled by the 95 [[district (Austria)|district administrative offices]] ({{lang|de|Bezirkshauptmannschaften}}). The area a district administrative office is responsible for is often, although informally, called a district ({{lang|de|Bezirk}}). A number of [[statutory city (Austria)|statutory cities]], currently 15, are not served by any district administrative office. Their respective municipal bureaucracies handle the tasks normally performed by the district administrative office.
* The cities of [[Vienna]] and [[Graz]] are divided into municipal districts ({{lang|de|Stadtbezirke}}), assisting the respective municipal governments. In Vienna, the constituents of each district elect a district council ({{lang|de|Bezirksvertretung}}); the district council in turn elects a district chairperson ({{lang|de|Bezirksvorsteher}}). Although the city vests its districts with a limited amount of budgetary autonomy, district councils and chairpersons have little real responsibility. In particular, they do not legislate. Most of the [[districts of Vienna]] were independent municipalities at some point; district councils and chairpersons symbolize the town councils and mayors they used to have.
* From the point of view of the [[judiciary of Austria]], the country is subdivided into 115 judicial districts ({{lang|de|Gerichtsbezirke}}), each corresponding to one of the country's 115 lowest-level trial courts.