I. – The rates of property tax and council tax on second homes and other furnished premises not allocated to the principal dwelling voted by a municipality may not exceed two and a half times the average rate recorded the previous year for the same tax in all the municipalities in the department or two and a half times the average rate recorded at national level if this is higher.
For the application of the first paragraph to the communes located on the territory of the Lyon metropolis, the average rate of a tax recorded the previous year in all the communes of the department is understood to mean the average rate recorded the previous year in all the communes located on the territory of the Lyon metropolis.
II. and III. – (Disjoint)
IV. – The business property tax rate voted by a commune may not exceed twice the average rate of this tax recorded the previous year at national level for all communes.
V. – For communes that are members of a grouping with its own tax system, the ceiling rates provided for in I and IV are reduced by the rate applied the previous year for the benefit of the grouping.
VI. – (Repealed).
VII. – (Repealed).
VIII. – The business property tax rate voted by the Greater Paris metropolitan area may not exceed twice the average rate recorded in the previous year at national level for all the public establishments for intercommunal cooperation subject to Article 1609 nonies C.
IX. – The rates of property tax on built-up properties, property tax on non-built-up properties and council tax on secondary residences and other furnished premises not allocated to the principal dwelling voted by the City of Paris may not exceed two and a half times the average municipal rate recorded the previous year at national level.