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Article L5217-3 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Without prejudice to article L. 2212-2 and notwithstanding article L. 2213-32, the president of the metropolitan council exercises the powers enabling him to regulate external fire defence. Without prejudice to article L. 2212-2 and notwithstanding articles L. 2213-1 to L. 2213-6-1, the president of the council of the metropolis exercises the prerogatives of the mayors with regard to the traffic and parking police on intercommunal roads outside built-up areas.

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Article L5217-4 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The metropolis is automatically substituted for the public establishment for intercommunal cooperation with its own tax status whose transformation is mentioned in article L. 5217-1. The substitution of the metropolis for the public intercommunal cooperation establishment is carried out under the conditions provided for in the last two paragraphs of article L. 5211-41.

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Article L5217-7 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

I. – Articles L. 5215-16 to L. 5215-18, L. 5215-21, L. 5215-26 to L. 5215-29, L. 5215-40 and L. 5215-42 are applicable to metropolitan areas. For the application of article L. 5211-17, the majority conditions required are those set out in article L. 5211-5. II. – When some of the member communes of a syndicat de communes or a syndicat mixte form part of a metropolis, as a result of…

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Article L5217-9 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The European metropolis of Lille and the Strasbourg eurometropolis involve the local public authorities of the neighbouring country, cross-border bodies and the European territorial cooperation groupings of which they are members in the work of the metropolis’s development council, in accordance with the procedures determined by the metropolis council’s rules of procedure. In Strasbourg, the Eurometropolis Development Council includes representatives of European institutions and organisations.

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Article L5217-10-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The metropolitan authority’s budget is the act by which the annual revenue and expenditure of the metropolitan authority are forecast and authorised. The budget voted must be balanced in terms of expenditure and revenue. The metropolitan authority’s budget is drawn up in an operating section and an investment section, both in terms of revenue and expenditure. Certain interventions, activities or services are individualised within annexed budgets. The budget of the…

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Article L5217-10-2 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Prior to the debates on the draft budget, the president of the metropolitan council shall present a report on the situation with regard to sustainable development concerning the operation of the metropolitan authority, the policies it pursues on its territory and the guidelines and programmes likely to improve this situation and contribute to achieving the sustainable development objectives included in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted on 25 September…

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Article L5217-10-3 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The allocation of grants is decided separately from the budget vote. However, for grants for which there are no conditions of award, the Metropolitan Council may decide: 1° To individualise the appropriations per beneficiary in the budget; or 2° To draw up, in a statement attached to the budget, a list of beneficiaries with, for each of them, the purpose and amount of the grant. The individualisation of appropriations or…

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