Municipalities of the Haute-Garonne department

This dataset offers a list of the 586 municipalities that make up the department of Haute-Garonne. * * * **Useful link:** [Identifiers of local and regional authorities and their institutions](https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/identifiants-des-collectivites-territoriales-et-leurs-etablissements/), on the website [data.gouv.fr](https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/), based on an approach followed by [Datactivist]. * * * **Definition of “commune” on the site of the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Insee):** smallest French administrative subdivision but it is also the oldest, since it succeeded the towns and parishes of the Middle Ages. It was instituted in 1789 before the beginning of autonomy with the Act of 5 April 1884, a real communal charter. The mayor is the executive of the municipality he represents and manages the budget. He is the employer of municipal staff and exercises local skills (schools, urban planning, social action, roads, school transport, household garbage collection, sanitation, etc.). He is also an agent of the State for the functions of civil status, public order, organisation of elections and the issuance of statutory titles.