Section 3: Powers

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

I. – When some of the communes of a syndicate of communes or a mixed syndicate form part of an urban community, through the creation of this community, through the merger of public establishments of inter-communal cooperation to form an urban community or through the conversion of a public establishment of inter-communal cooperation into an urban community, and this community is included in its entirety in the syndicate, this creation,…

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….

The transfer of powers to the urban community entails the transfer to the president and the community council of all the powers conferred or imposed by laws and regulations on the mayor and the municipal council respectively.