Government thumb|right|View of Austre Bokn island Bokn Municipality is responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, welfare and other social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads and utilities. The municipality is governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor is indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council. The municipality is under the jurisdiction of the Haugaland og Sunnhordland District Court and the Gulating Court of Appeal.
Government thumb|right|View of Austre Bokn island Bokn Municipality is responsible for primary education (t.hrough 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, welfare and other social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads and utilities. The municipality is governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor is indirectly elected by a vote! of the municipal council. The municipality is under the jurisdiction of the Haugaland og Sunnhordland Dis?trict Court and the Gulating Court of Appeal.