The articles L. 2131-1 to L. 2131-6 and L. 2131-8 are applicable, subject to the provisions below, to the deliberations of the arrondissement councils, with the exception of those taken in application of section 2 of this chapter and the opinions issued by these councils.
The deliberations of the arrondissement councils are sent to the mayor of the commune or to the mayor of Paris. The latter shall forward them to the representative of the State in the département within a fortnight of receipt and shall inform the arrondissement mayor of such forwarding within forty-eight hours.
Within the same period of fifteen days, the mayor of the municipality or the mayor of Paris, if he does not forward the deliberations of the arrondissement council to the representative of the State in the département, shall ask the latter for a second reading. Reasons must be given for this request. The mayor of the municipality or the mayor of Paris shall forward the new deliberation of the arrondissement council to the representative of the State in the department within a fortnight of its receipt and shall inform the arrondissement mayor of this forwarding within forty-eight hours.
When the arrondissement mayor has not been informed within the prescribed time of the forwarding of the deliberation, he may send it directly to the representative of the State in the department.
Without prejudice to the recourse available to the representative of the State in the department, the mayor of the municipality or the mayor of Paris may refer to the administrative court a deliberation that has given rise to a second reading pursuant to the third paragraph, within two months of the date on which he received this deliberation. If this appeal is accompanied by a request for suspension and if one of the grounds put forward in support of the appeal appears, in the light of the investigation, to be such as to create serious doubt as to the legality of the contested decision, the President of the Administrative Court or a magistrate delegated by him shall order the suspension within forty-eight hours. The suspension decision may be appealed to the Conseil d’Etat within fifteen days of its notification. In this case, the President of the Litigation Section of the Council of State or a Councillor of State delegated for this purpose shall rule within forty-eight hours.
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