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Municipality
* All municipalities are public corporate entities.
* Many municipalities currently have ordinances that require cats to be kept indoors or on a leash
  - employ radar as a form of highway tax paid by unwary travelers
* Many municipalities have ordinances prohibiting or restricting burial
  - police or fire departments with their own dive rescue squads
  - impose sales and property taxes on business equipment and furniture
  - restrict smoking in areas under their jurisdiction
* Most municipalities have areas that can never be served by public sewage facilities
  - their own water and sewer utilities
  - obtain their water from ground-water sources
  - provide kindergartens, primary and secondary schools
* Municipalities also are general purpose governments
  - regulate through outright bans, zoning laws and ordinances
* Municipalities are a central pillar in delivery of social services and creation of jobs
  - concerned with community development and safety
  - directly under the administration of central government
  - divided into 'corregimientos'
  - gathering
  - mainly responsible for education and social service
* Municipalities are responsible for education
  - heat supply in other cities
  - the drinking water in their area
  - states
  - units of local self-government
  - urban areas
  - elect their own mayors and councils
  - generally provide basic services, including police, sanitation, and fire protection
* Municipalities have broad authority to establish public utilities
  - powers to enact police regulations
  - monitors
  - police departments, fire departments, and city or town jails
  - zones
  - often generate wood chips as a natural part of caring for trees
  - own public, subsidized hospitals
  - tend to be the main end-users of environmental technologies in almost all sectors
* Municipalities use census data to decide how to spend tax dollars
  - lake water for drinking supplies and disposal of sewage and other wastes
* Some municipalities do use pumps in low lying areas to move standing water and prevent flooding
  - employ a local police force
* Some municipalities have a bylaw forbidding or restricting the discharge of firearms
  - cameras stationed on light poles in high-crime districts
  - jointly manage their fire department
  - monitor surface water and wells, usually through local health departments
* Some municipalities use incineration to burn garbage and it can also generate heat and energy
  - wetlands as the final stage in treating waste from sewage treatment plants.
  * is indeed controversial. It's meaning is subject to change from one area to another. Municipalities in Germany, Australia, Japan and the US are 4 different entities. This is akin to listing Tokyo as a city because it metropolis since in most countries, a metropolis very large city instead of listing it as a prefecture since that is what the local meaning of metropolis is defined as.
  * This is what you are opposing. You seem to find it unnecessary to deal with the problem that things are put into categories which they do not belong to. The changes suggested would broaden the scope of the category to include places without their own administrative functions as well as the administrative divisions it already covers. Townships without their own local governments could correctly be included with the other towns and cities in a certain area. As it stands, if a community does not have it's own government structure, it can not be included with the other communities in that area. Municipality is based on political structure, settlements are based on geographic structure. You have provided no accepted evidence on how these changes would have a negative impact on the project. You have only stated these impacts exist without providing any explanation on what they are or how they would affect the project. You keep asking if we have not learned that some things should not be talked about on-wiki. Wiki-business should not be hidden from scrutiny except in matters of security and privacy
* is an urban area
  - given in the form of a municipality code
+ Colombia, Politics, Departments: Spanish-speaking countries
  * Colombia is divided into 32 departments and one capital district. The capital district is treated as a department. Departments are divided into municipalities. Municipalities are divided into 'corregimientos'. Each department has a local government with a governor and assembly directly elected to four-year terms. Each municipality is headed by a mayor and council. Each 'corregimiento' by an elected 'corregidor', or local leader.