Assigned property, on the date of promulgation of Law no. 96-369 du 3 mai 1996 relative aux services d’incendie et de secours, par les communes, public establishments for inter-communal cooperation and the department for the operation of the fire and rescue services and necessary for the operation of the departmental fire and rescue service are made available to the latter, free of charge, from the date set by an agreement, subject to the provisions of article L. 1424-19.
This agreement, concluded between, on the one hand, the commune or the public establishment for inter-communal cooperation or the department and, on the other hand, the departmental fire and rescue service, regulates the terms and conditions of the provision, which must take place within five years of the promulgation of law no. 96-369 of 3 May 1996 relating to fire and rescue services.
Subject to the provisions of the fifth paragraph with regard to loans, the departmental fire and rescue service succeeds to the rights and obligations of the commune, the public establishment for inter-communal cooperation or the department. As such, it is substituted for them in contracts of any kind entered into for the development, operation, maintenance or conservation of the property placed at its disposal, as well as for the operation of the services. The authorities concerned shall notify their co-contractors of this substitution.
When the assets cease to be assigned to the operation of the fire and rescue services, their provision ceases.
The agreement referred to in the second paragraph sets out the conditions under which the repayment of loans contracted in respect of the assets made available is assumed.