Article L2121-34 of the French General Code of Local Authorities
November 8, 2023
The decisions of municipal social action centres relating to loans are taken with the approval of the municipal council.
The decisions of municipal social action centres relating to loans are taken with the approval of the municipal council.
In the event of the dissolution of a municipal council or the resignation of all its serving members, or in the event of the final annulment of the election of all its members, or where a municipal council cannot be constituted, a special delegation shall perform its functions.
The special delegation is appointed by decision of the representative of the State in the département within eight days of the dissolution, the definitive annulment of the elections, the acceptance of the resignation or the declaration that it is impossible to form the municipal council. The special delegation elects its chairman and, if applicable, its vice-chairman. The chairman, or, failing that, the vice-chairman, performs the duties of mayor. His powers…
The number of members making up the special delegation is set at three in communes where the population does not exceed 35,000. This number may be increased to seven in communes with a higher population.
The powers of the special delegation are limited to acts of purely conservatory and urgent administration. Under no circumstances is it permitted to commit municipal finances beyond the available resources of the current financial year. It may neither prepare the communal budget, nor receive the accounts of the mayor or the receiver, nor modify the staff or regime of public education.
The functions of the special delegation instituted pursuant to article L. 2121-35 expire ipso jure as soon as the municipal council is reconstituted.
At his request, the mayor receives from the representative of the State in the department the information necessary for the exercise of the municipality’s attributions. At his request, the representative of the State in the department receives from the mayor the information necessary for the exercise of his attributions.
At the mayor’s request, the representative of the State in the department or his representative presents the State’s action in terms of security and crime prevention for the municipality concerned to the town council once a year. .
In each commune there is a mayor and one or more deputy mayors elected from among the members of the municipal council.
The municipal council determines the number of deputy mayors, but this number may not exceed 30% of the legal number of members of the municipal council.
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