Any association that has been duly registered for at least five years on the date of the incident and whose articles of association aim to defend the moral and material interests of tenants, owners and lessors of multi-family residential buildings may exercise the rights granted to civil parties in cases of intentional personal injury or destruction, damage and deterioration punishable by the articles 222-1 to 222-18 and 322-1 to 322-13 of the Penal Code when public action has been initiated by the public prosecutor or the injured party and the offence has been committed in a building that is part of its associative purpose.
However, the association will only be admissible in its action if it can prove that it has received the agreement of the victim or, if the victim is a minor or a protected adult, that of his or her legal representative.
Any foundation recognised as being in the public interest may exercise the rights recognised as a civil party under the same conditions and subject to the same reservations as the association mentioned in this article.