As a general term, Municipal government refers to local government operating at the level of a town or city level.
"Municipalities" consist of a group of people living in a defined area. Usually this will be an urban area, but surrounding rural areas may also be included. In most countries, municipalities of various sorts are special corporations defined under state law, and have specific rights and responsibilities.
A "government" (see also politics) consists of a set of people that have legal power over an area of land and the people that inhabit that land.
In the United States, "Municipal government" is the technical term used to describe local government at the level of the city. The remainder of this article gives details of these arrangements.
In the United States, cities are the level of local government below that of the county. U.S. cities are governed in one of 2 ways, Council-Manager government and Mayor-Council government.
The rights of a city include:
Municipal (another word for 'city') governments are usually administratively divided into several departments, depending on the size of the city. Though cities differ in the division of responsibility, the typical arrangement is to have the following departments handle the following roles:
Municipal Government in the United States
etc.
For more information on city government, the following organizations might be of interest: