I. – A prefectoral order sets the date for the election of the members of the commission mentioned in 1°,2°, and 3° of Article L. 5211-43, lists the various colleges constituted pursuant to Articles R. 5211-20 and R. 5211-21 and defines the procedures for the material organisation of the ballot.
This same order sets the closing dates and times for the submission of candidacies to the departmental prefecture.
II. – The lists of candidates must include a number of candidates fifty percent greater than the number of seats to be filled, rounded up to the next whole number.
These lists must be drawn up in accordance with the provisions of articles R. 5211-20 and R. 5211-21.
No one may be a candidate in respect of different colleges.
III. – At the end of the period for the submission of candidacies referred to in the second paragraph of I, the representative of the State in the department shall notify the candidates, at their request, of the candidacies submitted. When a single list of candidates is drawn up in accordance with the conditions laid down in II, submitted by the departmental association of mayors, and other individual or collective applications that do not satisfy these conditions are submitted for the appointment of representatives of the colleges mentioned in 1°, 2° or 3° of article L. 5211-43, a period of three working days is granted to the latter in order to constitute a list or lists satisfying these conditions.
The list or lists of candidates constituted in accordance with the conditions set out in II are determined by the State representative in the department.