The provisions of article L. 1522-1 concerning the majority shareholding of local authorities and their groupings are not applicable:
1° To semi-public companies set up under the Decree-Laws of 5 November and 28 December 1926 and created prior to 8 July 1983, the date of publication of the loi n° 83-597 du 7 juillet 1983 relative aux sociétés d’économie mixte locales, provided they do not change their corporate purpose;
2° Aux sociétés d’économie mixte sportives mentionnées à l’article L. 122-12 of the Sports Code in which the majority of the share capital and the majority of the votes in the deliberative bodies are held by the sports association alone or, jointly, by the sports association and the local authorities;
3° To semi-public companies for the equipment and operation of ski lifts set up prior to 8 July 1983, the date of publication of the aforementioned law no. 83-597 of 7 July 1983.
Stakeholdings by local authorities and their groupings in semi-public companies operating bus stations and falling within the scope of 1° above are subject to the following conditions:
1° Local authorities and their groupings separately hold no more than 40% of the capital;
2° Local authorities and their groupings jointly hold no more than 65% of the capital.