The operating expenses of departmental libraries, made the responsibility of the departments, are compensated under the conditions provided by articles L. 1614-1 to L. 1614-3.
However, the appropriations from the general decentralisation grant corresponding to the expenditure borne by the State, in the year prior to the transfer of powers, in respect of movable and material equipment linked to the bringing into service of new buildings, the maintenance of buildings, the purchase of vehicles and the remuneration of seasonal agents, are distributed between the beneficiary departments in proportion to the population of the communes with less than 10,000 inhabitants.