CHAPTER I: Common provisions

Without prejudice to the provisions specific to metropolises, urban communities and conurbation communities, when a public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation provides a service on behalf of a local authority, another public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation or a mixed syndicate, the related expenditure is recorded in a budget annexed to the budget referred to in articles L. 5212-18 to L. 5212-21, L. 5214-23, or L. 5216-8 as appropriate. The revenues of…

Decisions by the council of a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax system, the effects of which affect only one of the member municipalities, may only be taken after obtaining the opinion of the municipal council of that municipality. If this opinion has not been given within three months of the community’s proposal being forwarded, it is deemed to be favourable. Where this opinion is unfavourable, the…

Any taxpayer registered on the roll of the municipality has the right to exercise, both as plaintiff and defendant, at his own expense and risk, with the authorisation of the administrative court, the actions that he believes belong to the public establishments of inter-municipal cooperation to which the municipality has joined and which the latter, previously called upon to deliberate, have refused or neglected to exercise. The taxpayer sends the…

The president of a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax authority exercising jurisdiction over local delinquency prevention schemes leads and coordinates actions contributing to the exercise of this jurisdiction under the conditions laid down in article L. 132-13 of the Internal Security Code.

A public establishment for intercommunal cooperation with its own tax status may transfer any competence to a syndicate of communes or a mixed syndicate whose perimeter includes the entire community perimeter after the syndicate has been created or the public establishment has joined. By way of derogation from the previous paragraph, in matters of water and watercourse management, drinking water supply, collective or non-collective sanitation, urban rainwater management, external fire…

When a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax authority exercises the competence relating to the local town planning plan, its deliberative body holds a debate on local town planning policy at least once a year.

When a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation decides that public reading is of inter-municipal interest, it draws up and implements a scheme for the development of public reading.