Editing Germiston (section)

==Law and government==
===Government===
====Coats of arms====
* '''Municipal (1)'''
By 1931, the Germiston municipality had assumed a pseudo-heraldic coat of arms, depicting (1) buck in the veld, (2) a scene showing mineshafts, (3) a railway train in a landscape, and (4) a half-tented ox-wagon in a landscape, the quarters separated by a red cross. The motto was ''Salus populi suprema lex''.<ref name=cig>The arms were depicted on a [http://www.ngw.nl/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Category:UTC_South_African_town_arms cigarette card] issued in 1931.</ref>

* '''Municipal (2)'''
A proper coat of arms was granted by the [[College of Arms]] in August 1935. It was registered with the Transvaal Provincial Administration in August 1963<ref name=og>Transvaal ''Official Gazette'' 2400 (19 August 1963).</ref> and at the [[Bureau of Heraldry]] in February 1968.<ref name=boh>http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za{{dead link|date=January 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

The arms were: ''Gules, within two bendlets Or between two ox wagons Argent, three bezants'' (i.e. a red shield displaying three gold coins between two diagonal gold lines between two ox-wagons).

The crest was a rising falcon (representing Rand Airport); the supporters were two eland, each resting a foot on an heraldic fountain (a white and blue striped disc); the motto was ''Salus populi suprema lex''.