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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Creation

Article L5214-1

…It sets out the ways in which the competences of the communauté de communes contribute to the objectives of social and territorial cohesion. The conditions of the first paragraph are not required for…

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

Article L5211-62

…s own tax authority exercises the competence relating to the local town planning plan, its deliberative body holds a debate on local town planning policy at least once a year.

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

Article L5211-53

Where the appointment of the members of the deliberative body of the public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation, or of the president of the latter, is the subject of a contentious appeal to…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Transfer of powers.

Article L5215-24

…e powers conferred or imposed by laws and regulations on the mayor and the municipal council respectively.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Dissolution

Article L5212-33

…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 ex officio by a decree issued on the assent…

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

Article L5212-24

Where there is an inter-municipal syndicate exercising the competence of organising authority for the public distribution of electricity mentioned in article L. 2224-31, the communal share, provided f…

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

Article L5212-21-1

…udice to the application of the provisions of article L. 1618-2, syndicates of municipalities may waive the obligation to deposit with the State the amount of the balance of the investment section fro…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Creation

Article L5212-5

The syndicate is formed either without a fixed term or for a term determined by the decision establishing it.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Transfer of powers.

Article L5215-23

Urban communities existing on the date of publication of the loi n° 99-586 du 12 juillet 1999 relative au renforcement et à la simplification de la coopération intercommunale ayant élargi ou non leurs…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 5: Financial provisions.

Article L5214-23

…The income from the movable or immovable property of the communauté de communes;3° The sums it receives from public administrations, associations, private individuals, in exchange for a service rende…

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