CHAPTER I: General provisions

The members of the section have, under the conditions resulting either from decisions of the municipal authorities or from local custom, the enjoyment of those of the property of the section whose fruits are received in kind, to the exclusion of any income in cash. Agricultural or pastoral land owned by the section is allocated by rural lease or by multi-annual farming or grazing agreement concluded under the conditions provided…

The transfer to the commune of all or part of the property, rights and obligations of a section is pronounced by the representative of the State in the department at the joint request of the town council and the syndicate commission deciding by a majority of its members or, if the syndicate commission has not been formed, at the joint request of the town council and half of the members…

Where, as a result of the failure of voters to respond, recorded under the conditions provided for in 2° of article L. 2411-5 or due to the absence of voters, the syndicate commission has not been constituted following two consecutive general renewals of the municipal councils, the transfer to the commune of the property, rights and obligations of the section may be pronounced by order of the State representative in…

The transfer to the commune of the property, rights and obligations of a section of communes is pronounced by the representative of the State in the département at the request of the municipal council in one of the following cases: – when, for more than three consecutive years, taxes have been paid from the communal budget or admitted as unpaid; – when the electors have not requested the creation of…

The transfer to the municipality of all or part of the property, rights and obligations of a section may be pronounced by the State representative in the department, at the request of the municipal council in order to implement an objective of general interest. When it is set up, the syndicate commission is consulted on the municipal council’s deliberation and has a period of two months from its referral to…

When the commune wishes to dispose of a property transferred from a commune section pursuant to articles L. 2411-11 to L. 2411-12-2 within a period of five years from the date of publication of the transfer order, the deliberation of the town council presenting the characteristics of the property to be disposed of is displayed at the town hall for a period of two months.

At the end of a period of five years from the merger pronounced by the decree provided for in article L. 2113-5 as it read prior to Law no. 2010-1563 of 16 December 2010 on the reform of territorial communities or the creation of a new commune ordered by the decree provided for in Article L. 2113-3, the assets and rights of commune sections created following the merger of two…

I. – The property of the section may not be divided between its members. II. – Where several sections of a commune have an undivided property or where a commune has an undivided property with one or more sections, an undivided co-owner may request that the undivided co-ownership be terminated as far as he is concerned, by notifying the other sections or communes concerned of his decision. A joint commission,…

When the syndicate commission is formed and subject to the provisions of II of article L. 2411-6, the change of use or sale of all or part of the property of the section is decided on a proposal from the town council or the syndicate commission by a concordant vote of the town council ruling by an absolute majority of the votes cast and of the syndicate commission, which decides…

Where the syndicate commission has not been formed, the change of use or the sale of all or part of the property of the section is decided by the municipal council ruling by an absolute majority of the votes cast, after agreement by the majority of the electors of the section convened by the mayor within six months of the transmission of the municipal council’s deliberation. In the absence of…