The Board of County Commissioners, the Sanitary Commission, the Planning and Zoning Board and other county official bodies use recording machines for all public business in order to prevent law suits and other misunderstandings about what actually happened at their meetings.

Until 1948 the Faroes had the official status of a Danish amt ( county ).

* Board of Chosen Freeholders, an elected county official in the state of New Jersey

The 1894 Act formed an official system of civil parishes, separated from the ecclesiastical parishes, to carry on some of these responsibilities ( others being transferred to the district / county councils ).

There are no longer official ' county towns '.

The county of Devon is also known as Devonshire, although this is not an official name and is not often used outside the county.

In Alberta, the county used to be a type of municipal status ; but this was changed to " municipal district " under the Municipal Government Act, when the County Act was repealed in the mid-1990s, at which time they were also permitted to retain the usage of county in their official names.

A significant number of people commute to the city every day, mostly from the surrounding Ilfov county, however official statistics regarding their numbers do not exist.

One of the county treasures is Glenveagh National Park ( formerly part of the Glenveagh Estate ), as yet ( March 2012 ) the only official national park anywhere in the Province of Ulster.

This region was long influenced by the O ' Rourke family of Dromahair, whose heraldic lion occupies the official county shield to this day.

In colloquial Canadian French, a riding is confusingly known as comté, i. e., " county ", as the electoral districts in Quebec were historically identical to its counties ; the official French term is circonscription.

In a few cases the earl was traditionally addressed by his family name, e. g. the " earl Warenne " ( in this case the practice may have arisen because these earls had little or no property in Surrey, their official county ).

# The official name of the county,

* County of London, a county of England from 1889 to 1965, the area equating to some official definitions of Inner London

The primary remaining official use of County Armagh is as a Lieutenancy area and the county retains a lord lieutenant who acts as representative of the British Monarch in the County.

In 1969 – 1971 the Royal Commission on the Constitution recommended that official sources properly refer to Cornwall as a Duchy and not merely a county.

Owned and maintained by the county, its official designation is the Big Chiques # 6 Bridge.

The last high sheriff ( or official for that matter ) of Windham County was Thomas W. White, who left office in 2000 due to the discontinuation of the county sheriff's departments in Connecticut.

The county recorder normally maintains the official record of all real estate transactions.

In principle, a sheriff is a legal official with responsibility for a county.

The term, from the Old English scīrgerefa, designated a royal official responsible for keeping the peace ( a " reeve ") throughout a shire or county on behalf of the king.

The sheriff is always a county official, and serves as the arm of the county court.

It was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999.

In October 1972 he resigned his seat to force a by-election in which he fought as a Democratic Labour candidate against the official party candidate.

In 1808, Concord was named the official seat of state government.

While the new ex-colonial states appeared to follow the blueprint of the idealized state-centralized government, territory enclosed by defined borders, and citizenry with defined rights -, as well as accessories such as a national flag, an anthem, a seat at the United Nations and an official economic policy, they were in actuality far weaker than the Western states they were modeled after.

Parliament has two meeting places, namely the Louise Weiss building in Strasbourg, France, which serves for twelve four-day plenary sessions per year and is the official seat, and the Espace Léopold () complex in Brussels, Belgium, the larger of the two, which serves for committee meetings, political groups and complementary plenary sessions.

* Episcopal see, the official seat of a bishop, often applied to the area over which he exercises authority

The pope's official seat or cathedral is the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, and his official residence is the Palace of the Vatican.

Sri Lanka is a republic and a unitary state which is governed by a semi-presidential system with its official seat of government in Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte, the capital.

While the official capital of Bolivia is Sucre and it is the seat of Justice, La Paz has more government departments, hence the " de facto " qualifier.

* The Presidential Palace in Warsaw, largest palace in Warsaw, the official seat of the President of the Republic of Poland since 1993, the first presidential tenant was Lech Wałęsa when he moved to the Palace from Belweder in 1994.

* Belweder in Warsaw, was the official seat of the President until 1993, currently owned by the Office of the President as the official residence of the President and is used by the President and the Government for ceremonial purposes.

That summer, Jin Emperor Xuānzōng ( 宣宗 ) abandoned the central capital and moved the government to the " southern capital " of Kaifeng, making it the official seat of Jin Dynasty power.

Despite this exclusion, members of the commons must still express their loyalty to the monarch and defer to her authority, as the Oath of Allegiance must be recited by all new parliamentarians before they may take their seat, and the official opposition is traditionally dubbed as Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.

The civil service and examination system allowed for greater meritocracy, social mobility, and equality in competition for those wishing to attain an official seat in government.

It is Benin's second-largest city, and although Porto-Novo is the official capital, the city of Cotonou is not only larger but also more important, culturally and politically: Cotonou is the seat of government.

The Auberge de Castille et Leon, formerly the official seat of the Knights of Malta of the Langue of Castille, Léon and Portugal, is now the office of the Prime Minister of Malta.

The Auberge de Castille was the official seat of the knights of the Langue of Castille, León and Portugal – one of the most powerful of the Order, its Head being the Grand Chancellor.

Philip emerged victorious, after having sent his agent William Nogaret to arrest Boniface at Anagni, when the French archbishop Bertrand de Goth was elected pope as Clement V and the official seat of the papacy moved to Avignon, an enclave surrounded by French territories.

Hanson also failed to win a seat in the New South Wales Legislative Council at the 2003 state election, where she ran as an independent, with the support of the official One Nation party.

The site of the new county seat was chosen at this meeting and named Langdon after Robert Bruce Langdon of Minnesota and official with the Great Northern Railroad.

It was not until 1845, however, that the official name of Marion was sanctioned as the county seat by the state legislature.

There was disagreement over the site-the " westerners " wanted Rolla, and the " easterners " wanted Dillon, so the General Assembly did not legally declare Rolla to be the official county seat until 1861.