TOWN AND TOWNSHIP GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED STATES

Choose the correct option

1. road and bridge             [magazine, maintenance]

2.             [property, town] tax administration

3. fire and police             [property, protection]

4.              [emergency, legislature]medical services

5. land       [use, tax]planning and zoning

6. garbage collection and              [recycling, rural]

7. cemetery             [management, government]

8.            [levying, elections]administration

9.                [environmental, elected] protection

10. parks and recreation             [executive, facilities]

Open the brackets. Choose the correct tense form (Active or Passive)

Town and township government    (be) the oldest existing form of government continuing to serve in the United States. Brought to America in the 17th-century, townships                  (establish) as a pure democratic process to provide people with a direct voice in grassroots government. Today, 20 states      the town or township form of local government. In many rural areas, towns or townships      (be) the only unit of local government available to serve the basic government service needs of the community. Originally, most towns and townships in the Upper Midwest            (base) on the original surveying township of six mile by six mile squares (36 square miles), but natural and man-made boundaries (e.g., rivers and county lines), as well as annexation, and sparse population densities have caused some variation. In most states town and township governments generally       (have) jurisdiction over a distinct geographic area, outside of cities and villages.

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