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municipal corporation

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noun

  1. a city, town, village, etc., that operates under a corporate charter granted by the state.


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"Identification of next of kin is being done with the help of railway officials, Odisha police, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation officials and Aiims staff," he added.

From BBC • Jul. 5, 2023

The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation introduced GPS-enabled smartwatches for its sanitation workers in 2019.

From Salon • May 12, 2022

Raja Iqbal Singh, mayor of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation which is ruled by the BJP, said authorities were only bringing down “illegal buildings that have encroached onto the roads.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2022

This year, citizens are forbidden from visiting such pandals and the city’s civic body, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, suggested that only 10 people, preferably fully vaccinated, should accompany the idol for immersion.

From Reuters • Sep. 9, 2021

In most of the "corporation boroughs" the franchise was restricted exclusively to freemen of the borough, and to the self-elected non-resident persons who composed the governing body before the Municipal Corporation Act of 1835.

From The Rise of the Democracy by Clayton, Joseph