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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: BUDGETS AND ACCOUNTS

Article L3311-2

Prior to the debates on the draft budget, the president of the departmental council presents a report on the sustainable development situation with regard to the operation of the local authority, the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Conditions for exercising departmental mandates

Article L3123-29

The president of the departmental council, the vice-presidents or the departmental councillors who have been delegated benefit, on the occasion of their functions, from protection organised by the dep…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE II: POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE DEPARTMENTAL COUNCIL

Article L3221-2

…pecific provisions of the general tax code relating to the collection of local authority tax revenues.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE II: DEPARTMENTS OF HAUTS-DE-SEINE, SEINE-SAINT-DENIS AND VAL-DE-MARNE

Article L3421-2

…Paris fire brigade and 37.5% of the capital costs of the barracks, in proportion to their populations. The departments of Seine-Saint-Denis, Hauts-de-Seine and Val-de-Marne contribute 45% of the opera…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
BOOK VI: LYON METROPOLITAN AREA

Article L3651-2

…hône department with a view to developing the transferred roads is transferred to the Lyon metropolis.The transfer automatically entails the updating of the town planning documents affected by the tra…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: ORGANISATION

Article L3631-2

The Metropolitan Council sits in Lyon. However, it may meet at any other location in the metropolitan area.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: ORGANISATION

Article L3632-2

…mpanied by an appended table summarising all the allowances allocated to the metropolitan councillors.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: OVERSEAS DEPARTMENTS

Article L3441-2

…bodies in the corresponding areas, including regional bodies dependent on United Nations institutions.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: POWERS

Article L3641-2

The metropolis of Lyon automatically exercises the powers that the laws, in their provisions not contrary to the present title, attribute to the department. The metropolis of Lyon exercises the powers…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VI: FINANCIAL AND ACCOUNTING PROVISIONS

Article L3661-2

Prior to the debates on the draft budget, the President of the Lyon Metropolitan Council shall present a report on the situation with regard to sustainable development concerning the operation of the…

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