CHAPTER I: Common provisions

Public establishments for inter-communal cooperation with competence in town planning matters are, on the proposal of the vendors, authorised to acquire, in return for the payment of a life annuity, properties that they require for property restoration, development or equipment operations. Where a property sold in this way is occupied in whole or in part by the vendor, the life annuity sale contract must include, for his benefit and that…

Municipalities that are members of a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation may at any time transfer, in whole or in part, to the latter, some of their competencies whose transfer is not provided for by law or by the founding decision, as well as the property, equipment or public services necessary for their exercise. These transfers are decided by concordant deliberations of the deliberating body and the municipal councils deciding…

Powers exercised by a public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation, the transfer of which to the latter is not provided for by law or by the decision establishing it, may, at any time, be returned to each of its member communes. This return is decided by joint deliberations of the deliberative body of the establishment and the municipal councils of the member communes pronouncing under the majority conditions required for the…

One or more communes that are members of a public establishment of inter-communal cooperation with its own tax system may transfer to the latter, in whole or in part, some of their competences whose transfer is not provided for by law or by the decision establishing the establishment, as well as the property, equipment or public services necessary for their exercise. These transfers take place under the conditions set out…