Local elected officials are essential actors in public administration, but the office of public dignity comes with several duties and responsibilities that must be placed at the top of the decision-makers agenda in order to provide the community with good administration. Knowing them requires understanding the entire public administration system at the local level, the principles that govern it, the relations with other public authorities and citizens, as well as the powers exercised. The legal norms provide that mayors and local councilors function as authorities of the local public administration and resolve public affairs in communes, cities, and municipalities, while the County Council is constituted at the county level, having the role of coordinating the activity of the administrative-territorial unit within the county area. The legislation in the field provides unsatisfactory requirements for a candidate to obtain the status of local elected official and general regulations regarding the conditions for exercising the acquired mandates. The local elected official must be aware of the importance of the position held, and the following must emerge from the mandate: responsibility, efficient and effective representation, forward-looking social vision, and prioritization of the common good. Any elective community wants representatives at the level of public authority, connoisseurs and activists of collective needs, who faithfully serve the public interest at the expense of their own interest. However, it is well known that in exercising their powers, public authorities usually have a certain freedom of decision, a possibility of appreciation or, in other words, what is called discretionary power. Precisely for this reason, the numerical limitation of the mandates of local elected officials can lead to a strengthening of local administrative institutions, increasing their credibility and, above all, their efficiency. By limiting mandates, the aim is also to depoliticize the institutions subordinated to town halls and county councils. But as every cause has a resulting effect, and the effect in turn becomes the cause of another effect, so there is an essential relation between responsibility and liability. Thus, depending on the committed deed, the local elected officials are liable, as the case may be, administratively, civilly, or criminally, according to the law. These actors who hold key positions in local public administration and provide public services at the level of administrative-territorial units must know very well the commitment taken when taking the oath that gives legitimacy to the mandate and not be blinded by the prerogatives of public power. related to the function of public dignity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]