 Municipal authority in TNOs is exercised directly by the MRC to which they belong (or the KRG, as the case may be).In addition to local municipalities, there are two other kinds of administrative entity at the local level which are not general features of municipal organization in Quebec, but which occur in a limited number of areas, especially urban ones, and retain some features of previous states of municipal organization in those areas.These are the borough (or "arrondissement"), which is submunicipal, and the agglomeration ("agglomération"), which may group together a number of local municipalities.