French General Code of Local Authorities
In forceI.- By way of derogation, the new communes mentioned in article L. 2113-1 created after the promulgation of law no. 2010-1563 of 16 December 2010 on the reform of local authorities, which have 10,000 inhabitants or more and which meet the following cumulative conditions, may be eligible for the three fractions of the rural solidarity grant:
1° None of the former communes had a population of 10,000 or more in the year prior to the merger;
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2° They are characterised as sparsely populated or very sparsely populated, as defined by the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and according to the data available on the website of this institute on 1st January of the year of distribution. If this data is not available for a new commune, the latter is considered to be sparsely populated or very sparsely populated if all the former communes are, under the same conditions, considered to be sparsely populated or very sparsely populated.
II. II.-The communes mentioned in I of this article may be eligible for the three fractions of the rural solidarity grant and benefit from them under the conditions laid down in articles L. 2334-20 to L. 2334-22-1, subject to the following provisions:
1° 2° of article L. 2334-21 does not apply to them if, under the conditions set out in the seventeenth paragraph of the same article, they are considered to be the administrative centre of a canton;
2° For the application of articles L. 2334-22 and L. 2334-22-1, the financial potential per inhabitant and the income per inhabitant of these municipalities are compared with the values for municipalities with 7,500 to 9,999 inhabitants;
3° For the application of 1° of article L. 2334-22 and article R. 2334-9, the population of the new commune is taken into account up to a limit of 10,000 inhabitants.
III. III.-The new communes mentioned in I of this article are not eligible for the urban solidarity and social cohesion grant.
