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Article 201
The organization, the functioning, [and] the other missions and attributions of the
National Army, of the National Gendarmerie, of the National Police and of the
National and Nomadic Guard[,] are established by the Law.
Title XII: Of the Decentralized Territorial
Collectivities
• Subsidiary unit government
Article 202
The Decentralized Territorial Collectivities of the Republic of Chad are:
• the rural communities [communautés];
• the communes;
• the departments;
• the regions.
Article 203
The Decentralized Territorial Collectivities are endowed with juridical personality.
Their administrative, financial, patrimonial, [and] economic autonomy is guaranteed
by the Constitution.
Article 204
The Decentralized Territorial Collectivities administer themselves freely by elected
Assemblies which govern by their deliberations the matters which are devolved to
them by the Constitution and by the law.
The deliberations of the local Assemblies are executory of plain right on their
publication.
However, they may not be contrary to the constitutional, legislative and regulatory
provisions.
Article 205
The members of the local Assemblies are elected by universal direct suffrage for a
mandate of six years renewable.
Article 206
The local Assemblies elect[,] from within themselves[,] executive organs for a
mandate of three years renewable.
The executive organs are responsible before the local Assemblies.
Chad 1996 (rev. 2005)
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