Section 9: Informing and involving residents

When all the mayors of the communes that are members of a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation or half of the members of the deliberative body of this establishment submit a request to consult the electors on a matter that falls within the competence of the establishment, the chairman is required to place it on the agenda of the next meeting of the deliberative body. Where a request to organise…

The deliberation deciding on the consultation and convening the electors is sent by the president of the public establishment of intermunicipal cooperation to the mayors of the member communes of the establishment for posting at least three weeks before the date of the ballot. The president publishes the notice in two newspapers circulated within the perimeter of the public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation at least fifteen days before the date…

The file provided for in article L. 5211-50 is made available to the public under the conditions defined in this article at least fifteen days before the ballot. This file includes, in particular, the deliberation by which the consultation was decided, to which are appended the observations made by the members of the deliberative assembly on the occasion of this deliberation, as well as an information notice on the purpose…

The articles R. 1112-3 to R. 1112-8 and R. 1112-15 to R. 1112-17 are applicable to public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation. For their application, the text should read: “établissement public de coopération intercommunale” instead of: “territorial authority having decided on a referendum” and : “president of the public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation” for: “president of the executive body of the competent local authority” .

As soon as the counting of the votes in each commune is complete, the minutes, approved and signed, are taken by two members of the polling station to the polling station constituted as a centralising office which has been designated by the deliberative body of the public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation. This centralising office takes a general count of the votes. The results for each commune and the accompanying documents…

Expenditure resulting from the organisation of the consultation by a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation shall be charged to the appropriations allocated to the operating section of the budget of the public establishment.