State administration Brovars'kyi region

State administration Brovars'kyi region

A municipality is a primarily urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. The term municipality can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district.

The territory of a municipality may encompass

• only one populated place such as a city, town or village
• several of such places
• only parts of such places, sometimes boroughs of a city like the 34 municipalities of Santiago, Chile.

Municipalities may have the right to tax individuals and corporations with income tax, property tax and corporate income tax, but may also receive substantial funding from the state.

In Ukraine there are two types of municipalities (or rada — council): urban and rural. Both are types of lower administrative division in the country. Urban municipalities could be city or settlement (town). Cities always carry special status: national (two), oblast (at least one in each region), and raion (the rest). Urban municipalities often consist of several other smaller ones. Bigger cities are divided into number of city raions (districts). Rural municipalities are much smaller and may combine several villages and rural settlements (smaller villages).