PART THREE: THE DEPARTMENT

I. – The Metropole of Lyon automatically exercises, in place of the municipalities located on its territory, the following competencies: 1° In terms of economic, social and cultural development and planning: a) Creation, development, maintenance and management of industrial, commercial, tertiary, craft, tourist, port or airport activity zones; b) Economic development actions, including participation in the capital of companies mentioned in 8° of Article L. 4211-1, and actions contributing to…

The metropolis of Lyon automatically exercises the powers that the laws, in their provisions not contrary to the present title, attribute to the department. The metropolis of Lyon exercises the powers that the laws, in their provisions not contrary to the present title, attribute to the department.

The Lyon metropolitan authority may delegate the management of some of its powers to the municipalities located within its territory, by agreement.

I. – The Rhône-Alpes region may delegate some of its powers to the Lyon metropolitan authority, under the conditions set out in Article L. 1111-8. II. – By agreement with the Rhône-Alpes region, at the request of the latter or the Lyon metropolitan area, the latter shall exercise within its territory, in place of the region, the powers defined in 2° of Article L. 4221-1-1. The agreement is signed within…

The State may delegate, by agreement, some of its powers to Metropolitan Lyon, under the conditions set out in Article L. 301-5-1 of the Code de la construction et de l’habitation (Construction and Housing Code).

The metropolis of Lyon is associated as 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 and research, the list of which is set by decree in the Council of State and which fall within the remit of the State, a territorial authority or their public establishments, when these schemes and documents have…

The State may transfer to the Metropole of Lyon, at its request, the ownership, development, maintenance and management of major facilities and infrastructures, if applicable located outside its perimeter, after receiving the opinion of the territorially competent departmental council. These transfers are carried out free of charge and do not give rise to the payment of any compensation or tax or any duty, salary or fee. The transfer is authorised…

The metropolis of Lyon is automatically substituted, for the competences set out in articles L. 3641-1 et L. 3641-2, to the syndicat de communes or the syndicat mixte whose perimeter is identical to its own or totally included within its own. All the assets, rights and obligations necessary for the exercise of these powers are transferred to the metropolis, which is automatically substituted for the syndicate in all the latter’s…

Article L. 2143-3 is applicable to the metropolis of Lyon. For its application: 1° The reference to public establishments for inter-communal cooperation or groupings is replaced by the reference to the metropolis of Lyon; 2° The reference to the communes that are members of the establishment is replaced by the reference to the communes located within the territory of the metropolis of Lyon; 3° The reference to the inter-communal commission…