Municipalities typically comprise multiple towns, villages and settlements and are governed by a mayor who is elected by popular majority vote for a four-year term, and a municipal council which is elected using proportional representation for a four-year term.
[2] The council of a municipality is further permitted to create administrative subdivisions: mayoralties (kmetstvo), settlements (naseleno myasto), and wards or quarters (rayon).
[1] Mayoralties are overseen by elected mayors and typically comprises one or more villages or towns; they must contain a population of at least 250.
[2] Like municipalities themselves, mayoralties and wards are designated administrative-territorial units, as they have their own elected officials.
Settlements, however, are simply designated territorial units since their leaders are appointed.