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ขององค์กรปกครองส่วนท้องถิ่น

Public Enterprise Code and the Regulations on the Foundation Registration and Operation
2545 B.E Both acts do not prohibit the establishment of foundations and cooperatives by local

governments.

Overall, the operations of Local Public Enterprise by local governments are not very
common and the operations often have unique forms as a unit in the structure of local

governments. In a survey of all 684 local governments, the result shows that the majority of
the 389 local governments, representing 51.7 % do not operate Local Public Enterprise, but
there are 295 local governments, representing 39.2 % operate Local Public Enterprise.

Figure 2: the Number of Local Public Enterprise by Local Governments by the total and by
types of local organizations

Unit: %age (Number)

Source: Researcher

Although social enterprise initiatives of local governments in Thailand are not included in
the observation and data collection, it is found that some local governments operate

cooperatives but not for public services such as savings cooperatives. Only one operation of
the foundation for public services by a local government is found called Taksin Rayong
Foundation supported by the Rayong Provincial Administrative Organization for the

management of Taksin Rayong High School.

The establishment of Local Public Enterprise’s revenues by local governments is still in a
low proportion when compared to the revenues collected by local governments and the total

revenues of local governments. For example, 200 municipalities in 2013 had the revenues at
only 370.28 million baht from the utility and Local Public Enterprises when compared with the
revenues at 11,098.18 million baht collected by local governments.