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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: ORGANISATION

Article L3631-1

Metropolitan councillors are elected by direct universal suffrage under the conditions laid down in the Electoral Code.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VI: FINANCIAL AND ACCOUNTING PROVISIONS

Article L3661-10

The President of the Lyon Metropolitan Council presents the Administrative Account to the Lyon Metropolitan Council each year, which debates it under the chairmanship of one of its members.The Preside…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VI: FINANCIAL AND ACCOUNTING PROVISIONS

Article L3661-12

When the investment section of the budget shows a surplus after taking over the results, the local authority may transfer this surplus to the operating section in the cases and conditions defined by d…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: OVERSEAS DEPARTMENTS

Article L3441-1

The Departments of Guadeloupe, Mayotte and Reunion exercise the powers which the laws, in their provisions not contrary to those of this Title, attribute to all the Departments.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article LO3511-1

As of the first meeting following the renewal of its deliberative assembly in 2011, the departmental collectivity of Mayotte is erected into a collectivity governed by the article 73 of the Constituti…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: POWERS

Article L3642-1

The Metropolitan Council regulates the affairs of the Lyon Metropolitan Area through its deliberations.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VI: FINANCIAL AND ACCOUNTING PROVISIONS

Article L3661-1

The budget of the Metropole of Lyon is the act by which the annual revenue and expenditure of the local authority are forecast and authorised. The budget voted on must be balanced in terms of expendit…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: OVERSEAS DEPARTMENTS

Article L3444-1

The departmental councils of the overseas departments are consulted on draft laws, ordinances or decrees containing provisions for adapting the legislative regime and administrative organisation of th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V : Conditions of application of the second and third paragraphs of article 73 of the Constitution to the overseas departments

Article LO3445-10

The request for empowerment to lay down a rule applicable within the territory of the department is adopted by reasoned deliberation of the departmental council taken by an absolute majority of its me…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V : Conditions of application of the second and third paragraphs of article 73 of the Constitution to the overseas departments

Article LO3445-11

The articles LO 3445-3 to LO 3445-8 are applicable to this section.

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