Paragraph 2: The Chairman.

The president is the executive body of the public establishment of intermunicipal cooperation. He prepares and executes the deliberations of the deliberative body of the public establishment of intermunicipal cooperation. He is the authorising officer for the expenditure and prescribes the execution of the revenue of the public establishment of intermunicipal cooperation. He has sole responsibility for administration, but may delegate by decree, under his supervision and responsibility, the exercise…

I. – A. – Without prejudice to article L. 2212-2, of the present code and by derogation from article L. 1311-2 and the second paragraph of article L. 1331-1 of the public health code when a public inter-communal cooperation establishment with its own tax authority is competent in the area of sanitation, the mayors of the communes that are members of the latter transfer to the president of this establishment…