Each type of local government is granted specific home rule powers by the New York State Constitution. Whether a municipality is defined as a borough, city, town, or village is determined not by population or land area, but rather on the form of government selected by the residents and approved by the New York State Legislature. Centers of population that are not incorporated and have no government or local services are designated hamlets. All of them have their own governments, sometimes with no paid employees, that provide local services. (The only boroughs, the five boroughs of New York City, have the same boundaries as their respective counties.) They are municipal corporations, chartered (created) by the New York State Legislature, as under the New York State Constitution the only body that can create governmental units is the state. The state is divided into boroughs, counties, cities, towns, and villages.
The administrative divisions of New York are the various units of government that provide local services in the U.S.
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