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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Financial provisions.

Article L5212-26

…ements expressed by a simple majority of the union committee and the municipal councils or deliberative bodies of the public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation concerned.The total amount o…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Creation

Article L5212-2

…cordant deliberations by all the municipal councils, the creation of a syndicate of municipalities gives rise to the drawing up of a list of the municipalities concerned. This list is drawn up by the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 9: Informing and involving residents.

Article L5211-52

…unicipal councils or during the electoral campaigns preceding the elections by direct or indirect universal suffrage. Two consultations on the same subject may not take place within a period of less t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 5: Transfers of property, rights and obligations.

Article L5215-28

…s established, insofar as they are necessary for the exercise of the community's powers. The definitive transfer of ownership and of the rights and obligations attached to the transferred assets is ef…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Powers.

Article L5214-16-1

…territorial community or public establishment. Under the same conditions, these territorial collectivities and public establishments may entrust the communauté de communes with the creation or manage…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 10: Miscellaneous provisions.

Article L5211-56

Without prejudice to the provisions specific to metropolises, urban communities and conurbation communities, when a public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation provides a service on behalf of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 9: Informing and involving residents.

Article L5211-49

…public establishment of inter-communal cooperation may be consulted on decisions that the deliberative body or the president of this establishment are called upon to take in order to regulate matters…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 4: Conditions for holding office as a member of the community council.

Article L5215-17

…nities of at least 400,000 inhabitants, the allowances voted by the community council for the effective exercise of the mandate of community councillor are at most equal to 28% of the reference term m…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 4: Conditions for holding office as a member of the community council.

Article L5215-16

…% of the difference between the amount of the gross monthly allowance that the person concerned received for the performance of his duties, subject to the maximum rates provided for in Article L. 5211…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 7: Dissolution.

Article L5214-28

…ther at the reasoned request of the majority of these municipal councils by order of the representative(s) of the State in the department(s) concerned;b) Or, where the communauté de communes has opted…

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