Question 12147 — municipalities

Summary

Mr. Pierrick Courbon questions the Minister of the Interior on the procedure and terms of demerger of two municipalities and more particularly on the situation of the municipalities of Saint-Victor-sur-Loire and Saint-Étienne. Due to the lack of geographical continuity between the two municipalities, the merger of the two communities required a special procedure, with an opinion from the Council of State delivered on October 9, 1969, which officially recorded this merger. The latter was even to result in a new name for the merged commune, with the name “Saint-Étienne-sur-Loire” which will never really be used. At the time, it was a question of Saint-Étienne gaining direct access to the Loire River and a sector of major tourist interest, and Saint-Victor benefiting from a significant financial windfall to make possible investments that the small municipality at the time did not have the means to achieve this. As part of this merger, Saint-Victor-sur-Loire logically did not obtain the status of “associated municipality” and therefore became a full-fledged district of the city of Saint-Étienne, despite the absence of geographical coherence and unity of its living area. Indeed, although this merger is now old, the Saint-Victor-sur-Loire district is more anchored in the basin demographic and economic life of the commune of Roche-la-Molière and the Loire gorges and appears detached from Saint-Étienne on numerous issues and municipal public policies. Thus, a procedure for the demerger of this district, requested by certain residents, could be considered, whether for the return to a proper municipal entity for Saint-Victor-sur-Loire, in a context now marked by the advent of the fact intercommunal, or for attachment to another municipality, in this case the municipality of Roche-la-Molière. He therefore asks what would be the procedure and modalities for a demerger between two municipalities, particularly in the particular situation of geographical non-continuity and absence of coherence of the demographic and economic living area and, if necessary, of attachment to another municipality.

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