Section 4: Other policies

The mayor is responsible for policing bathing and water sports activities carried out from the shore using beach and unregistered equipment. This policing is exercised at sea up to a limit set at 300 metres from the water’s edge. The mayor regulates the use of facilities built for the practice of these activities. The mayor shall provide for all emergency assistance and rescue measures. The mayor shall designate one or…

The mayor prescribes the repair or demolition of walls, buildings, edifices or funerary monuments threatening ruin under the conditions provided for in Chapter I of Title I of Book V of the Construction and Housing Code.

If the owner or his assigns fail to maintain an undeveloped plot of land or part of an undeveloped plot of land located within a residential area or at a maximum distance of 50 metres from dwellings, outbuildings, building sites, workshops or factories belonging to him, the mayor may, for environmental reasons, notify him by order of the obligation to carry out, at his expense, the work to restore the…

The mayor prescribes that the sweeping of ovens, furnaces and chimneys in houses, factories, etc., The mayor orders, if necessary, the repair or, if necessary, the demolition of ovens, furnaces and chimneys whose state of disrepair would give rise to fear of fire or other accidents. The rules prescribed by Chapter I of Title I of Book V of the Construction and Housing Code are applicable in the event of…

The mayor may require owners, usufructuaries, farmers or any other owners or operators to enclose wells and excavations presenting a danger to public safety with an adequate fence.

In all communes where the operation is necessary, house numbering is carried out by order of the mayor. Maintenance of the numbering is the responsibility of the owner, who must comply with ministerial instructions.

The mayor supervises, from a health point of view, the state of streams, rivers, ponds or pools of water. .

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.