The departmental council adopts the departmental social assistance regulations defining the rules according to which social assistance benefits falling within the department’s remit are granted. The departmental council contributes to delinquency prevention actions under the conditions set out in article L. 132-15 of the Internal Security Code.
The departmental council, unless it has delegated its competence to the president, pursuant to article L. 3211-2, awards and withdraws grants maintained from departmental funds, on the reasoned advice of: 1° The head of the establishment and the board of directors, for public educational establishments; 2° The head of the establishment, for private educational establishments. The competent authority may pronounce withdrawal in cases of urgency; it shall immediately give notice…
The departmental council decides on projects, plans and estimates for works to be carried out using departmental funds and designates the departments to which these works will be entrusted. It decides on concessions to associations, companies or private individuals for works of departmental interest.
The departmental council rules: 1° On the department’s contributory share of expenditure that concerns both the department and the communes; 2° On the contributory share to be imposed on the department in works carried out by the State that concern the department; 3° On difficulties raised in relation to the apportionment of the expenditure of works that concern several communes in the department. .
The president of the departmental council is the executive body of the department. He prepares and executes the deliberations of the departmental council.
The President of the Departmental Council is the authorising officer for departmental expenditure and prescribes the execution of departmental revenue, subject to the specific provisions of the General Tax Code relating to the collection of local authority tax revenue. He charges to the investment section capital expenditure relating to movable assets not included on the lists and of a value below a threshold set by decree of the ministers responsible…
The President of the Departmental Council is solely responsible for administration. He may delegate by decree, under his supervision and responsibility, the exercise of part of his functions to the vice-presidents. He may also delegate part of his duties, under the same conditions, to members of the departmental council in the absence or impediment of the vice-presidents or when they all hold a delegation. These delegations remain in force until…
The president of the departmental council manages the department’s property. In this capacity, he exercises the police powers pertaining to this management, in particular with regard to traffic on this domain, subject to the powers devolved to mayors by this code and to the representative of the State in the department as well as the power of substitution of the representative of the State in the department provided for in…
The president of the departmental council or, where he is the authority holding traffic police powers, the mayor or the president of the public establishment for inter-communal cooperation may set, for sections of roads outside built-up areas under his jurisdiction and not comprising at least two lanes assigned to the same direction of traffic, a maximum authorised speed 10 km/h higher than that provided for in the highway code. This…
The representative of the State in the department may, in the event that this has not been done by the president of the departmental council, and after formal notice has remained without result, exercise the powers devolved to the president of the departmental council in police matters by virtue of the provisions of article L. 3221-4. .
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