Subject: Re: Interprovincial municipality, ABSK
Date: Jun 26, 2003 @ 16:04
Author: L. A. Nadybal ("L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@...>)
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> Does anyone know of any other interjurisdictional municipality
anywhere else on
> earth?
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA

It might take a little research to determine if this fits, but
Alexandria VA a possible candidate. Part of it was formerly within
the District of Columbia, but got put back into VA in the mid 1800s
when Arlington county was founded. Thus, part of Alexandria may have
been in Arlington County. I waffle on that, because I'm not certain
when Alexandria incorporated or if Arlington county ended at the
portion of the Alexandria city limits that was formerly within the
District. The part of Alexandria that was never within the District
lies in Fairfax county, but I'm not certain if the portion of
Alexandria that lies within Fairfax county was ever incorporated or if
that incorporation made Fairfax county smaller by removing that
portion of Alexandria from the county territory. In any event,
Alexandria is a town lying across the border of two county areas that
used to formerly lie across the boundary between the District and VA.
It may be that the organized part of the city is only that part lying
in what was the District and that the mayor has no jurisdiction over
that part of town that lies within Fairfax county.

Another candidate might be one we discussed earlier at great length -
Bremerhaven, a part of which contains territory of Bremen. If the
city of Bremerhaven and the Burgermeister of Bremerhaven administers
that part of Bremen which is in the Bremerhaven harbor, then we would
have a similar situation to that which exists in Canada, not covering
the whole town, but a detached part of Bremen.

Then, not to be forgotten are Riezlern and Jungholz, Austria which are
towns administering what is as close to international shared
sovereignty as one can get without a condominium, between Germany and
Austria, at least for certain purposes (postal, customs & fiscal).