The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rovaniemi" id="mwbw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Rovaniemi">Rovaniemi</a> township decree was promulgated, as a result of which Rovaniemi seceded from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rovaniemen_maalaiskunta" id="mwcA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Rovaniemen maalaiskunta">old rural municipality</a> as its own market town on January 1, 1929.<sup about="#mwt23" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"}}' id="cite_ref-3" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./June_27#cite_note-3" id="mwcQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwcg">[3]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"><a class="external text" href="https://www.lapinkansa.fi/tallaista-oli-elama-rovaniemen-kauppalassa-ennen-k/493640" id="mwBic" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Tällaista oli elämä Rovaniemen kauppalassa ennen kuin siitä tuli kaupunki – lapsia oli niin paljon, että koulut olivat tupaten täynnä, teiden kunnosta naristiin ja ulkopaikkakuntalaiset rötöstelivät</a> <a about="#mwt22" class="external text" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"Webarchive","href":"./Template:Webarchive"},"params":{"url":{"wt":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210902030925/https://www.lapinkansa.fi/tallaista-oli-elama-rovaniemen-kauppalassa-ennen-k/493640"},"date":{"wt":"2021-09-02"}},"i":0}}]}' href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210902030925/https://www.lapinkansa.fi/tallaista-oli-elama-rovaniemen-kauppalassa-ennen-k/493640" id="mwBig" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" typeof="mw:Transclusion">Archived</a><span about="#mwt22" id="mwBik"> 2021-09-02 at the </span><a about="#mwt22" href="./Wayback_Machine" id="mwBio" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> – <i id="mwBiw">Lapin Kansa</i> (in Finnish)</span>