TITLE III: REVENUE

Investments for which communes and their groupings are likely to receive investment grants from the State that cannot be aggregated in the equipment grant for rural areas may not give rise to subsidies. The missions, programmes and actions corresponding to the investments mentioned in the first paragraph are defined in Annex VII of this code.

The grant application is submitted by the mayor or the president of the competent inter-communal public cooperation establishment or signatory of the agreement provided for in the penultimate paragraph of article L. 2334-33 or in the second sentence of the first paragraph of C of article L. 2334-42 when these derogations are applied. The list of documents to be produced in support of the application for the application of article…

Within three months of the date of receipt of the grant application, the Prefect will inform the applicant that the application is complete, as defined in article R. 2334-22, or will request the production of any missing documents. In the latter case, the deadline is suspended. In the absence of notification of the administration’s response by the end of the three-month period, the application is deemed to be complete.

I. – No grant may be awarded if execution of the operation has begun before the date on which the grant application is received by the competent authority. Commencement of execution of the operation is constituted by the first legal act passed for the carrying out of the operation or, in the case of work carried out on a direct basis, by the constitution of supplies or the start of…

Confirmation of the completeness of the application and a waiver granted on the basis of II of article R. 2334-24 do not constitute a decision to award the grant. An application for a grant is deemed to have been rejected if it has not been the subject of an award decision no later than during the financial year following that in respect of which the application was made. If, after…

The order awarding the grant must mention: a) The designation and characteristics of the operation, the nature and estimated amount excluding tax of the subsidisable expenditure; b) The estimated timetable for the operation, the estimated amount of the grant and its rate; c) The deadlines provided for in articles R. 2334-28 and R. 2334-29; d) The terms of payment of the grant provided for in article R. 2334-30 as well…

The rate of subsidy may not be less than 20% of the provisional amount of subsidisable expenditure excluding tax. When they contribute to the financing of investment projects, the dotation d’équipement des territoires ruraux, the dotation politique de la ville, the dotation de soutien à l’investissement local and the dotation de soutien à l’investissement des départements may not represent, used alone or in combination, more than 80% of the provisional…