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Article L5216-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

A conurbation community is a public establishment for inter-communal cooperation that brings together several municipalities forming, on the date of its creation, a contiguous and unenclosed area with a population of more than 50,000, around one or more central municipalities with a population of more than 15,000. The population threshold of 15,000 does not apply when the agglomeration community includes the capital of the department or the largest municipality in…

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Article L5216-4 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 L5216-4-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

In agglomeration communities with a population of at least 400,000, the allowances voted by the community council for the exercise of the mandate of community councillor are at most equal to 28% of the reference term mentioned in I of article L. 2123-20. In agglomeration communities with a population of between 100,000 and 399,999, these allowances are at most equal to 6% of the reference term mentioned in the same…

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Article L5216-4-2 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

In the councils of agglomeration 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 L5216-5 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

I.-The agglomeration community automatically exercises the following competencies in place of the member municipalities: 1° In terms of economic development: economic development actions under the conditions set out in article L. 4251-17; creation, development, maintenance and management of industrial, commercial, tertiary, craft, tourist, port or airport activity zones; local trade policy and support for commercial activities of community interest; promotion of tourism, including the creation of tourist offices, without prejudice…

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Article L5216-6 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

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

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Article L5216-7 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

I. – When some of the communes of a syndicat de communes or a syndicat mixte form part of a communauté d’agglomération, by the creation of this communauté, by the merger of public establishments of inter-municipal cooperation to form a communauté d’agglomération or by the transformation of a public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation into a communauté d’agglomération, and this community is included in its entirety in the syndicate, this creation,…

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Article L5216-8 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Revenue for the conurbation community’s budget includes: 1° The tax resources mentioned in I and V of article 1379-0 bis of the General Tax Code. The conurbation community may, in addition, collect, in respect of the competence of organising authority for the public distribution of electricity mentioned in article L. 2224-31, provided that this competence is not already exercised by an authority mentioned in Article L. 5212-24, the communal share…

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