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Acoterminous municipality,[1][2] sometimes also known as acoterminous city[3] or acoterminous town-village,[4] is a form oflocal government in someU.S. states in which amunicipality and one or morecivil townships 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."[5] This form of local government is distinct from a municipality coterminous with a higher level of government, which is called aconsolidated city-county or a variation of that term.
The entire area of Connecticut is divided intotowns. Cities andboroughs are within town areas, and their governments may or may not be consolidated with those of the towns in which they are located.[6]
TheIllinois Township Code includes provisions for a municipality coextensive with a township. Such a municipality is known variously as a coterminous city[3] and a coterminous municipality,[1][2] and the township is called a coterminous township;[3] 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.[1][2]
In New York, such a local government is called a coterminous town-village[7] and is governed under Article 17 of theNew York Village Law.[8] It is never called a consolidated city-township because New York's cities, as opposed to its villages, exist outside of town areas.
Six[9] towns are coterminous with their single village:Green Island inAlbany County;East Rochester inMonroe County;Palm Tree inOrange County andScarsdale,Harrison andMount Kisco inWestchester County. When such an entity is formed, officials from either unit of government may serve in both village and town governments simultaneously.[10] 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.[7] 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.
Palm Tree, which is coterminous with the village ofKiryas Joel, is the only instance where the town and village have different names.
There are also two cases wherein a single village is nearly coterminous with a town: the Village ofWoodbury within the Town of Woodbury, and the Village ofTuxedo within the Town of Tuxedo. In the case of Woodbury, the village consists of Woodbury Election Districts 1 through 8 and 10 through 13, with District 9 being part of the neighboring Village ofHarriman.[11] In the case of Tuxedo, the village and the town have a unified government, although the town has more territory than the village (consisting of Election Districts 1, 2, and 4) due to the Village ofTuxedo Park also existing within the town (Election District 3).[12]