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Article L3231-5 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The départements may guarantee loans taken out to finance the construction, by religious associations or, in the départements of Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin and Moselle, by public religious establishments or by associations registered under local law for religious purposes, of buildings meeting collective needs of a religious nature. The department informs the representative of the State in the department of its intention to grant such a guarantee at least three months before…

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Article L3231-6 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

All shareholdings in the capital of a commercial company or any other profit-making body whose purpose is not to operate departmental services or activities of general interest under conditions similar to those provided for, in the case of communes, by article L. 2253-2. By way of derogation from this article, a département may, by deliberation of its deliberative body, hold shares in a société anonyme or a société par actions…

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Article L3231-8 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Where, in a public limited company, a département is a member or chairman of the board of directors, a member of the management board or a member or chairman of the supervisory board, the civil liability arising from the exercise of the mandate of the département’s representatives is incumbent on the département and not on those representatives.

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Article L3232-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The département draws up a rural equipment assistance programme in the light, in particular, of proposals sent to it by the communes. Under no circumstances may this programme have the effect of allowing the départements to award a loan, grant or aid under conditions prohibited by the provisions of article L. 1111-5. When drawing up its aid programme, the département takes into account the priorities defined by the communes, or…

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Article L3232-1-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

For reasons of solidarity and regional planning, the department makes technical assistance available under conditions determined by agreement to municipalities or public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation that do not have sufficient resources to exercise their competencies in the areas of sanitation, protection of water resources, restoration and maintenance of aquatic environments, flood prevention, roads, mobility, planning and housing. The department may delegate these technical assistance missions to a mixed syndicate…

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Article L3232-1-2 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

As an exception to article L. 1511-2, the département may, by agreement with the region and in addition to the latter, participate, by means of subsidies, in the financing of aid granted by the region in favour of departmental, interdepartmental or regional committees for sea fishing and marine farming within the meaning of articles L. 912-1 et seq. of the rural and maritime fishing code, regional shellfish farming committees within…

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Article L3232-2 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The financial aid mentioned in the seventh paragraph of Article L. 2224-31 is distributed by department. The department shall, on the basis of proposals submitted by the local authorities, decide how this aid is to be distributed between the organising authorities of a public electricity distribution network that are the project managers for rural electrification works and are therefore eligible. Where, in a département, there is a public cooperation body…

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Article L3232-4 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The département may, after consultation with the municipal council of the commune in which the business concerned is located, award subsidies to existing businesses whose purpose is to operate cinemas under conditions set by decree in the Conseil d’Etat. These grants may only be awarded to establishments which, regardless of the number of screens, achieve a weekly average of less than 7,500 admissions or which are classified as art cinemas…

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Article L3232-5 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Departments may finance or implement forest management, equipment and monitoring actions in order, on the one hand, to prevent fires and, where applicable, to facilitate fire-fighting operations and, on the other hand, to restore forests. Where applicable, these actions are part of the plan defined in article L. 133-2 of the Forestry Code.

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Article L3241-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The provisions relating to the legality control and budgetary control of the acts of departmental public establishments and departmental and territorial fire and rescue services are those laid down by Chapter II of Title III of Book I of Part Three and by Chapter II of Title I of Book VI of Part One. The provisions relating to the finances of the departmental and territorial fire and rescue services are…

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