Section 4: Dotation d'équipement des territoires ruraux (rural amenities grant)

It is instituted a budgetary allocation, called the rural territories equipment allocation, for the benefit of public establishments of inter-communal cooperation with their own tax status and municipalities meeting the criteria indicated in article L. 2334-33.

The following are eligible for the dotation d’équipement des territoires ruraux: 1° From 2017, the following are eligible for the dotation d’équipement des territoires ruraux: a) Public establishments for inter-communal cooperation with their own tax status in metropolitan departments that do not form a contiguous and unenclosed area of more than 75,000 inhabitants around one or more central municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants and whose population density is greater…

The territorial constituencies of Wallis and Futuna, the communes and their groupings of the overseas collectivities and New Caledonia benefit from a share of the equipment grant for rural territories, the amount of which is calculated by applying to the total amount of this grant the ratio, increased by 33%, existing between the population of each of the collectivities and groupings concerned and the national population, as it results from…

After constitution of the quota for the benefit of the territorial constituencies of Wallis and Futuna, the communes as well as the groupings of communes of the overseas collectivities and New Caledonia mentioned in Article L. 2334-34, the appropriations for the dotation d’équipement des territoires ruraux are divided between the départements: 1° For 50% of the total amount of the dotation: a) 50% on the basis of the combined population…

The credits from the allocation referred to in Article L. 2334-32 are allocated by the State representative in the department to the beneficiaries mentioned in article L. 2334-33, in the form of grants to carry out investments, as well as projects in the economic, social, environmental, sporting and tourist fields or promoting the development or maintenance of public services in rural areas. The grant must not have the effect of…

In each department, a commission is set up under the State representative, made up of: 1° Representatives of the mayors of communes with a population not exceeding 20,000 in metropolitan departments and 35,000 in overseas departments; 2° Representatives of the presidents of public establishments for inter-communal cooperation with their own tax status whose population does not exceed 60,000 in the departments of mainland France and 150,000 in the overseas departments…

Investments for which communes and their own tax groupings are likely to receive State subsidies, the list of which is set by regulation, may not be subsidised under the dotation d’équipement des territoires ruraux.

A decree in the Council of State shall lay down the detailed rules for the application of this section.