Communal section
The ""communal section"" (formerly called ""rural section""[1]) is the smallest administrative division in Haiti. It has administrative and financial autonomy. There are 570 communal sections.
Operation
It is headed by an executive body, the CASEC (Board of Communal Section) and a deliberative body, ASEC (Assembly of the Communal Section).
These two institutions are aided by CDSC (the Development Council of the Communal Section).
Within each, there are cities or neighborhoods, communities, homes, lakou with sometimes difficult to grasp distinctions.
