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Municipality, means the Nagar Panchayat or the Municipal Council, as the case may be, constituted under the provisions of this Act. [Manipur Municipalities Act, 1994 (43 of 1994), s. 2(34)]

--means the New Delhi Municipal Committee, the Cantonment Board or any other municipal body, other than the Corporation, established by or under any law for the time being in force in or any part of Delhi. [Delhi Police Act, 1978 (34 of 1978), s. 2(i)]

--the word 'Municipality' has been defined in Webster's New Dictionary as, 'a town, city or borough which has local self-government'. A Corporation or a Municipal Council or Nagar Panchayat is constituted on strength of population and the area of place where it is constituted namely rural or urban. But all the three are deemed to be municipality. A Municipal Corporation with a larger area is as much a municipality as a council with smaller area, Cantonment Board v. G. Venkataram Reddy, AIR 1995 SC 1210. [Constitution of India , Art. 243]

Municipality, shall have the meaning assigned to it by the Rajasthan Municipality Act, 1959 (38 of 1959) or any other municipal law for the time being in force. [The Rajasthan Land Revenue Act, 2003, s. 3(c)]

Municipality, the word 'Municipality' has been defined in Webster's New Dictionary as, 'a town, city or borough which has local self-government. In Black's Law Dictionary. It is extended to 'legally incorporated or duly authorized association of inhabitants of limited area for local governmental or other public purposes. A body politic created by the incorporation of the people of a prescribed locality invested with the subordinate powers of legislation to arrest in the civil government of the state and to regulate and administer local and internal affairs of the community'. Clause (e) of Art. 243P of Constitution of India defines Municipality to mean, 'an institution of self-government constituted under Art. 243Q, Cantonment Board, Secunderabad v. G. Venketram Reddy, AIR 1995 SC 1210. [See also Constitution of India, Art. 243Q]