The mayor may convene the municipal council whenever he deems it useful.
He is obliged to convene it within a maximum of thirty days when a reasoned request is made to him by the State representative in the department or by at least one third of the members of the municipal council in office in communes of 1,000 inhabitants or more and by a majority of the members of the municipal council in communes of less than 1,000 inhabitants.
In urgent cases, the representative of the State in the department may shorten this period.