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Article L5215-23 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Urban communities existing on the date of publication of the loi n° 99-586 du 12 juillet 1999 relative au renforcement et à la simplification de la coopération intercommunale ayant élargi ou non leurs compétences dans les conditions prévues au III de l’article L. 5215-20-1 are substituted, for the exercise of their competences alone, for the communes which are part of it when these are grouped with communes outside the community….

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Article L5215-26 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

In order to finance the construction or operation of a facility, assistance funds may be paid between the urban community and the member municipalities following concordant agreements expressed by a simple majority of the community council and the municipal councils concerned. The total amount of the assistance funds may not exceed the share of the financing provided, excluding subsidies, by the recipient of the assistance fund.

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Article L5215-27 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The urban community may entrust, by agreement with the local authority or authorities concerned, the creation or management of certain facilities or services falling within its remit to one or more member municipalities, to their groupings or to any other territorial authority or public establishment. Under the same conditions, these local authorities may entrust the urban community with the creation or management of certain facilities or services falling within their…

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Article L5215-28 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Buildings and movable property forming part of the public domain of the municipalities belonging to the conurbation are assigned ipso jure to the urban community, as soon as it is established, insofar as they are necessary for the exercise of the community’s powers. The definitive transfer of ownership and of the rights and obligations attached to the transferred assets is effected by amicable agreement. Failing an amicable agreement, a decree…

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Article L5215-30 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

A decree in the Conseil d’Etat sets the conditions under which the technical services of the urban community provide maintenance for roads temporarily retained by the communes. In addition, in the other areas of competence retained by the communes, the urban community may, under the conditions laid down by deliberation of the community council, make its technical services available to those of the communes that so request. The mayor directly…

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Article L5215-31 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Within the perimeter of the conurbation in which the urban community exercises its powers, roads may be redistributed between the State, the département and the urban community. The corresponding classifications and declassifications take place after a public enquiry carried out in accordance with the code of relations between the public and the administration and consultation with the community council and the departmental council. They are pronounced either by joint order…

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Article L5215-32 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The revenue of the urban community’s budget includes: 1° The tax resources mentioned in II or, where applicable, I of Article 1379-0 bis of the General Tax Code, as well as those mentioned in V and V bis of the same article; The urban community may, in addition, collect, in respect of the authority to organise the public distribution of electricity mentioned in l’article L. 2224-31, provided that this competence…

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