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Article L2224-2 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Municipalities are prohibited from assuming responsibility in their own budgets for expenditure on the public services referred to in article L. 2224-1. However, the municipal council may decide on such assumption of responsibility when it is justified by one of the following reasons: 1° When the requirements of the public service lead the local authority to impose particular operating constraints; 2° When the operation of the public service requires the…

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Article L2224-3 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The deliberations and clauses of treaties or specifications which, prior to the date of entry into force of the loi n° 88-13 du 5 janvier 1988 d’amélioration de la décentralisation, have provided for the assumption of responsibility by the communes for expenditure meeting the conditions of article L. 2224-2. Clauses in treaties or specifications approved before the date on which the loi n° 82-213 du 2 mars 1982 relative aux…

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Article L2224-4 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Deliberations or decisions of municipal councils or competent local authorities involving increases in the expenditure of public industrial or commercial services operated by a public authority, leased or granted a concession, may not be implemented when they are not accompanied by the vote of corresponding revenue.

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Article L2224-5 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The mayor presents to the municipal council or the president of the public establishment for inter-communal cooperation presents to its deliberative assembly an annual report on the price and quality of the public drinking water service intended in particular to inform users. This report is presented no later than nine months after the close of the financial year concerned. The mayor attaches to it the note drawn up each year…

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Article L2224-6 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Communes with fewer than 3,000 inhabitants and public establishments for inter-communal cooperation, no member commune of which has more than 3,000 inhabitants, may draw up a single budget for drinking water and wastewater services if the two services are subject to the same rules for liability to value added tax and if they are managed in the same way. The budget and the invoices issued must show the breakdown between…

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Article L2224-7 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

I.-Any service providing all or part of the production, transport, storage and distribution of water intended for human consumption is a drinking water service. The production of water intended for human consumption includes all or part of the abstraction, protection of the point of abstraction as well as the treatment of the raw water. II.-.Any service providing all or part of the tasks defined in article L. 2224-8 is a…

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Article L2224-7-2 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

In order to implement the responsibilities set out in article L. 1321-1 B of the Public Health Code aimed at meeting people’s essential needs for water intended for human consumption, the municipalities or their public cooperation establishments identify the people in their territory who have no access, or insufficient access, to drinking water and the reasons for this situation. This territorial diagnosis covers the entire population present in their territory….

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Article L2224-7-3 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

In the light of the territorial diagnosis drawn up in application of article L. 2224-7-2, the municipalities or their public cooperation establishments proceed to: 1° Identifying and assessing the possibilities for improving access to water intended for human consumption for people and groups of people who do not have access or who have inadequate access; 2° The implementation, no later than three years after the territorial diagnosis has been carried…

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