The following may be members of a local savings company: public inter-municipal cooperation bodies with their own tax status and, under the conditions set out in the Articles of Association, natural persons or legal entities that have entered into one of the transactions provided for in Articles L. 311-1, L. 311-2, L. 511-2 and L. 511-3, the employees of this savings and provident institution, the local authorities and, under the conditions defined by article 3 bis of law n° 47-1775 of 10 September 1947 on the status of cooperation, the other natural persons or legal entities mentioned in this article. Local authorities and public inter-municipal cooperation bodies may not, however, together hold more than 20% of the capital of each local savings company.
Any member of a local savings company wishing to liquidate all or part of his shares under the provisions of Article 18 of the aforementioned Act 47-1775 of 10 September 1947 may only sell them at their nominal value to the local savings company to which he belongs.
Each local savings company may only resell shares sold to it by members at their nominal value.