CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

Any person required to connect to the sewerage system and who obtains all or part of their water supply from a source that is not part of a public service must declare this to the town hall. In the event that the use of this water generates the discharge of wastewater collected by the sanitation service, the collective sanitation fee is calculated: – either by direct measurement using metering devices…

The non-collective sanitation fee includes a share intended to cover the costs of checking the design, siting and proper execution and operation of the installations and, where applicable, a share intended to cover the costs of maintaining them. The share representing inspection operations is calculated according to criteria defined by the authority mentioned in the first paragraph of article R. 2224-19-1 and taking into account the location, nature and size…

Independent of the contribution to the initial establishment, maintenance and operating expenses provided for in article L. 1331-10 of the code de la santé publique, any discharge of wastewater other than domestic into the public sewerage system gives rise to the payment, by the discharger, of a sewerage fee based: – either on a specific assessment determined on the basis of criteria defined by the authority mentioned in the first…

The collection, excluding contentious procedures, of charges for water consumption and charges for collective and non-collective sanitation may be entrusted to the same body, which will show the details on the same invoice. In the event of separate collection of these charges, the operator of the public water distribution network is obliged to communicate to the sanitation services, within one month of its own invoicing, the information required to calculate…

The sums owed by users are invoiced in the name of the holder of the water subscription, failing that in the name of the owner of the business, failing that in the name of the owner of the building. However, the part of the non-collective sanitation fee that relates to the inspection of the design, siting and proper execution of the installations is invoiced to the owner of the building.

Failure to pay within three months of presentation of the receipt and within fifteen days of formal notice by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, the fee will be increased by 25%.

The revenue from wastewater treatment charges is used to finance the expenses of the wastewater treatment service. These expenses include in particular: – operating expenses of the service, including personnel expenses; – maintenance expenses; – interest expenses on debt contracted for the establishment and maintenance of facilities; – depreciation expenses on fixed assets.

The proceeds of sums payable under the third paragraph of Article L. 1331-1 and the articles L. 1331-2, L. 1331-3, L. 1331-6, L. 1331-7, L. 1331-8 and L. 1331-10 of the French Public Health Code is added to the revenue from charges and other revenues from the wastewater service, in particular those corresponding to aid and treatment premiums paid by water agencies, to be allocated to financing the costs of…

I. – Authorisation to implement a water pricing system that does not include a term directly proportional to the total volume consumed may only be granted if the total population of the commune, the public establishment for inter-communal cooperation or the mixed syndicate is less than one thousand inhabitants and if the water resource is naturally abundant in the sub-basin or in the groundwater used by the drinking water service….

I. – The provisions of IIIa of Article L. 2224-12-4 apply to increases in the volume of water consumed due to a leak in a drinking water pipe after the meter, excluding leaks due to household appliances and sanitary or heating equipment. II. – When the drinking water utility notices an abnormal increase in consumption on the basis of the meter reading recording the customer’s actual water consumption, it informs…