PART FIVE: LOCAL COOPERATION

The category of public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation includes syndicats de communes, communautés de communes, communautés urbaines, communautés d’agglomération and métropoles.

I. – In each department, based on an assessment of the coherence of the perimeters and an inventory of the distribution of the competences of the existing groupings and their exercise, a departmental inter-municipal cooperation scheme is drawn up, providing for full coverage of the territory by public inter-municipal cooperation establishments with their own tax status and the elimination of enclaves and territorial discontinuities. II. – This plan also sets…

I. – Without prejudice to V of article L. 5210-1-1, when the representative of the State in the department establishes that a commune does not belong to any public establishment of inter-communal cooperation with its own tax system or creates an enclave or a territorial discontinuity within the perimeter of such a public establishment, he defines, by decree, a project for the attachment of this commune to a public establishment…

A commune may not belong to more than one public establishment for intercommunal cooperation with its own tax status.

The departmental council and the regional council concerned may, at the request of either of them, be involved by a public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation in the preparation of any development and planning project for its territory, with a view to setting general objectives for partnership or cooperation.

Where it is expressly authorised to do so by its articles of association, a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation may request to exercise, in the name and on behalf of the department or the region, all or part of the competences devolved to one or other of these authorities. The president of the regional council or the departmental council is required to place the consideration of a request to this…