The urban community may be dissolved at the request of the municipal councils of the communes that it brings together, deciding by a vote of at least two thirds of the municipal councils of the communes concerned representing more than half of the total population of these communes, or at least half of the municipal councils of the communes representing two thirds of the population, this majority must also necessarily include the municipal council whose population is greater than half of the total population concerned. It is automatically dissolved when it has only one member municipality. Dissolution is pronounced by decree in the Council of Ministers.
A decree in the Council of State determines, in accordance with the provisions of article L. 5211-25-1 and subject to the rights of third parties, the conditions under which the community is liquidated; in particular, it sets the conditions under which the transfer of property, rights and obligations takes place, after the opinion of a commission composed as stated in article L. 5215-28.
The community’s personnel are allocated between the member municipalities or any of their cooperation bodies, by a commission chaired by the president of the Conseil supérieur de la fonction publique territoriale (Higher Council for the Territorial Civil Service), without the possibility of a reduction in the number of executives and taking into account their acquired rights. The municipalities or any cooperation bodies that have been awarded the contract bear the corresponding financial costs.
A decree in the Conseil d’Etat will set the terms and conditions for this distribution as well as the composition of this commission.