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TITLE IV: LEGAL REGIME FOR ACTS TAKEN BY THE AUTHORITIES OF THE COLLECTIVITY AND RELATIONS BETWEEN THE STATE AND THE COLLECTIVITY

Article LO6241-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The acts taken by the authorities of the collectivity are enforceable by operation of law as soon as they have been published in the Official Journal of Saint-Barthélemy, posted or notified to the interested parties and sent to the representative of the State. However, the acts mentioned in Article LO 6251-2 may only come into force upon the expiry of a period of fifteen days from their transmission to the…

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Article LO6241-3 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Acts taken in the name of the collectivity and other than those mentioned in article LO 6241-2 are enforceable by operation of law as soon as they have been published in the Official Journal of Saint-Barthélemy, posted or notified to the interested parties. The representative of the State may request that they be communicated at any time. He may only refer them to the administrative court, within a period of…

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Article L6241-5 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

To the local authority’s public service delegation agreements transmitted by application of 4° of Article LO 6241-2 to the State representative within fifteen days of their signature, the president of the territorial council attaches all the documents, the list of which is set by decree in the Conseil d’Etat. He certifies, by a note affixed to the agreement notified to the holder of the delegation, that it has indeed been…

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Article LO6242-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The State representative shall refer to the administrative court the acts mentioned in article LO 6241-2 which it considers to be contrary to the law within two months of their transmission. When the State representative refers an act to the administrative court, he informs the local authority authority of this without delay and provides it with full details of the illegalities invoked against the act concerned. At the request of…

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Article LO6242-2 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Without prejudice to the direct recourse available to it, if a natural or legal person is injured by an act mentioned in articles LO 6241-2 and LO 6241-3, it may, within two months of the date on which the act became enforceable, request the representative of the State to implement the procedure provided for in article LO 6242-1. For the acts mentioned in Article LO 6241-2, this request may not…

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Article LO6242-4 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

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…

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Article LO6242-5 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

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 6241-2 and that this appeal is based on a serious plea alleging the incorrect application of the division of powers between the State and the local authority or that this plea is raised ex officio, it immediately forwards the case to the Conseil d’Etat…

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Article LO6242-6 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

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.

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