The communes, public establishments for inter-communal cooperation with their own tax status and the Lyon metropolitan area may, by deliberation taken before 1 July of the year preceding that of taxation and relating to one or more of these categories, totally exempt or allow a 50% reduction:
– signs, other than those fixed to the ground, if the sum of their surface areas is less than or equal to 12 square metres;
– pre-standing signs greater than 1.5 square metres;
– pre-standing signs less than or equal to 1.5 square metres;
– advertising devices dependent on municipal billboard concessions;
– advertising devices affixed to elements of street furniture or newspaper kiosks;
Signs whose sum area is greater than 12 square metres and less than or equal to 20 square metres may be subject to a 50% reduction.
In the case of advertising devices affixed to elements of street furniture or newspaper kiosks or dependent on municipal poster concessions, the introduction or removal of the exemption or reduction applies only to contracts or agreements for which the call for tenders or competitive bidding was launched after the deliberation relating to such introduction or removal.