A coterminous municipality,60 ILCS 1/Art. 27
/ref>60 ILCS 1/Art. 28
/ref> sometimes also known as a coterminous city60 ILCS 1/Art. 15
/ref> or a coterminous town-village, is a form of

local government Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of public administration within a particular sovereign state. This particular usage of the word government refers specifically to a level of administration that is both geographically-loc ...

in some U.S. states in which a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the ...

and one or more

civil township A civil township is a widely used unit of local government in the United States that is subordinate to a county, most often in the northern and midwestern parts of the country. The term town is used in New England, New York, and Wisconsin to ref ...

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

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or a variation of that term.

Connecticut

The entire area of Connecticut is divided into

towns A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an or ...

. Cities and

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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
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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
/ref> It is never called a consolidated city-township because New York's cities, as opposed to its villages, exist outside of town areas. Five towns are coterminous with their single village: Green Island in Albany County; East Rochester in

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; and Scarsdale, Harrison 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 ...

Westchester County Westchester County is located in the U.S. state of New York. It is the seventh most populous county in the State of New York and the most populous north of New York City. According to the 2020 United States Census, the county had a population ...

. 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 within the Town of Woodbury, and the Village of

Kiryas Joel Kiryas Joel ( yi, קרית יואל, Kiryas Yoyel, ; often locally abbreviated as KJ) is a village coterminous with the Town of Palm Tree in Orange County, New York, United States. The village shares one government with the Town. The vast major ...

within the recently formed Town of

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. Both cases are in Orange County.

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