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

The State representative shall refer to the administrative court the acts mentioned in article LO 6451-2 that it considers contrary to legality within two months of their transmission. When the State representative refers an act to the administrative court, he shall inform the local authority authority without delay and provide it with all details of the illegalities invoked against the act concerned. At the request of the president of the…

Without prejudice to the direct recourse available to it, a natural or legal person injured by an act mentioned in articles LO 6451-2 and LO 6451-4 may, within two months of the date on which the act became enforceable, request the State representative to implement the procedure provided for in Article LO 6452-1. For the acts mentioned in Article LO 6451-2, this request may not have the effect of extending…

The following are illegal: 1° Deliberations in which one or more members of the territorial council with an interest in the matter that is the subject of the deliberation have taken part, either in their personal name or as agents; 2° Decisions and deliberations by which the local authority waives, either directly or by means of a contractual clause, the right to bring any liability action against any natural or…

When an appeal for misuse of power or an appeal for assessment of legality directed against the acts mentioned in 1° to 3° of article LO 6451-2 and that this appeal is based on a serious plea alleging the incorrect application of the division of powers between the State, the local authority and the communes, or that this plea is raised ex officio, it immediately forwards the case to the…

The President of the Territorial Council shall bring to the attention of the members of the Territorial Council, at the next meeting of the Territorial Council following notification to him, the decisions of the administrative or judicial courts which rule on the legality of the acts of the institutions of the collectivity.

This chapter applies to the public establishments of the local authority.