French General Code of Local Authorities
In forceFor reasons of solidarity and regional planning, the department makes technical assistance available under conditions determined by agreement to municipalities or public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation that do not have sufficient resources to exercise their competencies in the areas of sanitation, protection of water resources, restoration and maintenance of aquatic environments, flood prevention, roads, mobility, planning and housing.
The department may delegate these technical assistance missions to a mixed syndicate formed in application of article L. 5721-2 of which it is a member.
In the overseas departments, this provision is exercised, in the fields of sanitation, protection of water resources, restoration and maintenance of aquatic environments and flood prevention, by the water offices provided for in article L. 213-13 of the Environment Code.
In Corsica, the technical assistance missions provided for in the first paragraph of this article may be carried out by the territorial collectivity of Corsica or by one of its public establishments.
A decree in the Council of State specifies the procedures for applying this article, in particular the criteria for determining the municipalities and establishments referred to in the first paragraph and the conditions for remunerating this provision. The aforementioned criteria take into account the specific constraints of the municipalities and establishments referred to in the same first paragraph located in mountain areas.
