Book III: Health protection and the environment

When a new public collection network is built or when a public rainwater collection network is incorporated into a network designed to receive domestic wastewater, the municipality may automatically carry out the parts of the connections located under the public highway, up to and including the manhole closest to the boundary of the public domain. In the case of buildings constructed after the public sewerage system was put into service,…

Where the connection is made via a private road, and without prejudice to the provisions of articles L. 171-12 and L. 171-13 of the Code de la voirie (Road Code) relating to compulsory drainage and the compulsory classification of private roads in Paris, the cost of the work undertaken by the municipality to carry out the public part of the connections, as defined in article L. 1331-2, are reimbursed by…

The works required to bring wastewater to the public part of the connection are the sole responsibility of the owners and must be built under the conditions set out in article L. 1331-1. They must be maintained in good working order by the owners.

As soon as the connection is established, pits and other similar installations must be put out of use or prevented from creating future nuisances, by the owner and at his expense.

If the owner fails to comply with the obligations set out in articles L. 1331-1, L. 1331-1-1, L. 1331-4 and L. 1331-5, the municipality may, after formal notice, carry out the necessary work on its own initiative and at the owner’s expense. The Lyon metropolitan authority is substituted for the municipalities located within its perimeter for the application of the provisions of this article.

Owners of properties subject to the obligation to connect to the public wastewater collection network in application of article L. 1331-1 may be required by the municipality, the Lyon metropolitan area, the public inter-municipal cooperation body or the mixed syndicate with jurisdiction over collective sewerage, to pay a contribution towards the financing of collective sewerage, in order to take into account the savings they have made by avoiding the need…

The owner of a building or establishment whose wastewater comes from uses of water that are considered to be domestic in application ofarticle L. 213-10-2 of the Environment Code is entitled, at his request, to be connected to the public collection network within the limits of the transport and treatment capacities of the existing installations or those under construction. The owner may be required to pay a contribution to the…

As long as the owner has not complied with the obligations set out in articles L. 1331-1 to L. 1331-7-1, he is required to pay a sum at least equivalent to the fee he would have paid to the public sewerage service if his building had been connected to the network or equipped with a statutory independent sewerage system, and which may be increased by a proportion set by the…

The sums owed by the owner under articles L. 1331-2, L. 1331-3 and L. 1331-6 to L. 1331-8 are collected in the same way as direct taxes. Claims are presented and judged in the same way as for direct taxation.

All discharges of non-domestic wastewater into the public sewerage system must be authorised in advance by the mayor or, where responsibility for sewerage at the point of discharge has been transferred to a public institution for inter-municipal cooperation or to a mixed syndicate, by the president of the public institution or mixed syndicate, after receiving an opinion from the public body responsible for wastewater transport and treatment and for downstream…