Section 3: Resignation and dissolution

When a departmental councillor tenders his resignation, he sends it to the president of the departmental council, who immediately notifies the representative of the State in the department. .

Any member of a departmental council who, without a valid excuse, has refused to carry out one of the duties devolved upon him by the laws shall be declared to have resigned by the administrative court. The refusal results either from an express declaration addressed to whom it may concern or made public by its author, or from persistent abstention after warning from the convening authority. A member who resigns…

When the operation of a departmental council proves impossible, the government may pronounce its dissolution by reasoned decree taken in the Council of Ministers; it shall inform Parliament of this as soon as possible. Dissolution may never be pronounced by means of a general measure.

In the event of the dissolution of the departmental council, the resignation of all its serving members or the definitive annulment of the election of all its members, the president is responsible for the conduct of current business. His decisions are enforceable only with the agreement of the representative of the State in the département. The departmental council is re-elected within two months. The assembly meets as of right on…