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Article L5215-39 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

From the date of the transfer of competences to the urban community, the latter assumes the debt service of the communes, syndicates of communes included in the conurbation, as well as the obligations of these communities or public establishments in respect of the competences transferred. The amount of the annual repayments of loans constitutes a compulsory expense for the urban community. Guarantees granted and subsidies in annual instalments allocated by…

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Article L5215-40 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The perimeter of the conurbation in which the urban community exercises its powers may subsequently be extended, by order of the State representative in the département, by the addition of new communes, either at the request of their municipal councils or on the initiative of the community council. The modification is subject in the first case to the agreement of the community council and in the second case to that…

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Article L5215-40-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Within three years of the publication of the loi n° 99-586 du 12 juillet 1999 relative au renforcement et à la simplification de la coopération intercommunale, le périmètre des communautés urbaines peut être étendu aux communes dont l’inclusion dans le périmètre communautaire est de nature à assurer la cohérence spatiale et économique ainsi que la solidarité financière et sociale qui sont nécessaires au développement de la communauté urbaine et à…

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Article L5215-42 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

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…

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Article L5216-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

A conurbation community is a public establishment for inter-communal cooperation that brings together several municipalities forming, on the date of its creation, a contiguous and unenclosed area with a population of more than 50,000, around one or more central municipalities with a population of more than 15,000. The population threshold of 15,000 does not apply when the agglomeration community includes the capital of the department or the largest municipality in…

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Article L5216-4 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The provisions of Chapter III of Title II of Book I of Part Two relating to the conditions for exercising municipal mandates, excluding articles L. 2123-18-1, L. 2123-18-3 et L. 2123-22, are applicable to members of the community council subject to the provisions specific to them. For the application of article L. 2123-11-2, the monthly amount of the allowance is at most equal to 80% or, from the seventh month…

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Article L5216-4-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

In agglomeration communities with a population of at least 400,000, the allowances voted by the community council for the exercise of the mandate of community councillor are at most equal to 28% of the reference term mentioned in I of article L. 2123-20. In agglomeration communities with a population of between 100,000 and 399,999, these allowances are at most equal to 6% of the reference term mentioned in the same…

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Article L5216-4-2 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

In the councils of agglomeration communities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, the operation of groups of community councillors may be the subject of deliberations without the decisions relating to the compensation system for community councillors being modified on this occasion. In these same councils, groups of community councillors are formed by the submission to the president of a declaration, signed by their members, accompanied by a list of their members…

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