CHAPTER I: Common provisions

Metropolises, urban communities, conurbation communities and communities of communes are administered by a deliberative body composed of representatives of the member communes appointed under the conditions provided for in Title V of Book I of the Electoral Code. After the general renewal of the municipal councils, the deliberative body meets no later than the Friday of the fourth week following the election of the mayors. At the first meeting of…

I. – The number and distribution of community councillor seats are established: 1° Either in accordance with the procedures set out in II to VI of this article; 2° Or, in communities of communes and agglomeration communities, by agreement of at least two thirds of the municipal councils of the member communes representing more than half of their population or at least half of the municipal councils of the member…

By way of derogation from articles L. 5211-6 et L. 5211-6-1, between two general renewals of the municipal councils: 1° In the event of the creation of a public inter-municipal cooperation establishment with its own tax system, a merger between several public inter-municipal cooperation establishments, at least one of which has its own tax system, the extension of the perimeter of such an establishment by the integration of one or…

In the event of the annulment of the election of a municipal council of a municipality with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants or the annulment of the election of community councillors provided for in article L. 273-6 of the electoral code, and provided that the resulting vacancy in the deliberative body of the public establishment for inter-communal cooperation to which the commune belongs is greater than 20% of the total number…