Administrative Divisions of Quebec - Local Level

Local Level

Main article: Local government in Quebec See also: Types of municipalities in Quebec

The primary level of local organization is the "local municipality" or municipalité locale, although this term groups together numerous more specific legal designations such as ville ("city" or "town"), municipalité ("municipality"), village ("village"), paroisse ("parish"), canton ("township") and, strictly speaking incorrectly, village nordique ("northern village"), village cri ("Cree village") or village naskapi ("Naskapi village"). Local municipalities have authority over most local government matters.

Some areas are not part of any local municipality. These are known as unorganized territories or TNOs (territoires non-organisés). Municipal authority in TNOs is exercised directly by the MRC to which they belong (or the KRG, as the case may be).

In addition to local municipalities, there are two other kinds of administrative entity at the local level which are not general features of municipal organization in Quebec, but which occur in a limited number of areas, especially urban ones, and retain some features of previous states of municipal organization in those areas. These are the borough (or arrondissement), which is submunicipal, and the agglomeration (agglomération), which may group together a number of local municipalities.

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