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Article L2334-14 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The dotation nationale de péréquation and the dotation de solidarité rurale are paid annually before the end of the third quarter of the financial year in respect of which they are paid. The dotation de solidarité urbaine et de cohésion sociale and the share of the dotation d’aménagement earmarked for overseas municipalities are paid monthly. The dotation de solidarité urbaine et de cohésion sociale and the share of the dotation…

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Article L2334-14-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

I. – The national equalisation grant comprises a main share and a top-up. II. – This allocation is distributed among the municipalities under the conditions specified in III, IV, V and VI, after deduction of the sums required for the share intended for the municipalities of the overseas departments, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, the territorial collectivity of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, the territorial constituencies of Wallis and Futuna and the departmental collectivity of…

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Article L2334-16 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Benefit from the allocation provided for in article L. 2334-15 : 1° The first two-thirds of municipalities with 10,000 inhabitants or more, classified, each year, according to a synthetic index of resources and charges defined in article L. 2334-17; 2° The first tenth of municipalities with a population of between 5,000 and 9,999 inhabitants, classified each year according to a synthetic index of resources and charges defined in Article L….

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Article L2334-17 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The synthetic index of resources and charges mentioned in article L. 2334-16 for municipalities with 10,000 inhabitants or more is made up of: 1° The ratio between the per capita financial potential of municipalities with 10,000 inhabitants or more and the per capita financial potential of the municipality, as defined in article L. 2334-4 ; 2° The ratio between the proportion of social housing in the total number of dwellings…

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Article L2334-18 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The provisions of article L. 2334-17 apply for the calculation of the synthetic index of resources and charges for municipalities with 5,000 to 9,999 inhabitants, subject to the substitution of the national averages recorded for these municipalities for those recorded for municipalities with 10,000 inhabitants or more. The municipalities are ranked according to the decreasing value of their synthetic index.

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Article L2334-18-2 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The allocation for each eligible municipality is equal to its population multiplied by the value of the index allocated to it. This product is weighted by the tax effort up to a limit of 1.3 and by a coefficient varying uniformly from 4 to 0.5 in ascending order of the ranking of eligible communes. To determine the allocation due to eligible municipalities, two additional multiplying coefficients are applied to the…

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Article L2334-18-3 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

When a commune ceases to be eligible for the allocation, it receives, as a non-renewable guarantee, an allocation equal to half of that which it received the previous year. When a commune ceases to be eligible for the endowment as a result of its population falling below the minimum threshold set in 2° of article L. 2334-16, it receives, as a guarantee for the following nine financial years, an allocation…

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Article L2334-18-4 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The increase in the allocation, after distribution of the allocations calculated in application of articles L. 2334-16 to L. 2334-18-3, is divided between the two demographic categories in proportion to their population in the total of beneficiary municipalities. The increase is divided between the beneficiary municipalities under the conditions set out in the first two paragraphs of article L. 2334-18-2. Communes that were not eligible for the allocation in the…

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Article L2334-20 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

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…

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