Municipal decisions from February 8 2008

In the meeting number 12 on February 8 the creation of five subdistrict municipalities was decided. All of them I already mentioned as Royal Gazette drafts.

• TAO U Thong (อู่ทอง), U Thong district, Suphanburi province will be renamed to Thao U Thong and made a subdistrict municipality (เทศบาลตำบลท้าวอู่ทอง) on July 24 2008. The TAO was created in 1996, covers an area of 32 km², 11 villages and has 15,502 citizen.
• TAO Tha Sop Sao, Mae Tha district, Lamphun province was renamed to Tha Sop Chai and made a subdistrict municipality (เทศบาลตำบลทาสบชัย) on February 28 2008. The TAO was created in 1996, covers an area of 176 km², 11 villages and has 5,227 citizen.
• The TAO Makok Nuea (มะกอกเหนือ), Khuan Khanun
  district, Phatthalung province, will be renamed to Ban Suan and made a subdistrict municipality (เทศบาลตำบลบ้านสวน) on June 24 2008. The TAO was created in 1996, covers an area of 35.84 km², 9 villages and has 5,318 citizen.
• The subdistrict municipality Khao Wong (เทศบาลตำบลเขาวง), Ban Ta Khun district, Surat Thani, will be renamed to Ban Ta Khun (เทศบาลตำบลบ้านตาขุน) at a not yet specified date this year. The municipality was created in 1999, when the sanitary district Khao Wong was upgraded. It covers an area of 7.8 km² and has 3,514 citizen.

For each of the new municipalities there is a second municipality in the same district, so to avoid both municipalities having the same name the newly created one has to get a new name.