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Article 207
The State assures the protection of the Decentralized Territorial Collectivities. It is
represented before them by the heads of deconcentrated administrative units given
the charge of defending the national interests and of having the laws and regulations
respected.
Article 208
The State sees to the harmonious development of all the Decentralized Territorial
Collectivities on the basis of national solidarity, of regional potential and of
inter-regional equilibrium.
Article 209
• Reference to science
The Decentralized Territorial Collectivities assure within the limits of their
territorial resort and with the concurrence of the State:
• the public security;
• the administration and the management of the territory;
• the economic, social, health , cultural and scientific development;
• the protection of the environment.
The law determines the division of the competences in consideration of the local and
national interests.
Article 210
The Decentralized Territorial Collectivities vote and administer [gèrent] their
budgets.
Article 211
The resources of the Decentralized Territorial Collectivities are constituted notably
by:
• the revenues of the imposts and taxes voted by the Assemblies of the
Decentralized Territorial Collectivities and collected directly by them;
• the part that reverts to them[,] of right[,] from the revenues of imposts and
taxes collected to the profit of the budget of the State;
• the revenues of the endowments and the subsidies attributed by the State;
• the revenues of the loans contracted by the Decentralized Territorial
Collectivities, either on the internal market, or on the external market after
the agreement of the national monetary authorities, with or without
guaranty of the State;
• the gifts and bequests;
• the revenues of their patrimony;
• the percentage on the revenues of the resources of the soil and of the
sub-soil exploited on their territory.
Article 212
The rules relative to the juridical status, to the organization, to the functioning and to
the attributions of the Decentralized Territorial Collectivities as well as their
relations with the central power are established by an organic law.
Chad 1996 (rev. 2005)
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