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Article L5216-4-2 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

In the councils of agglomeration communities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, the operation of groups of community councillors may be the subject of deliberations without the decisions relating to the compensation system for community councillors being modified on this occasion. In these same councils, groups of community councillors are formed by the submission to the president of a declaration, signed by their members, accompanied by a list of their members…

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Article L5216-5 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

I.-The agglomeration community automatically exercises the following competencies in place of the member municipalities: 1° In terms of economic development: economic development actions under the conditions set out in article L. 4251-17; creation, development, maintenance and management of industrial, commercial, tertiary, craft, tourist, port or airport activity zones; local trade policy and support for commercial activities of community interest; promotion of tourism, including the creation of tourist offices, without prejudice…

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Article L5216-6 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The agglomeration community is substituted ipso jure for the syndicat de communes or syndicat mixte whose perimeter is identical to its own, for all the competences it exercises. The agglomeration community is also automatically substituted, for the competences it exercises, for the syndicat de communes or syndicat mixte included entirely within its perimeter. The substitution of the agglomeration community for the syndicate is carried out under the conditions provided for…

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Article L5216-7 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

I. – When some of the communes of a syndicat de communes or a syndicat mixte form part of a communauté d’agglomération, by the creation of this communauté, by the merger of public establishments of inter-municipal cooperation to form a communauté d’agglomération or by the transformation of a public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation into a communauté d’agglomération, and this community is included in its entirety in the syndicate, this creation,…

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Article L5216-8 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Revenue for the conurbation community’s budget includes: 1° The tax resources mentioned in I and V of article 1379-0 bis of the General Tax Code. The conurbation community may, in addition, collect, in respect of the competence of organising authority for the public distribution of electricity mentioned in article L. 2224-31, provided that this competence is not already exercised by an authority mentioned in Article L. 5212-24, the communal share…

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Article L5216-8-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The loss of revenue suffered by the conurbation community as a result of the extension from fifteen to twenty-five years of the exemptions from property tax on built properties provided for in articles 1384 A, 1384 C and 1384 D of the General Tax Code are compensated in accordance with the provisions of Article L. 2335-3 of this code. For social rental housing benefiting from a decision to grant a…

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Article L5216-9 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The agglomeration community is dissolved, by decree of the Conseil d’Etat ipso jure when it no longer has more than one member municipality or, at the request of the municipal councils of the member municipalities acquired by a vote of at least two-thirds of the municipal councils of the municipalities concerned representing more than half of the total population of the latter, or of at least half of the municipal…

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Article L5216-10 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Within three years of the publication of the loi n° 99-586 du 12 juillet 1999 relative au renforcement et à la simplification de la coopération intercommunale, le périmètre des communautés d’agglomération peut être étendu aux communes dont l’inclusion dans le périmètre communautaire est de nature à assurer la cohérence spatiale et économique ainsi que la solidarité financière et sociale qui sont nécessaires au développement de la communauté d’agglomération. It may…

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Article L5216-11 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

By way of derogation from article L. 5211-19, a commune may be authorised, by the State representative in the department after receiving the opinion of the departmental commission for inter-communal cooperation meeting in the formation provided for in the second paragraph of article L. 5211-45, to withdraw from a conurbation community in order to join another public establishment for inter-communal cooperation with its own tax status whose deliberative body has…

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