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Article L5215-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The urban community is a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation that brings together several municipalities in a single block and without an enclave that, on the date of its creation, form a group with a population of more than 250,000 and that join together within an area of solidarity to draw up and run a joint urban development and planning project for their territory. Where the urban community includes one…

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Article L5215-16 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The provisions of Chapter III of Title II of Book I of Part Two relating to the conditions for exercising municipal mandates, excluding articles L. 2123-18-1, L. 2123-18-3 et L. 2123-22, are applicable to members of the community council subject to the provisions specific to them. For the application of article L. 2123-11-2, the monthly amount of the allowance is at most equal to 80% or, from the seventh month…

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Article L5215-18 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

In the councils of urban communities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, the operation of groups of community councillors may be the subject of deliberations without the decisions relating to the compensation system for community councillors being modified on this occasion. In these same councils, groups of community councillors are formed by the submission to the president of a declaration, signed by their members, accompanied by a list of their members…

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Article L5215-20 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

I. – The urban community exercises the following competences by operation of law, in place and stead of the member municipalities: 1° With regard to the economic, social and cultural development and planning of the community area: a) Creation, development, maintenance and management of industrial, commercial, tertiary, craft, tourist, port or airport activity zones; b) Economic development actions; c) Construction or development, maintenance, management and running of cultural, socio-cultural, socio-educational…

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Article L5215-20-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

I. – Urban communities existing on the date of promulgation of the loi n° 99-586 du 12 juillet 1999 relative au renforcement et à la simplification de la coopération intercommunale continue to exercise the following competences on a compulsory basis, instead of the member communes: 1° Intercommunal development and planning charters, territorial coherence schemes, local town planning schemes or town planning documents in lieu thereof, local housing programmes, constitution of…

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Article L5215-21 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The urban community is substituted ipso jure for the syndicat de communes or the syndicat mixte whose perimeter is identical to its own, for all the competences it exercises. The urban community is also substituted ipso jure, for the competences it exercises, for the syndicat de communes or the syndicat mixte included entirely within its perimeter. The substitution of the urban community for the syndicate is carried out under the…

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Article L5215-22 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

I. – When some of the communes of a syndicate of communes or a mixed syndicate form part of an urban community, through the creation of this community, through the merger of public establishments of inter-communal cooperation to form an urban community or through the conversion of a public establishment of inter-communal cooperation into an urban community, and this community is included in its entirety in the syndicate, this creation,…

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