Section 1: Overall operating grant

The rural solidarity grant is allocated to communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants and to certain district capitals with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants to take account, on the one hand, of the costs they incur in helping to maintain social life in rural areas and, on the other hand, of the insufficiency of their tax resources. This grant comprises three fractions. The annual variation in the rural solidarity grant is…

The first fraction of the rural solidarity grant is allocated to communes whose population represents at least 15% of the population of the canton, to communes with headquarters of centralising offices, and to communes that were canton chief towns on 1 January 2014; Not eligible are communes: 1° Located in an urban unit: a) Representing at least 10% of the department’s population or with more than 250,000 inhabitants; b) Containing…

The second fraction of the rural solidarity grant is allocated to communes whose per capita financial potential, as defined in article L. 2334-4, is less than twice the average per capita financial potential of communes belonging to the same demographic group. This fraction is distributed: 1° For 30% of its amount, according to the population weighted by the difference between the commune’s per capita financial potential and the average per…

The third fraction of the rural solidarity grant is allocated to the first ten thousand communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants or mentioned in I of article L. 2334-22-2, from among those eligible for at least one of the first two fractions of the rural solidarity grant, ranked in descending order of a synthetic index. This synthetic index is a function of: a) The ratio between the average per capita…

I.- By way of derogation, the new communes mentioned in article L. 2113-1 created after the promulgation of law no. 2010-1563 of 16 December 2010 on the reform of local authorities, which have 10,000 inhabitants or more and which meet the following cumulative conditions, may be eligible for the three fractions of the rural solidarity grant: 1° None of the former communes had a population of 10,000 or more in…

A decree in the Conseil d’Etat shall lay down the detailed rules for the application of this paragraph.