3. The territory governed by this Code is divided into county municipalities and regional county municipalities, whose letters patent have been issued and published in accordance with Chapter I of Title II of the Act respecting land use planning and development (chapter A-19.1).
County municipalities and regional county municipalities may include rural and village municipalities; the regional county municipalities to which letters patent have been issued under section 166 of the Act respecting land use planning and development may also include city or town municipalities not being members of an urban community, and municipalities incorporated under the Act respecting municipal territorial organization (chapter O-9) and governed by the Cities and Towns Act (chapter C-19).
M.C. 1916, a. 3; 1979, c. 51, s. 247; 1982, c. 2, s. 2; 1988, c. 19, s. 241; 1990, c. 85, s. 122.