Montreal borough
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The city of Montreal is divided into 27 boroughs (in French, arrondissements), each with a mayor and council.
Powers
The borough council is responsible for:
- Fire prevention
- Removal of household waste and residual materials
- Funding of community
- Social and local economic development agencies
- Planning and management of parks and recreational
- Cultural and sports facilities, organization of recreational sports and sociocultural activities
- Maintaining local roads
- Issuing permits
- Public consultations for amendments to city planning bylaws
- Public consultations and dissemination of information to the public
- Land use planning and borough development.
List of Montreal boroughs
- Ahuntsic-Cartierville
- Anjou
- Beaconsfield—Baie-d'Urfé
- Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
- Côte Saint-Luc—Hampstead—Montreal West
- Dollard-Des Ormeaux—Roxboro
- Dorval—L'Île-Dorval
- Kirkland
- Lachine
- LaSalle
- L'Île-Bizard—Sainte-Geneviève—Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue
- Mercier—Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
- Montreal North (Montréal-Nord)
- Mount Royal (Mont-Royal)
- Outremont
- Pierrefonds-Senneville
- Le Plateau-Mont-Royal
- Pointe-Claire
- Rivière-des-Prairies—Pointe-aux-Trembles—Montréal-Est
- Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie
- Saint-Laurent
- Saint Leonard (Saint-Léonard)
- Le Sud-Ouest
- Verdun
- Ville-Marie
- Villeray—Saint-Michel—Parc-Extension
- Westmount
Boroughs or parts of boroughs listed in italics are former municipalities that have voted to return to being independent, effective in 2006. In cases where a borough contains parts that voted to stay and others that voted to go, it is unclear how the remaining areas will be reorganized.
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