Each city, town, and village in North Carolina has its own particular form of government, set out in the municipal charter. “Form of government,” as used in the webpage, includes the following characteristics of each city, town, or village: 1. The corporate name. 2. Whether the corporation is a city, town, or village. 3. The name of the governing board. 4. The size of the governing board. 5. The terms of office of governing board members. 6. Whether board members are elected at-large or from districts or both. 7. The election method used in the city, town, or village. 8. How the mayor is chosen. 9. The mayor’s term of office. 10. The mayor’s voting powers. 11. The form of administration used in the city, town, or village. The webpage has two parts. Part 1 is a searchable database that sets out the current form of government in each city, town, or village in North Carolina. (It does not include a listing of the mayors’ voting powers. All mayors who are selected by and from the governing board retain full power to vote on all matters; almost all mayors elected by the voters vote only to break ties.) Part 2 is a set of materials about how a city, town, or village, or its voters, may go about locally amending its charter to change one or another characteristic of the municipality’s form of government, including a set of forms that can be used in making these amendments.