Section 1: Guarantees granted to holders of a territorial council mandate

The Territorial Council determines, by analogy with the rules applicable to the departmental councils of the départements and to the regional councils, the guarantees granted to the territorial councillors of Saint-Martin with regard to leave of absence or credit for hours, the guarantees granted in the exercise of a professional activity, guarantees granted at the end of the mandate and the right to training, travel allowances and subsistence expenses incurred…

I. – The members of the territorial council receive, for the effective exercise of their functions, an indemnity fixed by the territorial council by reference to the amount of the salary corresponding to the terminal gross index of the index scale of the State civil service. The functional indemnity voted by the territorial council for the effective exercise of the functions of territorial councillor is at most equal to 50%…

The territorial councillor who holds other electoral mandates or who sits in this capacity on the board of directors of a local public establishment or of the Centre national de la fonction publique territoriale, on the board of directors or supervisory board of a local semi-public company or who chairs such a company may not receive, for all their duties, a total amount of remuneration and allowances exceeding one and…

The resolutions provided for in this section shall be adopted by an absolute majority of the members of the Territorial Council.