Municipality of Bella Unión
The municipality of Bella Unión is one of the municipalities of Artigas Department, Uruguay, established on 13 September 2009. Its seat is the city of Bella Unión. It replaced the Autonomous and Elective Local Board of Bella Union created in 1994.
History
The Local Board of Bella Unión was established as Autonomous and Elective on 14 June 1994, obtaining wider powers than existing standard Local Boards. Until before the Laws of Municipalities were passed in late 2009 and early 2010, it was one of the three existing second level administrative subdivisions with certain level of autonomy and able to held local elections of its authorities. It comprised the territory of the Seventh Judicial Section of Artigas Department.In September 2009 it was converted to Municipality, following the provisions of the Municipalities Laws 18567 and 18653, with the powers of the new system but also keeping the powers obtained from the former system. It includes the constituencies identified by the series ICD, ICE and ICF, and keeps the same territory assigned to the Autonomous and Elective Local Board of Bella Unión.