noun
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A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.
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The governing body of such a district.
Examples of municipality in a Sentence
The municipality owns its water-works and its electric-lighting plant.
Cairns became a municipality in 1885.
The municipality owns its watersupply system.
The government was vested in the council (1 30uXii) and people (8rl/20s), and administered by civil officers with Greek titles, the proedros (president), the grammateus (secretary), the archons, syndics and dekaprotoi (a fiscal council of ten), following the model of a Greek municipality under the Roman Empire.
The municipality owns and operates its water-works.
The municipality owns and operates its waterworks; the water supply is obtained from artesian wells.
In November he was elected a member of the municipality of Roye, but was expelled.
In the municipality the alcalde (mayor) was appointed by the governor-general, and the ayuntamiento (council) was controlled by the veto of the provincial governor and by the assembly of the province.
The municipality owns and operates the waterworks.
In July 1791 Camille appeared before the municipality of Paris as head of a deputation of petitioners for the deposition of the king.
The waterworks are owned by the municipality.
The municipality maintains an efficient forestry department.
Since 1876 each municipality has a council of twenty members to exercise control over its administration.
The electric-lighting plant is owned and operated by the municipality.
In 1820 the town was incorporated as the City of Jersey, but it remained a part of the township of Bergen until 1838, when it was reincorporated as a distinct municipality.
There are a number of grey and blue limestone quarries, one of which is owned and operated by the municipality.
The municipality maintains an electric tram service.
Pop. of the municipality (1900), 2 9,33 1, a large percentage being summer residents, as the census was taken late in December; (1902, municipal census), 18, 373.
As a municipality covers a large extent of country, the population given is larger than that of the urban parishes, and is therefore not strictly correct according to European practice.
During the first half of the 13th century, when the university of Paris was plunged in angry feuds with the municipality, feuds which even led at one time (1229) to the flight of the students in a body, the friars established teachers in their convents in Paris.
The municipality owns and operates the electriclighting plant.
Cobar is a municipality, as also is the adjacent township of Gladstone, with a mining population.
The town is governed by a municipality, which since 1903 has acquired control of the sanitary service, water supply, electric lighting and tramways.
The waterworks and electric-lighting plant are owned and operated by the municipality.
There they heard John take the oath to the ` Commune ' like a French king or lord; and then London for the first time had a municipality of her own."
In January 1790 he returned to Montpellier, was elected a member of the municipality, was one of the founders of the Jacobin club in that city, and on the flight of Louis XVI.
Re-elected to the Convention, he opposed the pretensions of the Commune and the proposed grant of money to the municipality of Paris by the state.
While thus occupied he was arrested by the municipality of Sedan; he was set free after a few days' detention.
Popular acclamation made him an object of devotion; the municipality erected a noble shrine for his body, and his fame as saint and traveller had spread far and wide before the middle of the century, but it was not till four centuries later (1755) that the papal authority formally sanctioned his beatification.
Cooktown became a municipality in 1876.
Noumea alone has (since 1879) a municipality, other localities being administered by commissions.
Accra, the first town in the Gold Coast colony to be raised (July 1, 1896) to the rank of a municipality, is governed by a town council with power to raise and spend money.
The long struggle between the municipality and the Austrian ministry arising out of the refusal to sanction the election (1895) of Dr Lueger, the anti-Semitic leader and champion, recalls in some respects the Wilkes incident in London.
In spite of shortsighted parsimony in the matter of schools, &c., and increased resources through the allocation to the municipality of a certain percentage of new state and provincial taxation, their anti-Semitic successors have been unable to avoid a deficit, and have been obliged to increase the rates.
Inverell became a municipality in 1872.
The town is governed by a municipality (created in 1893) with a mayor and councillors, the large majority being elective.
The municipality owns and operates the water-works, electric-lighting plant and gas plant.
In 1311, the two burgomasters, now chiefs of the municipality, take the place of the royal Schultheiss.
In 1903 the adjacent municipality of Mapandan (pop. in 1903, 4198) was annexed to Magaldán.
The water-works are owned and operated by the municipality.
There is a regular water supply worked by the municipality.
The general illuminant is electricity, and both electrical and gas services are owned by the municipality.
The tramway service, opened in 1891, was taken over by the municipality in 1904.
In 1908 the rateable value of the municipality was £36,466,644, the rate 21d.
It became a municipality in 1855 and a city in 1871.
The municipality owns and operates the waterworks, a natural gas plant, and an electric lighting plant.
One was a Roman colonia (municipality of Roman citizens, self-governing) situated on the hill near the present Fourvieres (Forum vetus)..
The municipality owns and operates the gas and electric-lighting plants and the water works (the watersupply being derived from natural ponds, some of which are outside the city limits), and owns and leases (to the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad) a railway extending (10.3 m.) to Westfield, Mass.
Close to the cathedral lies the house of the poet Gleim (q.v.), since 1899 the property of the municipality and converted into a museum.
It is governed by an active municipality, whose revenue and expenditure have rapidly increased.