Municipal Status and Boundary Changes

From time to time, municipalities in Saskatchewan may choose to make changes to their structure or boundaries. These changes are referred to as municipal restructuring.  In Saskatchewan, the provincial government has clearly pursued a policy based solely on voluntary municipal restructuring. 

Voluntary municipal restructuring can take several forms.  The options available include a variety of status and boundary adjustments. The types of municipal restructuring are:

• Incorporation: the creation of new municipalities;
• Annexation: the addition of territory from one municipality to another;
• Merger: the merging of multiple municipalities, or portions of municipalities, into one municipality; and
• Inclusion: the dissolution of one municipality in another municipality.

The Municipalities Act also contains provisions to:

• establish Organized Hamlets;
• alter Organized Hamlet boundaries; or
• revert Organized Hamlets to Hamlets. 

For more information on Organized Hamlets, please see A Guide to Organized Hamlets.

Additionally, information is available should a municipality or organized hamlet may wish to undertake a name change.

The council of a rural municipality also has the option to alter the electoral divisions of their municipality if they so choose.

More information on each of the different types of municipal restructuring is available by clicking on the type of the restructuring from the list below.