Section 4: Social protection

Members of the departmental council may set up an annuity pension in the management of which the affiliated elected representatives must participate. The constitution of the annuity pension is half the responsibility of the elected member and half the responsibility of the département. A Conseil d’Etat decree sets the maximum contribution rates.

Members of the departmental council are affiliated to the supplementary pension scheme instituted for the benefit of non-tenured employees of public authorities. Pensions paid pursuant to this article may be accumulated without limitation with any other pension or retirement.

The contributions of the departments and those of their elected representatives are calculated on the amount of the allowances actually received by the latter pursuant to the provisions of this chapter or any other text governing the compensation of their functions. The contributions of elected representatives are personal and compulsory.

Retirement pensions already liquidated and rights acquired before 30 March 1992 by elected departmental representatives continue to be honoured by the institutions and bodies with which they were constituted or from which they were transferred. The corresponding expenses are covered, where applicable, by a balancing subsidy paid by the local authorities concerned. The elected representatives mentioned in the previous paragraph, in office or having acquired rights to a retirement pension…