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Section 2: Provisions relating to departmental and territorial fire and rescue services

Article L1424-6 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

A joint order by the prefect and the chairman of the fire and rescue service’s board of directors sets out, after consulting the board of directors, the organisation of the departmental service. In the event of operating difficulties, the departmental corps is dissolved by order of the Minister of the Interior, issued on a proposal from the prefect, after consulting the fire and rescue service’s board of directors. This order…

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Article L1424-7 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

A departmental risk analysis and coverage plan draws up an inventory of the risks of all kinds to the safety of people and property faced by the fire and rescue services in the department, and determines the objectives for the coverage of these risks by these services. It includes a section relating to the risk of forest, agricultural and vegetation fires and determines the objectives for covering this risk. The…

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Article L1424-8 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Without prejudice to the provisions of article L. 2216-2, the transfer of management competencies provided for by this chapter to the benefit of the departmental or territorial fire and rescue service entails the transfer of the civil liability of the communes or public establishments for inter-communal cooperation for damage resulting from the exercise of these competencies.

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Article L1424-9 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Professional firefighters, both officers and non-officers, are recruited and managed by the departmental or territorial fire and rescue service, within the framework of the legislative and regulatory provisions applicable to them. As an exception to the first paragraph, professional firefighter officers may, under conditions set by regulation, be appointed to their grades, jobs or functions jointly by the competent State authority and the chairman of the fire and rescue service’s…

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Article L1424-9-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Territorial civil service employees other than those in the professional fire brigade are recruited and managed by the departmental or territorial fire and rescue service, within the framework of the legislative and regulatory provisions applicable to them. By way of derogation from article 40 of law no. 84-53 of 26 January 1984 on statutory provisions relating to the territorial civil service, when they are required to occupy a functional post…

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Article L1424-10 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Volunteer firefighters and volunteers on firefighter civic service are hired and managed by the departmental or territorial fire and rescue service. As an exception to the first paragraph, volunteer firefighter officers and non-commissioned officers may, under conditions laid down by regulation, be appointed to their grades or duties jointly by the competent State authority and the chairman of the fire and rescue service’s board of directors.

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Article L1424-12 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The departmental or territorial fire and rescue service builds, acquires or rents the assets necessary for its operation. An equipment plan is drawn up by the board of directors based on the risk coverage objectives set by the departmental scheme mentioned in article L1424-7. It determines the equipment that will be made available to the fire and rescue centres belonging to the municipalities and public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation. .

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Article L1424-13 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Professional firefighters who, on the date of promulgation of the loi n° 96-369 du 3 mai 1996 relative aux services d’incendie et de secours, are under the authority of a communal or inter-communal body are transferred to the departmental body under the conditions set out in an agreement signed between, on the one hand, the commune or the public establishment for inter-communal cooperation and, on the other hand, the departmental…

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