Under conditions set by decree in the Conseil d’Etat, the rules relating to drinking water and sanitation charges and the sums provided for by Articles L. 1331-1 to L. 1331-10 of the Public Health Code are established by deliberation of the municipal council or the deliberative assembly of the grouping of local authorities.
When the municipalities assume responsibility for the work mentioned in the second sentence of the first paragraph of II and the first sentence of the sixth paragraph of III of Article L. 2224-8, they are reimbursed in full by the owners for the costs of all kinds incurred by this work, including management costs, less any subsidies obtained.
The prohibition set out in the first paragraph of Article L. 511-5 of the Monetary and Financial Code does not preclude municipalities from being able to stagger the repayments due from owners under the previous paragraph.
These sums are collected for the benefit of the sanitation department budget and recovered in the same way as the fees payable by the users of the sanitation department.