14-528: Kapasan is a city and a municipality in Chittaurgarh district in the Indian state of Rajasthan . Kapasan has a municipal board. It is a constituency of Rajasthan Legislative assembly. As of 2001 India census , Kapasan had a population of 18,705. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Kapasan has an average literacy rate of 63%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy
28-586: A constituency of Rajastahn Legislative Assembly. The town is well connected by road and is 40 km from Chattaurgarh and 78 km from Udaipur. It has a famous Ramdwara of Ram Snehi Sampraday. This article related to a location in Rajasthan is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it
42-400: A municipality has jurisdiction may encompass: Powers of municipalities range from virtual autonomy to complete subordination to the state . Municipalities may have the right to tax individuals and corporations with income tax , property tax , and corporate income tax , but may also receive substantial funding from the state. In some European countries, such as Germany, municipalities have
56-551: Is 75%, and female literacy is 51%. In Kapasan, 15% of the population is under 6 years of age. It is now also known as an industrial town. Kapasan is famous for the great shrine of Deewana Shah which is considered to be the second most famous shrine after Ajmer's Khwaza Moinuddin Chishti Dargah in Rajasthan . The town is located on Chittorgarh- Udaipur Section of NW Railway. It is falling in Chaittaurgarh district and
70-467: Is subordinate. The term municipality may also mean the governing body of a given municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district . The English word is derived from French municipalité , which in turn derives from the Latin municipalis , based on the word for social contract ( municipium ), referring originally to
84-687: Is the general term for the town council, or cabildo , of a municipality or, sometimes, as is often the case in Spain and Latin America , for the municipality itself. Ayuntamiento is mainly used in Spain; in Latin America alcaldía is also for municipal governing bodies, especially the executive ones, where the legislative body and the executive body are two separate entities. In Catalan -speaking parts of Spain, municipalities generally use
98-482: The viceroy , the ayuntamientos "became the institution representing the interests of the local and regional oligarchical groups then setting deep roots into their territories." The Spanish Constitution of 1812 called for the transformation of the ayuntamiento, previously dominated by elites, into a representative institution with elections. Article 310 called for the establishment of an ayuntamiento for all settlements with 1,000 inhabitants. The term ayuntamiento
112-566: The Catalan cognate, ajuntament , while Galician ones use the word concello , Astur-Leonese conceyu and Basque udaletxea . Since ayuntamiento is a metonym for the building in which the council meets, it also translates to "city/ town hall " in English. With the eighteenth-century Bourbon Reforms in New Spain , which created intendancies and weakened the power of
126-621: The Latin communities that supplied Rome with troops in exchange for their own incorporation into the Roman state (granting Roman citizenship to the inhabitants) while permitting the communities to retain their own local governments (a limited autonomy). A municipality can be any political jurisdiction , from a sovereign state such as the Principality of Monaco , to a small village such as West Hampton Dunes, New York . The territory over which
140-574: The Spanish term ayuntamiento , referring to a municipality's administration building, is extended via synecdoche to denote the municipality itself. In Moldova and Romania , both municipalities ( municipiu ; urban administrative units) and communes ( comună ; rural units) exist, and a commune may be part of a municipality. In many countries, comparable entities may exist with various names. Ayuntamiento Ayuntamiento ( Spanish pronunciation: [aʝuntaˈmjento] )
154-479: The community living in the area and the common interest. These include terms: The same terms "Gemeente" (Dutch) or "Gemeinde" (German) may be used for church congregations or parishes, for example, in the German and Dutch Protestant churches. In Greece, the word Δήμος ( demos ) is used, also meaning 'community'; the word is known in English from the compound democracy (rule of the people). In some countries,
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#1732790533583168-400: The constitutional right to supply public services through municipally-owned public utility companies . Terms cognate with "municipality", mostly referring to territory or political structure, are Spanish municipio (Spain) and municipalidad (Chile), Catalan municipi , Portuguese município . In many countries, terms cognate with "commune" are used, referring to
182-404: The term ayuntamiento is for the council (which refers to itself as the H. Ayuntamiento , or el Honorable Ayuntamiento ). Puerto Rican municipalities have a legislatura municipal . In Peru the term ayuntamiento is never used; instead, it is municipalidad , consejo provincial or consejo distrital (district council). Executive functions in most of these countries
196-515: Was often preceded by the word excelentísimo ("most excellent"), when referring to the council. This phrase is often abbreviated " Exc. Ay. ". Other names for ayuntamiento have been casa de cabildo , casa capitular , casa consistorial and casa del concejo . In Latin America several terms exist for the legislative bodies of municipalities. The term consejo is used in Argentina , Chile , Colombia , Costa Rica , and Peru . In Mexico
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