In municipalities with 80,000 inhabitants or more, the limit set in article L. 2122-2 may be exceeded with a view to the creation of deputy posts with primary responsibility for one or more wards, although the number of deputy posts may not exceed 10% of the legal number of members of the municipal council.
When any obstacle whatsoever, or remoteness, makes communications between the chief town and a fraction of a commune difficult, dangerous or temporarily impossible, a post of special deputy may be instituted by reasoned deliberation of the town council. One or more posts of special deputy may also be instituted in the event of a merger of communes.
The Town Council elects the mayor and deputy mayors from among its members by secret ballot. No person may be elected mayor who is not at least eighteen years of age. The office of mayor is incompatible with the exercise of one of the following elective offices: president of a regional council, president of a departmental council . The offices of mayor are also incompatible with those of member of…
A municipal councillor who does not have French nationality may not be elected mayor or deputy mayor, nor may he or she hold office, even temporarily.
Agency employees involved in municipal accounting, the assessment, collection or control of all taxes and duties may not be mayors or deputy mayors, nor may they perform their duties, even temporarily, in all municipalities in their department of administrative residence that are located within the jurisdiction of their department of assignment. The same incompatibility applies in all the municipalities of the department to which they are assigned to senior Treasury…
The offices of mayor, deputy mayor, deputy mayor and deputy deputy mayor are incompatible with those of a serving member of the armed forces.
The mayor’s salaried employees may not be deputy mayors if this salaried activity is directly linked to the exercise of the mayor’s mandate.
The mayor is elected by secret ballot and by an absolute majority. If, after two ballots, no candidate has obtained an absolute majority, a third ballot is held and the election takes place by relative majority. In the event of a tie, the oldest candidate is declared elected.
In communes with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants, deputies are elected under the conditions set out in Article L. 2122-7. When it is necessary, in the event of a vacancy, to appoint a new deputy, the Town Council may decide that he or she will occupy, in the order of the table, the same rank as the elected representative who previously occupied the post that has become vacant.
In municipalities with a population of 1,000 or more, deputy councillors are elected by an absolute majority of the votes cast, without any combination of votes or preferential votes. The list is composed alternately of one candidate of each sex. If, after two ballots, no list has obtained an absolute majority, a third ballot is held and the election takes place by relative majority. In the event of a tie,…
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