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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Communal sections with separate assets

Article L2544-6

…commission, the number of members of the commission and draws its members by lot from among the electors of the section. The commission appoints its chairman from among its members.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Resignation and dissolution

Article L3121-6

In the event of the dissolution of the departmental council, the resignation of all its serving members or the definitive annulment of the election of all its members, the president is responsible for…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L3241-6

When a public institution operates in several départements, the composition of the board of directors is adapted to ensure fair representation of elected representatives from all these départements.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Budgets and accounts

Article L3661-6

…he President of the Metropolitan Lyon Council may, by express decision, make transfers from article to article within the same chapter, excluding articles whose appropriations are specialised.Within t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Responsibilities

Article L3444-6

In the overseas departments, the departmental council is asked to give its opinion, before 31 December each year, on the general guidelines for programming State housing aid for the following year.The…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L3611-6

…applicable after adapting the rules governing their composition, operation and funding.With regard to the competences it exercises, the Metropole of Lyon is represented in all the public establishmen…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Powers of the Lyon Metropolitan Area

Article L3641-6

…s of right with the preparation, review and modification of planning schemes and documents relating to development, economic development and innovation, transport and the environment, higher education…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption of the budget and settlement of accounts

Article L4312-6

…et is not adopted, pay and authorise investment expenditure and operating expenditure corresponding to the authorisations opened during previous financial years, up to an amount of payment appropriati…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: The Council for Culture, Education and the Environment.

Article L4433-6

The council for culture, education and the environment is obligatorily and previously consulted during the preparation of the region's development and equipment plan and the preparation of the region'…

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

Article L5211-62

…shment for inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax authority exercises the competence relating to the local town planning plan, its deliberative body holds a debate on local town planning policy…

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