CHAPTER III: Police powers relating to specific objects

The mayor is responsible for traffic policing on trunk roads, departmental roads and all public or private roads open to public traffic within built-up areas, subject to the powers devolved to the State representative in the department for trunk roads. Outside built-up areas, the mayor also exercises traffic policing over roads in the communal public road domain and the inter-communal public road domain, subject to the powers devolved to the…

Without prejudice to article L. 2213-1, the mayor may, by reasoned decree, set for all or part of the roads in the built-up area open to public traffic a maximum authorised speed lower than that laid down in the Highway Code, having regard to a need for road safety and traffic, mobility or environmental protection. The mayor may also, by reasoned decree, lay down rules derogating from those provided for…

The mayor may, by reasoned order, having regard to the requirements of traffic and environmental protection: 1° Prohibit at certain times access to certain roads in the built-up area or certain sections of road, or reserve such access, at certain times or permanently, for various categories of users or vehicles; 2° Regulate the stopping and parking of vehicles or certain categories of them, as well as access to neighbouring buildings;…

The mayor may, by reasoned order: 1° Institute, on a permanent or temporary basis, for vehicles assigned to a public service and for the exclusive needs of this service and, as part of their missions, for vehicles transporting cash, jewellery or precious metals, reserved parking spaces on the public roads of the built-up area ; 2° Reserve spaces on these same roads to facilitate the movement and parking of public…

When a commune is a member of a metropolis, an urban community or a conurbation community with competence in road matters whose territory is covered by a mobility plan, or a community of communes with competence in road matters whose territory is covered by a mobility plan, the parking of motor vehicles is either prohibited, or reserved for particular categories of vehicles, or limited in time, or subject to payment,…

The mayor may, by reasoned order, prohibit access to certain roads or parts of roads or certain sectors of the municipality to vehicles whose traffic on these roads or in these sectors is likely to compromise either public tranquillity, or air quality, or the protection of animal or plant species, or the protection of natural areas, landscapes or sites or their development for aesthetic, ecological, agricultural, forestry or tourist purposes….

I. – In order to combat air pollution, low mobility emission zones may be created in conurbations and in areas for which an atmospheric protection plan has been adopted, is being drawn up or is under review pursuant to article L. 222-4 du code de l’environnement, by the mayor or by the president of a public establishment for inter-communal cooperation with its own tax system when the latter has the…

I.-In order to facilitate the detection of breaches of traffic regulations adopted pursuant to Article L. 2213-4-1 and to enable evidence of these offences to be gathered and their perpetrators to be tracked down, fixed or mobile automated vehicle identification data monitoring systems may be implemented by the national police and gendarmerie services or by the municipal police services of the municipalities in whose territory a low mobility emission zone…

The mayor may, by reasoned order, prohibit access to certain roads or sections of roads for vehicles transporting hazardous materials covered by Council Directive 82/501 of 24 June 1982 on the major accident hazards of certain industrial activities and likely to compromise public safety.

The mayor may, in return for payment of a fee set by a duly established tariff, grant permits for temporary parking or storage on the public highway and other public places, provided that such authorisation does not hinder traffic or the freedom of commerce. The methods of charging and the physical management of vehicle parking on the public highway are governed by article L. 2333-87.