CZECH REPUBLIC
LAW
ON COMMUNITIES (LOCAL GOVERNMENTS)
From April 12, 2000; 128/ 2000 Coll.
As amended: 273/2001 Coll.
As amended: 450/2001 Coll.
As amended: 320/2001 Coll.
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Chapter 4
Names of Communities, their parts, streets and public areas and numbering of buildings
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§ 29
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(2) In the Community inhabited by members of national minorities the name of the community, their parts, streets and public areas and buildings of state organs and self-governed territories are used also in the language of national minority, providing that according to the last census of population at least 10% of citizens declared belonging to this minority and if at least 40% of adult citizens declaring belonging to this minority requested so in a petition.
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Chapter V
SELF-GOVERNMENTS BODIES ITS COUNCILS
Committees
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§ 117
(3) Community, in which territory according to the last census of the population lives at least 10% of citizens declaring nationality other then Czech, creates a committee on issues of national minorities. Members of this committee are also representatives of the national minority, providing they received nomination from their association created according to special legal provisions; members of national minorities must make at least half of all the members of the committee.
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Source: Unofficial translation of http://www.mvcr.cz/sbirka/2000/sb038-00.pdf