CHAPTER III: Police powers relating to specific objects

The mayor must order the necessary measures to ensure the sanitation of communal ponds located in the interior of villages or in the vicinity of dwellings, whenever these ponds compromise public health. Failing the mayor, the representative of the State in the department may, on the advice of the hygiene council and after a commodo et incommodo investigation carried out under the conditions provided for by the environment code, prescribe…

The mayor shall order the owners of ponds or ditches with stagnant water established in the vicinity of dwellings to carry out the work or take the necessary measures to put an end to all causes of insalubrity. In the event of refusal or negligence, the mayor shall report the state of insalubrity found to the representative of the State in the department. The representative of the State in the…

The mayor is responsible for external fire defence.

The mayor, or the Paris police prefect in his area of jurisdiction, may issue parking permits on the public highway to taxi operators, under the conditions provided for in article L. 3121-5 of the transport code.

Decisions by the town council or orders by the mayor to transfer or close down sites traditionally open to circuses or funfairs are taken after consultation with the professionals concerned, in accordance with the procedures laid down by the town. .