If the owner or his assigns fail to maintain an undeveloped plot of land or part of an undeveloped plot of land located within a residential area or at a maximum distance of 50 metres from dwellings, outbuildings, building sites, workshops or factories belonging to him, the mayor may, for environmental reasons, notify him by order of the obligation to carry out, at his expense, the work to restore the land after formal notice.
If, by the date specified in the formal notice order, the prescribed work to restore the land or part of the land has not been carried out, the mayor may have it carried out automatically at the expense of the owner or his successors.
If the owner or, in the case of joint ownership, one or more of the joint owners cannot be identified, the notification concerning them is validly made to the town hall.
A decree in the Conseil d’Etat sets out the terms and conditions for the application of this article.