Article L5211-5 of the French General Code of Local Authorities
I. – Without prejudice to the provisions of article L. 5212-2, the perimeter of the public intercommunal cooperation establishment may be set by order of the State representative in the department when the communes are part of the same department or by joint order of the State representatives in the departments concerned in the opposite case : 1° Either, within a period of two months from the first deliberation transmitted,…