PART THREE: THE DEPARTMENT

The president of the departmental council is the executive body of the department. He prepares and executes the deliberations of the departmental council.

The President of the Departmental Council is the authorising officer for departmental expenditure and prescribes the execution of departmental revenue, subject to the specific provisions of the General Tax Code relating to the collection of local authority tax revenue. He charges to the investment section capital expenditure relating to movable assets not included on the lists and of a value below a threshold set by decree of the ministers responsible…

The President of the Departmental Council is solely responsible for administration. He may delegate by decree, under his supervision and responsibility, the exercise of part of his functions to the vice-presidents. He may also delegate part of his duties, under the same conditions, to members of the departmental council in the absence or impediment of the vice-presidents or when they all hold a delegation. These delegations remain in force until…

The president of the departmental council manages the department’s property. In this capacity, he exercises the police powers pertaining to this management, in particular with regard to traffic on this domain, subject to the powers devolved to mayors by this code and to the representative of the State in the department as well as the power of substitution of the representative of the State in the department provided for in…

The president of the departmental council or, where he is the authority holding traffic police powers, the mayor or the president of the public establishment for inter-communal cooperation may set, for sections of roads outside built-up areas under his jurisdiction and not comprising at least two lanes assigned to the same direction of traffic, a maximum authorised speed 10 km/h higher than that provided for in the highway code. This…

The representative of the State in the department may, in the event that this has not been done by the president of the departmental council, and after formal notice has remained without result, exercise the powers devolved to the president of the departmental council in police matters by virtue of the provisions of article L. 3221-4. .

The President of the Departmental Council appoints members of the Departmental Council to sit on outside bodies in the cases and under the conditions laid down by the provisions governing these bodies. The determination of the term of office assigned to these members by the aforementioned provisions does not prevent them from being replaced at any time, and for the remainder of this term, by a new appointment made in…

The president of the departmental council appoints field wardens in the cases and under the conditions provided for in article L. 522-2 of the internal security code.