I. – Any public authority that owns land located within the close protection perimeters of water extraction points intended for human consumption and that intends to prescribe land use methods to the lessee in order to preserve the quality of the water resource, when renewing rural leases covering this land, shall notify the lessee of these prescriptions at least eighteen months before the expiry of the current lease.
If the local authority notifies the lessee of new requirements before the end of his lease, but after the eighteen month period provided for in the first paragraph, these may only come into force after a period of eighteen months from this notification.
II. – The notification provided for in I is made by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or by extrajudicial document. It shall state the reasons justifying the restrictions and the plots of land concerned and shall specify that the decision may be appealed to the administrative court within a period of two months.