Chapter I: Hygiene of buildings and built-up areas.

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…

Sanitation department employees have access to private property: 1° For the application of articles L. 1331-4 and L. 1331-6 ; 2° To carry out the inspection of non-collective sanitation installations as provided for in III ofarticle L. 2224-8 of the General Code of Local Authorities; 3° To carry out maintenance, rehabilitation and construction work on non-collective sanitation facilities in application of the same III; 4° To monitor the discharge of…

For the sale of all or part of a residential property not connected to the public wastewater collection network, the document drawn up following the inspection of non-collective sanitation facilities carried out under the conditions provided for in II of article L. 1331-1-1 of this code and dated less than three years before the signing of the deed of sale is attached to the technical diagnostic file provided for in…

The provisions of articles L. 1331-1 to L. 1331-11 are applicable to local authorities and their public establishments subject to special legislation having the same purpose. However, the competent assembly in each case may have decided, by deliberation before 31 December 1958, that these provisions do not apply to the local authority concerned. This decision may be revoked at any time.

In the communes mentioned in In accordance with article L. 321-2 of the Environment Code, future urbanisation zones may only be urbanised subject to the existence or commencement of facilities for the treatment and disposal of effluent from future constructions, installations and developments, in accordance with Chapter I of Title I of Book II of the Environment Code. Failing this, they may only be developed if the zone regulations stipulate…

Existing buildings and installations intended for a use other than housing and which are not subject to authorisation or declaration under articles L. 214-1 to L. 214-4, L. 512-1 and L. 512-8 of the French Environment Code must be equipped with a system for treating effluents other than domestic ones, appropriate to the size and nature of the activity and ensuring satisfactory protection of the natural environment.

When, for three consecutive years, the number of deaths in a municipality has exceeded the average mortality figure for France, the Director General of the Regional Health Agency will carry out a survey of the sanitary conditions in the municipality and communicate the results to the State representative in the département. If this survey establishes that the sanitary state of the municipality requires sanitation work, in particular that it does…

Any premises, facility, immovable property or group of premises, facilities or immovable property, whether vacant or not, that constitutes, either by itself or due to the conditions in which it is occupied, operated or used, a danger or risk to the health or physical safety of people is unfit for habitation. The presence of degraded coatings containing lead in concentrations exceeding the thresholds and conditions mentioned in article L. 1334-2…

Unsanitary premises, the definition of which is specified in accordance with the provisions of article L. 1331-22, i.e. cellars, basements, attics, rooms with inadequate ceiling height, living rooms with no access to the outside or with insufficient natural light or of cramped layout, and other premises that are by nature unfit for habitation, or premises used in conditions that clearly lead to their over-occupation.