PART TWO: THE MUNICIPALITY

The credits from the allocation referred to in Article L. 2334-32 are allocated by the State representative in the department to the beneficiaries mentioned in article L. 2334-33, in the form of grants to carry out investments, as well as projects in the economic, social, environmental, sporting and tourist fields or promoting the development or maintenance of public services in rural areas. The grant must not have the effect of…

In each department, a commission is set up under the State representative, made up of: 1° Representatives of the mayors of communes with a population not exceeding 20,000 in metropolitan departments and 35,000 in overseas departments; 2° Representatives of the presidents of public establishments for inter-communal cooperation with their own tax status whose population does not exceed 60,000 in the departments of mainland France and 150,000 in the overseas departments…

Investments for which communes and their own tax groupings are likely to receive State subsidies, the list of which is set by regulation, may not be subsidised under the dotation d’équipement des territoires ruraux.

A decree in the Council of State shall lay down the detailed rules for the application of this section.