PART SIX: OVERSEAS COLLECTIVITIES GOVERNED BY ARTICLE 74 OF THE CONSTITUTION

The Territorial Council may not deliberate unless an absolute majority of its members in office are present. However, if, on the day fixed by the notice convening the meeting, the Territorial Council does not meet in sufficient number to deliberate, the meeting is held ipso jure three days later and the deliberations are then valid regardless of the number of those present. Subject to the provisions of articles LO 6322-1,…

Votes are taken by open ballot whenever one-sixth of the members present so request. In the event of a tie, the chairman shall have the casting vote. Votes on appointments are always taken by secret ballot. However, the Territorial Council may unanimously decide not to proceed by secret ballot with appointments or presentations, unless legislative or regulatory provisions expressly provide for this method of voting. The results of public ballots,…

A territorial councillor unable to attend a meeting may give a voting delegation for that meeting to another member of the territorial council. A territorial councillor may receive only one delegation.

The deliberations of the territorial council, as well as those of the executive council when they are taken by delegation of the assembly, are published in the same forms.

Any person has the right to request access to the deliberations and minutes of public meetings of the territorial council, the deliberations and acts of the executive council, the budgets and accounts of the local authority, as well as the decrees of the president of the territorial council. Each may publish them under its own responsibility. The communication of the documents mentioned in the first paragraph, which may be obtained…