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The Porto City Hall, more specifically The Câmara Municipal do Porto, is the location of the city council of Porto, Portugal. It is a well known building in the Bolhao neighborhood. The street address is Rua do Clube dos Fenianos 5, 4000-407 Porto. It is also at the northern most point of Praça General Humberto Delgado. The building is a large and imposing structure built of granite. The street next to the building is named after the Clube Fenianos Portuenses. The hours of operation are from 9am to 5pm, Monday through Saturday. No hours are listed for Sundays. The city maintains its own website located at cm-porto.pt. In Portugal, a câmara municipal is the executive branch of a municipality. The term can also refer to the city hall. However, the city hall is properly called the Paços do Concelho. Members of a câmara are known as vereadores. Vereadores are elected by the D'Hondt method. They are also paid. The number of vereadores is normally between 5 and 13, with the exceptions of Porto and Lisbon. The president of a municipal chamber is the president of the most voted list. A municipal chamber is above a parish council. The legislative branch is the Assembleia Municipal. The various sections include the executive, the meetings and minutes of the council, and the Municipal Assembly, which defines its membership, powers and working groups. Other sections include municipal councils of tourism, culture and economy and education and security and youth and the environment and the various community councils of Porto. The website also mentions a Provedor do Munícipe, and municipal enterprises: Ágora, Águas e Energia do Porto, Domus Social, GO Porto, Porto Ambiente and Porto Vivo, SRU. The website also mentions the Municipal Police and the Regimento de Sapadores Bombeiros and civil protection. As quick links, the website mentions the Bolhão Market, the Porto Museum, the Municipal Theater and the M Municipal Gallery.