French General Code of Local Authorities
In forceSubject to a non-existent, insufficient or inadequate offer on their territory, municipalities may create and maintain charging infrastructures necessary for the use of electric or rechargeable hybrid vehicles or dockside vessels, as well as gas or hydrogen refuelling points for vehicles or vessels, or set up a service including the creation, maintenance and operation of such infrastructures or refuelling points. Operation may include the purchase of electricity, gas or hydrogen needed to power vehicles or ships.
They may transfer this competence to public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation exercising competences in the areas of planning, support for actions to control energy demand or reduce polluting emissions or greenhouse gases, to the organising authorities of a public electricity distribution network referred to in article L. 2224-31, the mobility organising authorities mentioned in Title III of Book II of Part One of the Transport Code and, in Ile-de-France, Ile-de-France Mobilités.
Without prejudice to consultations provided for by other legislation, the organising authority of the public electricity or gas distribution network and the manager of the public electricity or gas distribution network issue an opinion on the project to create charging infrastructures or gas refuelling points submitted for deliberation by the deliberating body pursuant to this article.
On communal roads, when parking spaces are marked out on the public domain and equipped with charging devices for electric vehicles, a minimum percentage of all these spaces, rounded up to the nearest unit, is accessible to people with reduced mobility, without the space or spaces being reserved for them. The pre-equipment of parking spaces for recharging electric vehicles takes account of this obligation. The percentage of accessible spaces is defined by ministerial decree.
When the competence mentioned in the first paragraph has been transferred to public establishments for inter-communal cooperation exercising competences in the areas of development, support for actions to control energy demand or reduce polluting emissions or greenhouse gases or to the organising authorities of a public electricity distribution network mentioned in article L. 2224-31 or to the mobility organising authorities mentioned in Article L. 1231-1 of the Transport Code or, in Ile-de-France, to the authority mentioned in Article L. 1241-1 of the same code, its holder may draw up a master plan for the development of charging infrastructures open to the public for electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles within the framework provided for in Article L. 353-5 of the Energy Code.
