Section 4: Miscellaneous provisions

The local authorities and their groupings to which canals or waterways contiguous to the network of waterways entrusted by the State to the public establishment Voies navigables de France belong inform the latter of the periods and times when their network is open to navigation.

The competent State authority obtains the opinion of the local authority that owns the domain before issuing authorisations and declaration receipts under the various policies falling within its remit. The watercourses, canals, lakes and bodies of water in the territorial public river domain that are open to navigation must be the subject of special navigation police regulations issued by the State representative, on the proposal of the local authority in…

In the case of a declassification of the public river domain of a territorial authority or group of territorial authorities, the public enquiry procedure provided for in the second paragraph of article L. 2142-1 du code général de la propriété des personnes publiques is conducted by the local authority under the conditions set out in Chapter IV of Title III of Book I of the Code des relations entre le…

The needs of the State mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 1311-19 are those of justice, national defence, the national police, the national gendarmerie and civil security.