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A specialized municipality is a type of municipal status used in the Canadian Province of Alberta. Alberta's specialized municipalities are unique local governments formed without the creation of special legislation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Alberta Municipal Affairs )〕 They typically allow for the coexistence of urban and rural areas within the jurisdiction of a single municipal government.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=A foundation for the future of Alberta's municipalities )〕 Specialized municipalities may be formed under the authority of Section 83 of the ''Municipal Government Act'' (''MGA'') under one of three of the following scenarios: * where the Minister of Alberta Municipal Affairs (AMA) is satisfied that the other incorporated statuses under the ''MGA'' do not meet the needs of the proposed municipality's residents; * to form a local government that, in the opinion of the Minister of AMA, will provide for the orderly development of the municipality in a similar fashion to the other incorporated statuses within the ''MGA'', including other previously incorporated specialized municipalities; * for any other circumstances that are deemed appropriate by the Minister of AMA.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Alberta Queen's Printer )〕 Applications for specialized municipality status are approved via orders in council made by the Lieutenant Governor in Council under recommendation from the Minister of AMA.〔 Alberta has five specialized municipalities that had a cumulative population of 178,598 and an average population of 35,720 in the 2011 Census.〔 Alberta's largest and smallest specialized municipalities are the Strathcona County and the Municipality of Jasper with populations of 92,490 and 4,051 respectively.〔 44 elected officials (four mayors, one reeve and 39 councillors) provide specialized municipality governance throughout the province.〔 == Branding == An order in council to incorporate any municipality must give the municipality an official name.〔 Of Alberta's five specialized municipalities, two of them have branded themselves simply as ''municipalities'' in their official names, while two others have branded themselves as ''counties''. The remaining specialized municipality has branded itself as a ''regional municipality''. The use of the ''regional municipality'' term in the official name of the one specialized municipality has led to a common belief that a ''regional municipality'' is its own separate municipal status type in Alberta, which is not the case. Meanwhile, the use of the ''county'' term in the official names of two specialized municipalities and 46 municipal districts has partially led to a common belief that a ''county'' also is its own separate municipal status type, which also is not the case. The other major contributor to this common belief is that a ''county'' was a former municipal status type in Alberta prior to the County Act being repealed in 1995. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of specialized municipalities in Alberta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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