Association of local authorities
An association of local authorities is a public intermunicipal cooperation institute French (EPCI)((PUBLIC INTERMUNICIPAL COOPERATION INSTITUTE)) with clean(appropriate) tax system, which plans an integration limited by the member municipalities.
She(It) is defined as being:
" [] a public intermunicipal cooperation institute grouping(including) several municipalities all in one piece and without enclave.
It has for object to associate municipalities within a space of solidarity, with the aim of the elaboration of a common project of development and space layout. "
- At the beginning of the article L 5214-1 of the general Code of communities territoriales.1
The association of local authorities can be created for duration limitée2.
By the population as by the degree of cooperation, she(it) establishes(constitutes) the shape the least the integrated(joined) by EPCI(PUBLIC INTERMUNICIPAL COOPERATION INSTITUTES) into clean(appropriate) tax system, and is conceived(designed) to facilitate Clean(Appropriate), and is conceived(designed) to facilitate the local management of the little urbanized space.
Nature of the association of local authorities
The association of local authorities offers a new conception(design) of the local power, by integrating(joining) the idea of project where there was only a management. Indeed, the SIVU or the SIVOM have other vocation no than to manage equipments or infrastructures, often of network, such the gas, the electricity, the water or the waste. One and the same municipality adheres generally to several intermunicipal structures, but can belong only to a single EPCI(PUBLIC INTERMUNICIPAL COOPERATION INSTITUTE) with clean(appropriate) tax system.
So, he(it) is frequent for a municipality to be a member of one or two SIVU, a SIVOM, a SICTOM, a mixed labor union(syndicate) and an association of local authorities. If the community of municipality acquires a skill(competence) managed by another links between local authorities, this one is dissolved if it did not manage that this skill(competence) (SIVU), or is Removed from the skills of the aforementioned links between local authorities, in conformance with(for) the principle of speciality and exclusivity of EPCI(PUBLIC INTERMUNICIPAL COOPERATION INSTITUTES) with clean(appropriate) tax system.
The association of local authorities, with its clean(appropriate) tax system, has obviously skills of management; but also of elaboration, creation, in brief, of project. This established fact is even more valid for associations of metropolitan areas, and even more developed within urban communities(districts). The links between local authorities thus evolved, because the project, with the exception of the former(old) district, was never an intermunicipal vocation, and it since the first forms in 1837 and the labor-union committees(commissions) of management for the undivided properties(goods) between municipalities.
Limits
Nevertheless, the existence of certain associations of local authorities has for foundation no cooperation more moved closer between municipalities, but a vocation to establish(constitute) on intermunicipal territory, to avoid in the member municipalities to be unwillingly joined, via the prefect, within a more important intermunicipal structure into terms of demography. This phenomenon concerns especially rural districts close to associations of metropolitan areas or to more populated associations of local authorities.