Section 8: Payment to finance mobility services

The rate of payment is set or modified by deliberation of the municipal council or the competent body of the public establishment which is the organising authority for mobility within the meaning of Article L. 1231-1 of the Transport Code within the limit of:

- 0.55% of the salaries defined in article L. 2333-65 of this code when the population of the municipality or public establishment is between 10,000 and 100,000 inhabitants;

- 0.85% of the salaries defined in article L. 2333-65 when the population of the municipality or public establishment is between 50,000 and 100,000 inhabitants and the mobility organising authority has decided to build an exclusive right-of-way public transport infrastructure. If the corresponding work has not begun within a maximum of five years from the date of the increase in the rate of the payment intended to finance mobility, the rate applicable from the sixth year is reduced to 0.55% at most;

- 1% of the salaries defined in article L. 2333-65 when the population of the municipality or public establishment is greater than 100,000;

- 1.75% of the salaries defined in Article L. 2333-65 when the population of the municipality or public cooperation establishment is greater than 100,000 and the mobility organising authority has decided to build a public transport infrastructure in road or guided mode. If the corresponding work has not been started within a maximum of five years from the date of the increase in the rate of the mobility levy, the rate applicable from the sixth year onwards is reduced to a maximum of 1%. However, this period runs from 1 January 2004 for local authorities whose decisions setting a rate higher than 1% were taken prior to this date.

However, communities of communes and agglomeration communities have the option of increasing the maximum rates mentioned in the previous paragraphs by 0.05%.

This option is also open:

- to urban communities;

- to metropolises;

- to mobility organising authorities to which a community of communes, agglomeration community or urban community has joined; and

- to the mobility organising authority for the Lyon territories.

In territories comprising one or more communes classified as tourist communes within the meaning of Article L. 133-11 of the Tourism Code, the applicable rate may be increased by 0.2%.

In municipalities and public establishments competent for the organisation of mobility whose population is less than 10,000 and whose territory includes one or more municipalities classified as tourist municipalities within the meaning of Article L. 133-11 of the Tourism Code, the rate of the payment is set within the limit of 0.55% of the salaries defined in Article L. 2333-65 of this code.

In the event of the extension of the perimeter of a public inter-municipal cooperation establishment with its own tax authority or of a mixed syndicate to which a public inter-municipal cooperation establishment with its own tax authority has belonged, the rate of the payment intended to finance mobility services applicable to the territory of the municipalities included may be reduced or raised to zero by decision of the deliberative body of the public establishment or mixed syndicate, for a maximum period of twelve years from the date of inclusion, in relation to the rate applicable to the territory of the other municipalities, where the mobility payment was not introduced in the territory of newly included municipalities or was introduced at a lower rate. The rate adopted for these municipalities and public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation may not be lower than the rate that applied to them the year prior to the change in scope. These provisions apply in the event of the merger of public establishments of inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax status.

The provisions of the previous paragraph apply to the communes included in the territorial jurisdiction of a mobility organising authority resulting either from the creation of a public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax status competent in mobility matters, or from the merger of public establishments of inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax status, or from the transfer of competence in mobility organisation matters to a public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax status of which they are members. They also apply to the mobility organising authority for the Lyon territories, both when it is created and when a new member joins.

Any change in rates comes into force on 1st January or 1st July each year; the decision setting the new rate is sent by the mobility organising authority to the collection bodies before, respectively, 1st November or 1st May each year. The collection bodies communicate the new rate to taxpayers no later than one month after these latter dates.