BOOK VII: JOINT ASSOCIATIONS

The provisions of Title III of Book I of Part Three relating to legality control and the publicity and entry into force of the acts of the departmental authorities are applicable to the mixed syndicates governed by this Title. The provisions of Chapters II and VII of the single title of Book VI of Part One relating to budgetary control and public accountants are also applicable to them.

The public-private association may achieve its purpose, in particular, by direct operation or by simple financial participation in companies or organisations under the same conditions as the départements or communes. In the latter case, the terms and conditions of this participation are set by the decision establishing it.

Any natural or legal person has the right to request communication of the deliberations and minutes of the deliberative body of mixed syndicates, budgets and accounts as well as the decisions of the president of these public establishments. Each may publish them under its own responsibility. The communication of the documents mentioned in the first paragraph, which may be obtained both from the president and from the decentralised departments of…

I.- The transfer of powers to a public-private association automatically entails the application to all the public property, facilities and services necessary for their exercise, as well as to all the rights and obligations attached to them on the date of the transfer: 1° When the association is created: of the provisions of the first three paragraphs of Article L. 1321-1, the first two paragraphs of l’article L. 1321-2 and…

Withdrawal from a mixed syndicate or, where the syndicate’s statutes allow, withdrawal of one or more competences transferred to a mixed syndicate, is carried out under the conditions set out in article L. 5211-25-1. When the movable and immovable assets have been acquired or realised or when the debt has been contracted, subsequent to the transfer of competencies, the distribution of these assets or of the proceeds of their realisation…

A commune may be authorised by the State representative in the department, after receiving the opinion of the departmental commission for intercommunal cooperation meeting in the formation provided for in the second paragraph, to withdraw from a mixed syndicate in order to join a community of communes or, where the statutes of the syndicate allow, to withdraw from it one or more competences that it has transferred to it in…

The mixed syndicate is dissolved ipso jure either at the end of the period for which it was set up, or at the end of the operation that it was intended to carry out, or when it has only one member left. It may also be dissolved, on its own initiative or at the reasoned request of the majority of the legal entities that make it up, by reasoned order…

A syndicate that has not carried out any activity for at least two years may be dissolved by order of the representative of the State in the department in which the syndicate has its registered office, after consulting each of its members. From the date of notification by the representative of the State in the department of his intention to dissolve the syndicate, each member has a period of three…

The provisions of articles L. 5211-12 to L. 5211-14 applicable to syndicats de communes are applicable to syndicats mixtes associating exclusively communes, établissements publics de coopération intercommunale, départements and régions. Articles L. 5211-12 to L. 5211-14 are also applicable to mixed syndicates associating exclusively communes, public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation, départements, regions and other mixed syndicates associating exclusively communes, public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation, départements and regions.

The services of a syndicat mixte (public-private association) involving only territorial authorities or territorial authorities and groupings of authorities may be made available in whole or in part to its member authorities or groupings, for the exercise of their powers. An agreement concluded between the union and the local authorities or groupings concerned sets out the terms and conditions of such provision. This agreement sets out, in particular, the conditions…