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Local government means city or county government. Local government provides many local services such as police, road maintenance, street lights, courts and jails, schools, fire protection ,water works, sewers, animal control, libraries, sanitation, public records keeping, social relief services and trash disposal and parks and recreation. States usually limits the kinds of taxes that local government can levy. The usually collect taxes on real estate and personal property such as cars. They often collect a sales tax and special taxes on restaurants and hotels. They often levy taxes on utilities and pets.
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What are the two main forms of general-purpose local government in the US?
counties and municipalities
What is an accurate statement about local government?
Local government is loosely defined as a public organization authorized to administer and decide a limited range of public policies. The local government is at the bottom of the government food chain.
What do the majority of the states have as a level of local government?
County is local government
Approxroximateley how many state and local governments exist in the united state?
The 1997 Census of Government says it best... "There were 87,504 governmental units in the United States as of June 1997. In addition to the Federal Government and the 50 state governments, there were 87,453 units of local government. Of these, 39,044 are general purpose local governments - 3,043 county governments and 36,001 subcounty general purpose governments, including 13,726 school distict governments and 34,683 special district governments."
What does Cardiff local government do?
Local government collects local taxes, it provides local services such as the emergency, social, housing and medical services
A form of local government organized only to provide transportation is called a what government?
special-purpose
What refers to monies the national government gives to state or local government for some designed purpose?
Federal grants
What refers to monies the national government gives to state or local government for some designated purpose?
Federal grants
What purpose of government is passing a bond issue to fund local libraries?
public services
What are the two main forms of general-purpose local government in the US?
counties and municipalities
What form of local government serves a specific group of people for a specific purpose?
Special District
What form of local government serves a specific groups of people for a specific purpose?
Special District
What is the definition of special purpose district?
›Special-Purpose Districts is a type of local government created for a single job or single group of tasks.
What is the purpose of the custom house of Ireland?
The Custom House in Dublin is now used as the base for the Irish government's Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.
What is L.G.U?
Local Government Unit.
What is difference between local government and local self government?
The difference between local government and local self government is that local government has a more limited scope of power. Local self government is able to make more decisions.
What is the difference between local government in America and local government in Britain?
Local government in the United states is less directly answerable to the national government than is local government in Britain.
