A municipality is for ordinar a urban admienistrative diviesion haein corporate status an aften haes pouers o sel-guvernment. The term municipality is uised tae mean the guvernin body o a municipality.[1] A municipality is a general-purpose admienistrative subdiviesion, as fornent a special-purpose destrict. The term comes frae French "municipalité" an Laitin "municipalis".[2]