Municipal rules and guidelines

The administrative regulations are a key governance tool for a municipality’s administration and operations, concerning the internal administration and activities of the municipality. Every municipality and joint municipal authority must have administrative regulations, the content of which is defined by Section 90 of the Municipal Act (410/2015). The administrative regulations determine the division of tasks and powers of the municipal authorities. The provisions of the administrative regulations are decided by the municipal council. The administrative regulations also bind the council, which cannot deviate from their provisions except by amending the regulations.

Link to the administrative regulation in Finnish (effective 1 June 2025)

You can familiarize yourself with the municipal regulations through the following links in Finnish:

Nuorisovaltuuston toimintasääntö (Youth Council Rules of Procedure)

Vanhus- ja vammaisneuvoston toimintasääntö (Rules of Procedure for the Elderly and Disability Council)

Tervola-neuvoston toimintasääntö (Rules of Procedure of the Tervola Council)

Municipal guidelines in Finnish

Hankintaohje (Procurement Guideline)

Konserniohje (Group Guidelines)

Projektiohjeet (Project Guidelines)

Other guidelines in Finnish

Laskutusohje Tervolan kuntaa laskuttaville (Billing instructions for invoicing the municipality of Tervola PDF) / word

Meri-Lapin kotoutumisohjelma 2025 alkaen (Sea-Lapland Integration Program starting from 2025 in Finnish)

Tuulivoimastrategia (Wind Power Strategy in Finnish)

You can explore municipal rates and fees through the provided links in Finnish:

• Asiakirjojen lunastamisesta perittävät maksut (Fees charged for the redemption of documents)
• Maankäyttö- ja rakennuslain sekä -asetuksen viranomaistehtäviä koskeva maksutaksa 1.12.2024 alkaen (Fee schedule for authority tasks under the Land Use and Building Act and Decree from 1 December 2024)
• Maksut rakentamislain viranomaistehtävissä (rakennusvalvontaviranomainen) 1.2.2025 alkaen (Fees for construction loan administrative tasks (building supervision authority) from 1 February 2025)

Section 84 of the Municipal Act regulates the disclosure of conflicts of interest.

According to the provision, municipal elected officials and officeholders are required to submit a conflict of interest statement regarding their management positions and offices of trust in business enterprises and other organizations, their significant assets, as well as other conflicts of interest that may be relevant to the performance of their trust and official duties.

The obligation to disclose conflicts of interest applies to the following officials and trustees:

• members and deputy members of the municipal board and its subordinate committee
• members and deputy members of the body responsible for the tasks referred to in the Land Use and Building Act and its subordinate section (Technical Committee in the municipality of Tervola)
• the chairperson and vice-chairpersons of the council, committee, and subcommittee
• municipal manager
• the presenter of the municipal board, committee, and subcommittee

The notification must be made within two months of the person being appointed to the position. The person must also promptly report any changes in their affiliations.

The conflict-of-interest notification is made to the audit committee, which oversees compliance with the reporting obligation and may bring the notifications to the attention of the council. If necessary, the audit committee may urge the person required to report to submit a new notification or to complete an already submitted notification.

The municipality must maintain a register of conflicts of interest in a public information network, unless otherwise provided by confidentiality regulations. When a term of office or position subject to the reporting obligation ends, the information concerning the individual must be removed from the register and the information network.

The audit committee reviews declarations of conflicts of interest at its meetings as needed.

Links

• Tervola’s affiliation notifications

This accessibility statement applies to the service www.tervola.fi and was prepared/updated on 21.09.2020. The service is subject to the Act on the Provision of Digital Services, which requires that public online services must be accessible.

The accessibility of the service has been assessed by an external expert organization.

State of digital service accessibility

Partially meets accessibility requirements

Not available content

1. The website is not yet fully compliant with the requirements

• Building and environmental services permit applications (pdf): The building and environmental services permit applications of the municipality of Tervola are not accessible. The layouts, navigation, alternative texts, and table structures of the permit applications are incomplete. The municipality of Tervola aims to acquire an electronic permit system during 2020-2021. Accessibility requirements that are not met
  • 1.1.1 Non-textual content
  • 1.3.1 Information and relationships
  • 1.3.2 Order affecting the meaning
  • 1.2.3 Audio description or media equivalent (recorded)
• Ongoing planning projects of technical services (pdf): The materials for Tervola municipality’s planning projects have been provided by planning consultants. There are shortcomings in the accessibility of the materials, for example in layouts, headings, alternative texts, and table structures. Several planning projects are coming to an end, and accessibility will be taken into account in the materials of upcoming projects. Accessibility requirements that are not met
  • 1.1.1 Non-textual content
  • 1.2.3 Audio description or media equivalent (recorded)
  • 1.3.2 Order affecting the meaning
  • 1.3.1 Information and relationships
  • 1.4.1 Use of colors
  • 1.4.3 Contrast (minimum)
• Applications for early childhood education and teaching (pdf): There are deficiencies in the readability, navigation, and table structures of the early childhood education and teaching applications of the municipality of Tervola. Accessibility requirements that are not met
  • 1.3.2 Order affecting the meaning
  • 1.3.1 Information and relationships
• Tervolalainen magazines (pdf): Publications of the Tervola information magazine from 2018-2020 are not accessible. The files are printed pdf documents from which information cannot be obtained. Accessibility requirements that are not met
  • 1.3.1 Information and relationships
  • 1.3.2 Order affecting the meaning
• Privacy statements of the municipality of Tervola (pdf): There are accessibility deficiencies in the privacy statements of the municipality of Tervola, for example in table structure and reading order. Accessibility requirements that are not met
  • 1.3.1 Information and relationships
  • 1.3.2 Order affecting the meaning
• Social and health service forms (pdf): The accessibility of social and health service forms is insufficient, for example in terms of table structures and reading order. Accessibility requirements that are not met
  • 1.3.1 Information and relationships
  • 1.3.2 Order affecting the meaning

2. Disproportionate burden

It is not possible to access the agendas and minutes of the municipal bodies in the KT-web publishing platform purchased from a service provider outside the municipality of Tervola in an accessible manner through the service. The municipality of Tervola aims to renew the publishing platform in the coming years. Agendas and minutes on the publishing platform can be obtained in an accessible format via email at tervolan.kunta@tervola.fi.

3. Falls outside the scope of legislation

• content used temporarily in teaching within a limited group
• content published by users or other external parties on the service, which is not produced, funded, or controlled by the service provider itself
• maps that are not intended for navigation use (e.g., weather or topographic maps)
• office program files (e.g., doc, pdf, odt) that were published before 23 September 2018
• video or audio recordings that were published before 23 September 2020

If a customer needs a file, map, or other document on the Tervola municipality website that is inaccessible, they can contact via email at tervolan.kunta@tervola.fi.

Have you noticed an accessibility issue in our digital service?

Contact us and we will do our best to fix the issue.

By Email

tervolan.kunta@tervola.fi

Other

Feedback can also be given by calling the Tervola municipal information service at +358 40 124 2411.

Supervisory authority

If you notice accessibility issues on the site, please provide feedback to us, the site administrators, first. It may take up to 14 days to receive a response. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive or do not receive a response within two weeks, you can make a report to the Regional State Administrative Agency of Southern Finland. The website of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland provides detailed information on how to make a notification and how the matter is handled.

Contact information of the supervisory authority:

Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland
Accessibility Supervision Unit
www.saavutettavuusvaatimukset.fi
saavutettavuus(at)avi.fi
Telephone switchboard 0295 016 000