Subsection 1: The Borough Council

To exercise the powers of the arrondissement council, the city council or the Paris council delegates, in the cases and under the conditions that it determines, to the arrondissement council the power to prepare, award, execute and settle contracts for works, supplies and services that may be awarded without prior formalities due to their amount. When this delegation is granted to a borough, it is thereby given to all the…

The articles L. 2131-1 to L. 2131-6 and L. 2131-8 are applicable, subject to the provisions below, to the deliberations of the arrondissement councils, with the exception of those taken in application of section 2 of this chapter and the opinions issued by these councils. The deliberations of the arrondissement councils are sent to the mayor of the commune or to the mayor of Paris. The latter shall forward them…

Associations take part in municipal life. In each arrondissement a borough initiative and consultation committee is created. This committee brings together representatives of local associations or members of national federations or confederations who so request and who carry out their activities in the arrondissement. During at least one meeting per quarter, the representatives of these associations participate, if they so request, in the debates of the arrondissement council, in an…