municipal

Last year, Takoma Park in Maryland took a similar step when it allowed 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in municipal elections.

Criminal justice is quintessentially a local matter; policing, judging, and operating local jails are municipal endeavors.

But when this same chamber serves as Ferguson Municipal Court, a disproportionate number of the defendants are black.

The Ferguson municipal court canceled its August sessions because of the turmoil, but it is expected to resume in September.

The City Council appoints the municipal judge, currently Ron Brockmeyer, who is also white.

Public corporations are formed for governing the people and are often called municipal corporations.

If he be a Filipino, he is usually elected by vote of the vice-presidents (ex-mayors) and municipal councillors of the province.

In short, the governmental system adopted is intended to raise the native progressively from savagery to municipal life.

The proclamation embodying this Act permitted the temporary use of municipal lands, the seed supplied to be repaid after the crop.

State employees are within these acts in some states, and excluded in others, likewise municipal employees.