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Article L2225-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The purpose of external fire defence is to ensure, according to the needs resulting from the risks to be taken into account, the supply of water to the fire and emergency services via water points identified for this purpose. It is placed under the authority of the mayor in accordance with article L. 2213-32.

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Article L2225-2 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

-The municipalities are responsible for the public outdoor fire fighting service and are therefore responsible for creating, developing and managing the water points required to supply water to the fire and rescue services. They may also intervene upstream of these water points to guarantee their supply.

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Article L2226-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Urban rainwater management corresponding to the collection, transport, storage and treatment of rainwater in urban areas constitutes an administrative public service under the responsibility of the municipalities, known as the urban rainwater management public service. The urban rainwater management service monitors the connection of buildings to the public urban rainwater collection network and compliance with the requirements set in application of the last paragraph of article L. 1331-1 of the…

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Article L2231-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The mayor of a municipality or the president of a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with a local urban development plan, an urban development document in its place or a communal map presents a report to the municipal council or the deliberative assembly, at least once every three years, on the artificialisation of land within its territory over the previous calendar years. The report gives an account of the extent…

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Article L2241-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The municipal council deliberates on the management of property and real estate transactions carried out by the municipality, subject, in the case of property belonging to a section of a municipality, to the provisions of articles L. 2411-1 to L. 2411-19. The balance sheet of acquisitions and disposals carried out on the territory of a municipality with more than 2,000 inhabitants by the municipality itself, or by a public or…

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Article L2241-3 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

When the communes and their public establishments make amicable property acquisitions in accordance with the rules of civil law, or when the acquisition takes place by auction, the notary drafting the deed shall, if necessary, proceed, under his responsibility, to purge all liens and mortgages. The funds remitted to him are then considered to have been received by reason of his functions.

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Article L2241-4 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The communes are, on the proposal of the sellers, authorised to acquire, in return for the payment of a life annuity, the properties they need for property restoration, development or equipment operations. Where a property sold in this way is occupied in whole or in part by the vendor, the life annuity contract must include, for his benefit and that of his spouse living with him on the date of…

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