PART FIVE: LOCAL COOPERATION

I. – The transfer of competencies from a commune to a public establishment for inter-communal cooperation entails the transfer of the department or part of the department responsible for its implementation. However, in the context of the proper organisation of services, a commune may retain all or part of the service affected by the transfer of competencies, due to the partial nature of the latter. Territorial civil servants and non-tenured…

In addition to the powers transferred, a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax status, one or more of its member municipalities and, where applicable, one or more of the public establishments attached to one or more of them, may set up joint services, responsible for carrying out functional or operational tasks, including the examination of decisions taken by mayors on behalf of the municipality or the State,…

In order to pool resources, a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax status may acquire assets that it shares with its member communes in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in a regulation for their availability, including for the exercise by the communes of competences that have not previously been transferred to the public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation.

I.-When a grouping of orders is set up between communes that are members of the same public establishment for inter-communal cooperation with their own tax status or between these communes and this public establishment, the communes may entrust this public establishment, free of charge, by agreement, if the articles of association of the public establishment expressly so provide, independently of the functions of coordinator of the grouping of orders and…