Subsection 5: Transfers of property, rights and obligations.

Buildings and movable property forming part of the public domain of the municipalities belonging to the conurbation are assigned ipso jure to the urban community, as soon as it is established, insofar as they are necessary for the exercise of the community’s powers. The definitive transfer of ownership and of the rights and obligations attached to the transferred assets is effected by amicable agreement. Failing an amicable agreement, a decree…

A decree in the Conseil d’Etat will set the conditions for the completion of operations decided upon by communes, unions of communes before the transfer of competences, in particular with regard to the financing of these operations.

A decree in the Conseil d’Etat sets the conditions under which the technical services of the urban community provide maintenance for roads temporarily retained by the communes. In addition, in the other areas of competence retained by the communes, the urban community may, under the conditions laid down by deliberation of the community council, make its technical services available to those of the communes that so request. The mayor directly…

Within the perimeter of the conurbation in which the urban community exercises its powers, roads may be redistributed between the State, the département and the urban community. The corresponding classifications and declassifications take place after a public enquiry carried out in accordance with the code of relations between the public and the administration and consultation with the community council and the departmental council. They are pronounced either by joint order…