What happens when municipal border goes thru subdivision (Milltown: houses, taxes)

[johntaylorny]

I've noticed while scanning google maps that many of the municipal boundary lines that are not created by physical features (water bodies, etc) and are just lines on a map have been built over with urban sprawl. Housing developers just built housing tracts right over the municipal borders. Some houses have the borders splitting the house in half. How do municipalities handle this type of thing as far as providing services to those houses (police, fire, trash, electrict, taxes, etc). Let's stay a long dead end street is split between 2 municipalities with the last house being in the other municipality.

For example when coming into Milltown, NJ on main street from the east you cross over Rt 1. The first two streets off Main St in Milltown proper are actually in North Brunswick proper but you can't get to them from North Brunswick only from Milltown. The housing development smears the Milltown/NBruns border. But those 2 streets are technically in North Brunswick (they have N Bruns street signs and street lights). But does Milltown offer the services to them? For example if someone called police would Milltown police handle it or would they have to wait 15 minutes for North Bruns police to drive thru Milltown to get there???

[flyonpa]

For Services Most towns have intergovernmental agreements on who does what on what street. Town A might plow Cul De-sac street A, Cause the street starts in there town, and the end is in town B. Town B will do some other road that starts in Town B and end in town A.

For 911 type services (Towns have mutual aid agreements with each other) Modern 911 system have GPS tracking on all the police cars. So the 911 center will dispatch the closest police/fire/ems to life & death calls. NonEmergency 911 calls are sent to the correct police dept.