French General Code of Local Authorities
In forceThe municipal council deliberates in particular on the following matters:
1° The creation and abolition of permanent communal jobs in the communal administration;
2° The allocation of retirement pensions to municipal employees covered by communal pension funds;
3° The creation of communal services, bodies and establishments ;
4° The acquisition, alienation and pledging of communal property, the constitution and cancellation of real estate rights, the insurance of communal buildings against fire, the terms of farm or rental leases, as well as the division of property that the commune owns in undivided ownership with other owners;
5° Borrowing ;
6° Building or reconstruction projects, as well as major repairs and demolitions;
7° The opening and modification of communal roads and public squares, as well as their alignment plans;
8° The acceptance of gifts and legacies;
9° Acts of renunciation and gifts from the communes ;
10° The allocation of grants for general interest and charitable purposes;
11° The cancellation of mortgage registrations made in favour of the commune and the withdrawal of formalities for the purging of mortgages;
12° The exercise of the right to graze and range;
13° Guarantee commitments;
14° Transactions.
In addition, the municipal council deliberates on matters that laws and regulations refer to it for consideration.
In municipalities belonging to a conurbation of more than 100,000 inhabitants, the municipal council deliberates on the conditions for exercising hunting rights on land subject to heavy public use.
