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Article LO6371-4 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Any net increase in charges resulting from transfers of powers between the State, the region or department of Guadeloupe or the municipality of Saint-Martin and the collectivity of Saint-Martin is accompanied by the concomitant transfer to the collectivity of Saint-Martin of the resources necessary for the normal exercise of these powers.

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Article LO6371-5 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The charges mentioned in article LO 6371-4 are compensated by the transfer of taxes, the global operating grant instituted by article L. 6364-3, the global grant for school construction and equipment instituted by article L. 6364-5 and, for the balance, by the allocation of a global compensation grant entered in the State budget. The Finance Act specifies the amount of this allocation each year. From the first year, it changes…

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Article LO6371-6 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The expenses corresponding to the exercise of the transferred competencies are subject to an evaluation prior to the transfer of said competencies. A consultative commission for the evaluation of expenses is created in the collectivity of Saint-Martin, chaired by a magistrate from the Chambre territoriale des comptes and composed of representatives of the State, the region and department of Guadeloupe and the collectivity of Saint-Martin. It is consulted on the…

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Article LO6371-8 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

I. – This article shall apply to services or parts of services that participate in the exercise of competencies of the State, the region of Guadeloupe or the department of Guadeloupe transferred to the collectivity of Saint-Martin. These services are transferred in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in this chapter and in accordance with the terms and conditions defined below. II. – Within eighteen months of the…

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Article LO6380-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

This article shall apply for a period of five years from the first election of the territorial council following the promulgation of the organic law no. 2007-223 of 21 February 2007 on statutory and institutional provisions relating to overseas France. All of the acts of the institutions of the collectivity shall be transmitted to the State representative for the purposes of legality control under the conditions provided for in Chapter…

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Article LO6411-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The archipelago of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon comprises the island of Saint-Pierre, the island of Miquelon-Langlade and the islands and islets dependent on them. It constitutes an overseas collectivity, governed by the article 74 of the Constitution, which takes the name of: “territorial collectivity of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon”. The territorial collectivity of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon is freely administered by its elected representatives and by local referendum, under the conditions laid down by the present code. The Republic…

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Article L6412-2 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

I. – The State representative implements the policies of the State in the local authority. He/she directs the services of the State subject to the exceptions listed exhaustively by a decree in the Conseil d’Etat. He alone is authorised to speak on behalf of the State before the Territorial Council and to commit the State to the local authority. II. – The representative of the State may take, for the…

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