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There are 87 RCMs and 17 TEs in Quebec, for a total of 104 MRCGs. 14 of the TEs correspond exactly (or very nearly correspond) to cities or urban agglomerations. [1] The only 3 exceptional cases are the TEs of Jamésie, Kativik and Eeyou Istchee. These TEs lie in Northern Quebec and cover large areas with many, mostly small, municipalities.
The first two digits are the code of the census division in which the municipality is located. For a list of all municipalities in Quebec together with their legal status, geographical code and date of incorporation, see List of the official municipalities of Québec, Institut de la Statistique du Québec (ISQ).
Quebec has a multi-tier system, with a layer of government between the municipality and the province, for example urban agglomeration, regional county municipality, or metropolitan community. Montreal , Quebec City , Longueuil , Sherbrooke , Saguenay , Lévis , Métis-sur-Mer and Grenville-sur-la-Rouge are divided into arrondissements (boroughs ...
A regional county municipality (French: Municipalité régionale de comté) in Quebec is a membership of numerous local municipalities, which in some cases can include unorganized territories, that was formed to administer certain services at the regional level such as waste management, public transit, land use planning and development, property assessment, etc. [14] Its council comprises the ...
Administrative regions are used to organize the delivery of provincial government services. They were also the basis of organization for regional conferences of elected officers (French: conférences régionales des élus, CRÉ), with the exception of the Montérégie and Nord-du-Québec regions, which each had three CRÉs or equivalent bodies.
Municipalities are governed primarily by the Code municipal du Québec (Municipal Code of Québec, R.S.Q. c. C-27.1), [1] whereas cities and towns are governed by the Loi sur les cités et villes (Cities and Towns Act, R.S.Q. c. C-19) [2] as well as (in the case of the older ones) various individual charters. [citation needed]
This is a list of municipalities that have the Quebec municipal type township municipality, an administrative division defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy. Township municipalities
in regional lists: for most regions, status of "ville" (V), or population of at least 5,000 in 2006 census, highlighted if 10,000 or over; for Montréal and Laval, all municipalities; for Nord-du-Québec, status of ville (V), or population at least 1,000 in 2006 census, highlighted if over 2,000; for Montérégie, population at least 10,000 in ...