These conventions do not give new powers to mayors but they give them a method of applying police power that they already have and act in the face of certain “low gravity” offenses, for example in the event of neighborhood conflict, incivility, minor damage or even illegal dumping of waste.
These conventions allow them to have direct access to the judicial authority, answers to their question and that this leads to a more systematic answer, that is to say a simple recall the order, be one financial compensation when there is degradation of property of the municipality or even “an unpaid activity for the benefit of the municipality”, a kind of work of general interest.
The objective, according to the Coutances prosecutor’s office, is “provide faster and more local responses to everyday incivilities and strengthen the authority of mayors“.
The signatory municipalities are Percy in Normandy, Maupertuis, Montbray, Bourguenolles, Marqueray, La Colombe, Sainte-Cécile, Le Tanu, La Haye-Bellefond, Morigny, Coulouvray-Boisbenâtre, Villedieu-les-Poêles-Rouffigny)