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mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefektura_(Francie)" title="Prefektura (Francie) – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Prefektura (Francie)" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A4fektur_(Frankreich)" title="Präfektur (Frankreich) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Präfektur (Frankreich)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefektuur_(Prantsusmaa)" title="Prefektuur (Prantsusmaa) – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Prefektuur (Prantsusmaa)" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A9fecture_en_France" title="Préfecture en France – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Préfecture en France" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%A4%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%92%E1%83%94%E1%83%97%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%9E%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%A4%E1%83%94%E1%83%A5%E1%83%A2%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%98" title="საფრანგეთის პრეფექტურები – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="საფრანგეთის პრეფექტურები" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku 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title="Regions of France">region</a> is located;</li> <li>the jurisdiction of a prefecture;</li> <li>the official residence or headquarters of a <a href="/wiki/Prefect_(France)" title="Prefect (France)">prefect</a>.</li></ul> <p>Although the administration of departments and regions is distinct, a regional prefect is <i><a href="/wiki/Ex_officio_member" title="Ex officio member">ex officio</a></i> prefect of the department in which the regional prefecture is located. The officeholder has authority upon the other prefects in the region on a range of matters. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Role_of_the_prefecture">Role of the prefecture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prefectures_in_France&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Role of the prefecture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are 101 prefectures in <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>, one for each department. The official in charge is the <a href="/wiki/Prefect_(France)" title="Prefect (France)">prefect</a> (<a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">préfet</i>). The prefecture is an administration that belongs to the <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_the_Interior_(France)" title="Minister of the Interior (France)">Ministry of the Interior</a>; it is therefore in charge of the delivery of identity cards, driving licenses, passports, residency and work permits for foreigners, vehicle registration, registration of <a href="/wiki/Voluntary_association" title="Voluntary association">associations</a> (creation, status modification, dissolution), as well as of the management of the <a href="/wiki/National_Police_(France)" title="National Police (France)">National Police</a> and <a href="/wiki/Firefighter" title="Firefighter">firefighters</a>, although as of 2018, 79% of firefighters in France are part-time volunteers. </p><p>Prefectures are usually located near the geographic centre of their departments; they were originally chosen for being within a day's travel on horseback from anywhere in the department. Therefore, the largest settlement in a department may not always be its prefecture: the department of <a href="/wiki/Marne_(department)" title="Marne (department)">Marne</a>, for example, has its prefecture at <a href="/wiki/Ch%C3%A2lons-en-Champagne" title="Châlons-en-Champagne">Châlons-en-Champagne</a> despite the city of <a href="/wiki/Reims" title="Reims">Reims</a>, near the <a href="/wiki/Aisne" title="Aisne">Aisne</a> border, being four times its size. </p><p>The prefect represents the national government at the local level and as such exercises the powers that are constitutionally attributed to the national government. The prefect issues ordinances written for the application of local law: to close a building that does not conform to safety codes, or modify vehicular traffic regulations (speed limit, construction permits). </p><p>The governing body of the department is the <a href="/wiki/Departmental_councils_(France)" class="mw-redirect" title="Departmental councils (France)">departmental council</a> (<a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">Conseil départemental</i>), which is elected through a system of <a href="/wiki/Cantons_of_France" title="Cantons of France">cantons</a>. It is in charge of the building and maintenance of middle schools (<i>collèges</i>) and departmental roads, financial assistance to dependent people (disabled and elderly), as well as promotion of local economic development, amongst other matters. In the past, the prefect was head of the department, but since 1982, the <a href="/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_departmental_councils_(France)" title="List of presidents of departmental councils (France)">President of the Departmental Council</a> has assumed the role of chief executive of the department. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Parisian_exception">Parisian exception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prefectures_in_France&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Parisian exception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Petite_couronne.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Petite_couronne.svg/220px-Petite_couronne.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Petite_couronne.svg/330px-Petite_couronne.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Petite_couronne.svg/440px-Petite_couronne.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="264" data-file-height="264" /></a><figcaption>Petite Couronne</figcaption></figure> <p>There is an exception in <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> in the <a href="/wiki/%C3%8Ele-de-France" title="Île-de-France">Île-de-France</a> region and its three surrounding departments, known as the Petite Couronne ("Small Crown"): <a href="/wiki/Hauts-de-Seine" title="Hauts-de-Seine">Hauts-de-Seine</a> to the west, <a href="/wiki/Seine-Saint-Denis" title="Seine-Saint-Denis">Seine-Saint-Denis</a> to the northeast and <a href="/wiki/Val-de-Marne" title="Val-de-Marne">Val-de-Marne</a> to the southeast. 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This power is held by the Prefect of Police of Paris in the Petite Couronne. </p><p>In 2012, a similar structure was established in <a href="/wiki/Bouches-du-Rh%C3%B4ne" title="Bouches-du-Rhône">Bouches-du-Rhône</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Bouches-du-Rh%C3%B4ne_Police_Prefecture" title="Bouches-du-Rhône Police Prefecture">Bouches-du-Rhône Police Prefecture</a>, headed by the Prefect of Police of Bouches-du-Rhône, although it is formally less independent than that of Paris. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Divisions_of_departments">Divisions of departments</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prefectures_in_France&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Divisions of departments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Departments are divided into <a href="/wiki/Arrondissements_of_France" title="Arrondissements of France">arrondissements</a>, themselves divided into <a href="/wiki/Cantons_of_France" title="Cantons of France">cantons</a>. The <i>chef-lieu d'arrondissement</i> is the <a href="/wiki/Subprefectures_in_France" title="Subprefectures in France">subprefecture</a> (<a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">sous-préfecture</i>). The official in charge is the <a href="/wiki/Subprefect" title="Subprefect">subprefect</a> (<a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">sous-préfet</i>). There are relatively few competences associated to cantons, the most important one being the local organisation of elections, as cantons are electoral subdivisions. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prefectures_in_France&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_France" title="Administrative divisions of France">Administrative divisions of France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Departments_of_France" title="Departments of France">Departments of France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_France" title="Regions of France">Regions of France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subprefectures_in_France" title="Subprefectures in France">Subprefectures in France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Police_(France)" title="National Police (France)">National Police (France)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prefectures_in_France&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Le-ministere/Prefectures">"Préfectures"</a>. <i>www.interieur.gouv.fr</i> (in French)<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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