French General Code of Local Authorities
In forceIn matters of water and watercourse management, drinking water supply, collective or non-collective sanitation, collection or treatment of household and similar waste, or distribution of electricity or natural gas or local electronic communications networks and services, a mixed syndicate covered by this Title may join another mixed syndicate defined in this Title or established pursuant to Article L. 5721-2, following the procedure defined in Article L. 5211-18.The accession of a semi-public association to another semi-public association does not affect the rules governing the latter.
When the semi-public association that joins another semi-public association transfers to it all of the competences that it exercises, the joining entails its dissolution.
The members of the dissolved syndicat mixte automatically become members of the remaining syndicat mixte.
Unless there is a statutory provision to the contrary, they are allocated the same number of seats on the union committee as the dissolved public-private union had.
All the assets, rights and obligations of the dissolved public-private union are transferred to the public-private union to which it belongs. The latter is substituted ipso jure, for the exercise of its powers, for the dissolved joint association in all its deliberations and all its acts.
Contracts are performed under the previous conditions until they expire, unless the parties agree otherwise. The co-contracting parties are informed of the substitution of legal entity by the joint association that remains. The substitution does not entail any right to termination or compensation for the co-contractor.
The transfer is made free of charge and does not give rise to the payment of any indemnity, duty, tax, contribution provided for in Article 879 of the General Tax Code or fees.
All of the staff of the dissolved joint association is deemed to come under the joint association to which it belongs under its own conditions of status and employment.
The transfers of competences are carried out under the financial and asset conditions provided for in the fourth and fifth paragraphs of article L. 5211-17.
