Legal provisions for direct democracy at the local level

(Optionalreferendum)

Referendum Act,

Article 2: For localreferendum, this Act shall apply to the following

matters:

1. Reference of the lawsand regulations on local autonomy.

2. Initiative of thelegislative principles for the laws and

regulations on localautonomy

3. Initiative or referenceof the important policies regarding

the local autonomy.

http://law.moj.gov.tw/Eng/LawClass/LawAllPara.aspx?PCode=D0020050

(Recall)

Article80 of the Civil Servants Election And Recall Act: The period for collection ofjoint signatures referred to in Paragraph Two of the preceding Article is asbelow:
1. 30 days for recall of a member of the Legislative Yuan, municipal councilor,the governor of a municipality or the governor of a county (city).
2. 20 days for recall of a county (city) councilor or the chief of a township(city).
3. 10 days for recall of a representative of a township (city) congress or thechief of a village (borough).
The calculation of the period referred to in the preceding Paragraph shallcommence from the next day upon receiving the format of the list of jointsigners.
The leading proposers of recall shall submit 2 duplicated copies of the list ofjoint signers to the election commission within the period prescribed inParagraph One; overdue submission will not be accepted.
http://engweb.cec.gov.tw/files/11-1030-3862.php

(Citizen’sInitiative)

Article123 of the Constitution: The people of the hsien shall, in accordance with law,exercise the rights of  initiative andreferendum in matters within the sphere of hsien self-government, and shall, inaccordance with law, exercise the rights of election and recall of themagistrate and other hsien self-government officials http://english.president.gov.tw/Default.aspx?tabid=1107