Government of Baghdad

[1] Much of the structure predates the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but officials' powers were originally limited to managing the top-down distribution of governmental services.

[2] The Coalition Provisional Authority's Transitional Administrative Law (TAL) – specifically CPA Order 71 – and the Provincial Powers Law have since changed their responsibilities remarkably, creating a degree of federalism that didn't exist during the Saddam Hussein era.

The Constitution alone does not determine Baghdad's government because it is vague and contains gaps and does not lay out the structures in detail.

Pre-constitution legislation dating back to 1964 and ad hoc measures that have become custom also determine this structure.

The deputy governor for rural services oversees these outlying areas, which surround the city from Taji in the north to Mahmudiyah in the south.

In practice, local governments collect taxes and fees only on an extremely limited basis.

Neighborhood councils in the Rusafa kati’, for example, oversee generators and charge residents for the electricity they provide.

Baghdad has nine kati': Rusafa, Adhamiyah, Thawra (Sadr City), 7 Nissan, Karadah, Karkh, Kadhimiyah, Mansour, and Al Rashid.

However, Baghdad qa’im makams have significantly fewer restrictions than those in qa'das because they are not constrained by CPA Order 71.

Their duties include: A hayy is an administrative territorial entity of the Amanat that is similar to a district in a large city.

Many of Baghdad's 94 hays have evolved different boundaries from government and service bodies on the same level.

[2][9] The Amanat is Baghdad's public works department or city hall with a concentration in infrastructure.

They maintain the city's distribution systems and perform other administrative tasks such as governing water, sewage, roads, public lands and zoning.

This typically limits them to maintaining existing infrastructure and performing low-level improvements such as landscaping or street cleaning.