A coterminous municipality,
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/ref> or a coterminous town-village, is a form of local government
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in some U.S. state
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s in which a municipality
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and one or more civil township
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s are coterminous and have partial or complete consolidation of their government functions. A term used for the formation of such a local government is "township and municipal consolidation." This form of local government is distinct from a municipality coterminous with a higher level of government, which is called a consolidated city-county
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or a variation of that term.
Connecticut
The entire area of Connecticut is divided into towns
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. Cities and boroughs
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are within town areas, and their governments may or may not be consolidated with those of the towns in which they are located.[Individual State Descriptions: 2012, 2012 Census of Governments](_blank)
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Illinois
The Illinois Township Code includes provisions for a municipality coextensive with a township. Such a municipality is known variously as a coterminous city and a coterminous municipality, and the township is called a coterminous township; the term "consolidated city-township" does not appear in either the Township Code or the Municipal Code. The Township Code provides for the discontinuance of township organization within such a coterminous municipality.
New York
In New York, such a local government is called a coterminous town-village and is governed under Article 17 of the New York Village Law.New York Village Law, § 17-1700
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Five towns are coterminous with their single village: Green Island in Albany County; East Rochester in Monroe County Monroe County may refer to seventeen counties in the United States, all named for James Monroe:
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* Monroe County, Florida
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; and Scarsdale, Harrison
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* Harrison family of Virginia, United States
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In Australia:
* Harrison, Australian Capital Territory, suburb in the Canberra district of Gungahlin
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and Mount Kisco
Mount Kisco is a village and town in Westchester County, New York, United States. The town of Mount Kisco is coterminous with the village. The population was 10,959 at the 2020 United States census over 10,877 at the 2010 census.
It serves as a ...
in Westchester County
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. When such an entity is formed, officials from either unit of government may serve in both village and town governments simultaneously. A referendum is held to decide whether residents prefer a village-style or town-style government, which will then function primarily as a village or town but will perform some of the functions of the other form. Green Island has both a Village and a Town government, but the Town government's functions are limited. The rest have unified Town/Village governments.
There are also two cases wherein a single village is nearly coterminous with a town, but the town and the village have separate governments: the Village of Woodbury Woodbury may refer to:
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Antarctica
*Woodbury Glacier, a glacier on Graham Land, British Antarctic Territory
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* Woodbury, Tasmania, a locality in Australia
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within the Town of Woodbury, and the Village of Kiryas Joel within the recently formed Town of Palm Tree
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. Both cases are in Orange County
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*Orange County, California, part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area
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*Orange County, Florida, containing Orlando
*Orange County, Indiana
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.
See also
* Charter township
A charter township is a form of local government in the U.S. state of Michigan. Townships in Michigan are organized governments. A charter township has been granted a charter, which allows it certain rights and responsibilities of home rule that ...
* Paper township
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