Section 2: Water and sanitation

I. – The subscriber file mentioned in Article L. 2224-11-4 implemented for the invoicing of water and sanitation by the delegatee of a public water or sanitation service includes the elements necessary for the preparation of invoices, receipts and accounting documents required for the production of receipts and the recovery of sums due as well as the collection and recovery of taxes and duties attached and the management of the…

Any public sewerage service, regardless of how it is operated, gives rise to the collection of sewerage fees established under the conditions set by the articles R. 2224-19-1 to R. 2224-19-11.

The municipal council or the deliberative body of the public establishment responsible for all or part of the public collective or non-collective sanitation service institutes a sanitation fee for the part of the service it provides and sets the rate. When the sanitation service covers both collective and non-collective sanitation, two separate charges are introduced. The budget attached to the sanitation service or the joint water and sanitation budget established…

The collective wastewater treatment charge comprises a variable part and, where applicable, a fixed part. The variable part is determined on the basis of the volume of water taken by the user from the public distribution network or from any other source, the use of which generates the discharge of wastewater collected by the wastewater service. This volume is calculated under the conditions defined in articles R. 2224-19-3 and R….

When water consumption is calculated on a flat-rate basis, pursuant to the third paragraph of I of article L. 2224-12-4, sanitation fees may also be calculated on a flat-rate basis.

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.