The president alone has the police of the assembly. He may have any individual who disturbs order expelled from the audience or arrested. In the event of a crime or misdemeanour, he draws up a report, which is immediately referred to the public prosecutor.
The minutes of each meeting, drawn up by one of the secretaries, are approved at the beginning of the following meeting and signed by the chairman and secretary. The minutes shall contain the date and time of the meeting, the names of the Chairman, the members of the County Council present or represented and the secretary or secretaries of the meeting, the quorum, the agenda for the meeting, the resolutions…
The departmental council may not deliberate unless an absolute majority of its members in office are present. However, if, on the day fixed by the notice convening the meeting, the departmental council does not meet in sufficient number to deliberate, the meeting is held ipso jure three days later and the deliberations are then valid regardless of the number of those present. Subject to the provisions of articles L. 3122-1…
The standing committee may not deliberate unless an absolute majority of its members in office are present or represented. The second and last paragraphs of Article L. 3121-14 shall apply to the standing committee.
Votes are taken by open ballot whenever one-sixth of the members present so request. In the event of a tie, the Chairman has the casting vote. Nonetheless, votes on appointments are always taken by secret ballot in cases where the law or regulations expressly provide for this. In other cases, the departmental council may decide unanimously not to make appointments by secret ballot. If only one nomination has been submitted…
A departmental councillor unable to attend a meeting may give a voting delegation for that meeting to another member of the departmental assembly. A departmental councillor may receive only one delegation.
Any person has the right to request communication of the deliberations and minutes of the public meetings of the departmental council, the deliberations of the permanent committee, the budgets and accounts of the department and the decrees of the president. Each person may publish them under his or her own responsibility. The documents referred to in the second paragraph, which may be obtained both from the president of the departmental…
Every member of the departmental council has the right, within the scope of his or her function, to be informed of departmental affairs that are the subject of deliberation.
The departmental council ensures the dissemination of information to its elected members by the material means it deems most appropriate. In order to enable the exchange of information on matters within its remit, the departmental council may, under the conditions defined by its deliberative assembly, make available to its elected members, on an individual basis, the necessary IT and telecommunications resources.
At least twelve days before the meeting of the departmental council, the chairman sends the departmental councillors a report, in whatever form, on each of the matters to be submitted to them. The reports may be made available to councillors who so wish by secure electronic means; this availability is the subject of a notice sent to each of these councillors under the conditions provided for in the first paragraph….
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