The following are exempt from business property tax:
1° Fishermen using one or two boats for their professional activity, even if they own them;
1° bis Small-scale fishing companies referred to in Article L. 931-2 of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code when one or more members are on board;
2° Maritime registrants who personally fish for fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other fishery products and sell these products themselves;
3° Maritime cooperative societies set up and operating in accordance with articles L. 931-5 to L. 931-27 of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code.
The exemption provided for above does not apply to sociétés coopératives maritimes whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market or offered to the public on a multilateral trading facility subject to the provisions of II of Article L. 433-3 of the Monetary and Financial Code or at least 20% of whose capital is held by non-cooperating members within the meaning of 1 quinquies of article 207 of this code and holders of cooperative investment certificates where the articles of association provide that they may be remunerated.