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What is public poperty law?
(Droit administratif des biens)
Public property law regulates the acquisition, the use and the divestiture of properties and goods belonging to public entities.
This area of law can be broken down into three major topics:
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The public or private Domain (la Domanialité):
The concept of « Domain » includes the properties and goods belonging to public entities.
Those properties or goods can be in a natural state (for example: maritime public domain (Domaine public maritime)), can consist of buildings, or can even be non-physical (for example: airwaves public domain (Domaine public hertzien)).
They are incorporated into an administration's public or private domain, which obeys to different corpuses of legislation.
Public or private domain can be used by individuals by requesting an authorization or permit to do so (Temporary occupation permit (Autorisation d'Occupation Temporaire (AOT)), parking permit (permis de stationnement)...).
Expropriation is a process in which a public entity will forcefully take over a property, for the benefit of the general public.
Numerous rules regulates this procedure, which is divided into an administrative phase and then a judicial phase, and the end of which the owner will be expropriated and compensated.
Expropriation differs from preemption (préemption), which is a procedure that gives the priority to a public authority above anyone else in the acquisition of a property sold by its owner.
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Public Works (Travaux publics):
Public Works allows an administrative authority to build a public construction that pursues general utility.
Public works are regulated by a specific set or rules and obeys to a special liability regime for public work damage.
