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Article L5219-8-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

I. – Taxes and impositions collected by way of assessment, on behalf of the Greater Paris metropolitan area, are allocated monthly, in the amount of one twelfth of their total amount, as provided for in the budget for the current year, with the first payment being made before 31 January. When the amount to be allocated cannot be determined as indicated in the previous paragraph, the monthly allocations are made…

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Article L5219-9 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The metropolitan council is composed of metropolitan councillors elected under the conditions provided for in Title V of Book I of the Electoral Code. The distribution of seats on the metropolitan council between communes is carried out under the conditions provided for in article L. 5211-6-1 of this code. [Provisions declared to be unconstitutional by Constitutional Council decision no. 2015-717 DC of 6 August 2015.]

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Article L5219-9-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Each territorial council is made up of a number of councillors determined pursuant to III and IV of article L. 5211-6-1. In each commune, the metropolitan councillor or councillors of the commune are designated as territory councillors and the additional seats are filled in accordance with b of 1° of Article L. 5211-6-2.

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Article L5219-10 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

I. – The services or parts of services of the municipalities or public establishments of inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax status existing on 31 December 2014 which participate in the exercise of the competences of the Greater Paris metropolitan area are transferred to the Greater Paris metropolitan area, in accordance with the procedures set out in Article L. 5211-4-1. II. – The departments or parts of departments of the…

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Article L5219-11 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The council of the Greater Paris metropolis adopts by a two-thirds majority, within six months of its creation, a financial and fiscal pact defining the financial relations between the Greater Paris metropolis, the territorial public establishments and the communes located within the perimeter of the metropolis. The financial and fiscal pact determines the compensation allocations due to the member communes, in accordance with the procedures defined in X of article…

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Article L5219-12 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

I. – The services of the Greater Paris metropolis contributing to the exercise of competences subject to the definition of a metropolitan interest and not declared to be of metropolitan interest may be made available, in whole or in part, to the territorial public establishments or the Paris commune. The services of the territorial public establishments or the municipality of Paris contributing to the exercise of competencies subject to the…

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Article L5221-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Two or more municipal councils, deliberative bodies of public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation or mixed syndicates may initiate between themselves, through their mayors or presidents, an agreement on objects of communal or inter-municipal utility included within their remit and which concern both their respective municipalities, their public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation or their mixed syndicates. They may enter into agreements with each other for the purpose of undertaking or maintaining…

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Article L5222-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Where several communes own undivided property or rights, a legal entity governed by public law shall be created for their management and for the management of the related public services, administered in accordance with the procedures set out in Article L. 5222-2, by a syndicate commission made up of delegates from the municipal councils of the communes concerned and by the municipal councils of these communes. The decision to set…

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Article L5222-2 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The syndicate committee and the syndic ensure the administration and development of undivided property and rights. Their powers are the same as those of town councils and mayors in similar matters. However, sales, exchanges, divisions, acquisitions of real estate and related transactions remain reserved for town councils, which may authorise the president of the commission to pass the related deeds. Decisions concerning the acquisition of real estate and related transactions,…

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