Editing Tromsø (section)

==Government==
[[Tromsø Municipality]] is responsible for [[primary education]] (through 10th grade), outpatient [[Health care|health services]], [[old age|senior citizen]] services, [[welfare spending|welfare]] and other [[Social work|social services]], [[zoning]], [[economic development]], and municipal [[road]]s and utilities. The municipality is governed by a [[Municipal council (Norway)|municipal council]] of [[Direct election|directly elected]] representatives. The [[mayor]] is [[Indirect election|indirectly elected]] by a vote of the municipal council.<ref name="ks">{{Cite encyclopedia |title=kommunestyre |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |publisher=[[Kunnskapsforlaget]] |url=https://snl.no/kommunestyre |date=2022-09-20 |editor-last=Hansen |editor-first=Tore |language=Norwegian |editor2-last=Vabo |editor2-first=Signy Irene |accessdate=2022-10-14 |archive-date=27 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327085706/https://snl.no/kommunestyre |url-status=live }}</ref> The municipality is under the jurisdiction of the [[Nord-Troms og Senja District Court]] and the [[Hålogaland Court of Appeal]].

The city of Tromsø was established as an independent municipality on 1 January 1838 (see [[formannskapsdistrikt]] law). The city was completely surrounded by the [[Tromsøysund Municipality|Tromsøe landdistrikt]] (the rural municipality of Tromsø / later renamed ''Tromsøysund Municipality''), but they were governed separately. As the city grew in size, areas were added to the city from the rural district.<ref name="dag">{{Cite web |last=Jukvam |first=Dag |year=1999 |title=Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen |url=http://www.ssb.no/emner/00/90/rapp_9913/rapp_9913.pdf |publisher=[[Statistics Norway|Statistisk sentralbyrå]] |language=no |access-date=15 December 2012 |archive-date=1 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901160307/http://www.ssb.no/emner/00/90/rapp_9913/rapp_9913.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>