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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 8: Relations with the State representative.

Article L3121-25

By agreement between the president of the departmental council and the representative of the State in the department, the latter is heard by the departmental council . In addition, at the request of t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 8: Relations with the State representative.

Article L3121-26

Each year, the State representative in the department informs the departmental council , through a special report, of the activity of the State services in the department. This special report may give…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II : Territorial boundaries and administrative centre

Article L3112-2

The transfer of the chief town of a department is decided by decree in the Conseil d'Etat, after consultation with the departmental council of the municipal councils of the commune where the chief tow…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 6: Committees - Representation on outside bodies.

Article L3121-23

The departmental council appoints its members or delegates to sit on outside bodies in the cases and under the conditions laid down by the provisions governing these bodies. The fixing by the aforemen…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 7: Functioning of the groups of elected representatives.

Article L3121-24

In the departmental councils, the operation of the groups of elected representatives may be the subject of deliberations without the decisions relating to the allowance system for elected representati…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Subdivisions of the department

Article L3113-2

I.-Changes to the territorial boundaries of cantons and the creation and deletion of cantons are decided by decree in the Conseil d'Etat after consultation with the departmental council, which gives i…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 5: Information.

Article L3121-20

Departmental councillors have the right to present oral questions relating to departmental affairs at a meeting of the departmental council. The rules of procedure lay down the frequency of such quest…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L3241-2

In public service concession contracts, the départements, as well as departmental public establishments, may not insert clauses whereby the concessionaire assumes responsibility for the execution of w…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Scope

Article L3213-2

Any transfer of immovable property or rights in rem in immovable property by a department gives rise to a reasoned deliberation by the departmental council on the conditions of the sale and its essent…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Liability and protection of elected representatives

Article L3123-28

Subject to the provisions of the fourth paragraph of Article 121-3 du code pénal, the president of the departmental council or a departmental councillor deputising for him or having received a delegat…

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