local government

local government
City, county, or other governing body at a level smaller than a state. Local government has the greatest control over real property, zoning, and other local matters
+ Local government.
The government or administration of a particular locality; especially, the governmental authority of a municipal corporation, as a city or county, over its local and individual affairs, exercised in virtue of power delegated to it for that purpose by the general government of the state or nation.

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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