The State is responsible for the conduct of economic and social policy and the defence of employment. However, subject to respect for the freedom of trade and industry and the principle of equality of citizens before the law, the municipality may intervene in economic and social matters under the conditions set out in this chapter and in article L. 2253-1.
When the purpose of the local authority’s intervention is to promote economic development, it may grant aid under the conditions set out in Title I of Book V of Part One and in article L. 2253-1.
When private initiative is lacking or insufficient to ensure the creation or maintenance of a service required to meet the needs of the population in a rural area or in a municipality comprising one or more priority neighbourhoods for urban policy, the municipality may entrust responsibility for creating or managing it to an association governed by the loi du 1er juillet 1901 relative au contrat d’association or to any other…
Municipalities and their groupings may award operating grants to the local structures of representative trade union organisations under conditions laid down by decree in the Conseil d’Etat. The organisations thus subsidised are required to submit a report to the town council detailing the use of the subsidy.
The municipality may award subsidies to existing companies whose purpose is to operate cinemas under conditions laid down by decree in the Conseil d’Etat. These subsidies may only be awarded to establishments which, regardless of the number of screens, achieve a weekly average of less than 7,500 admissions or which are classified as arthouse under conditions set by decree. Subsidies may also be awarded to these same companies for the…
Locations, their groupings, the collectivity of Saint-Barthélemy and the collectivity of Saint-Martin may, under conditions set by decree in the Conseil d’Etat, award subsidies to existing establishments whose purpose is the retail sale of new books. To qualify for the grant provided for in the first paragraph, an establishment must, during the reference period referred to in Article 1467 A of the General Tax Code or, for the collectivity of…
A commune may only grant a loan guarantee or surety to a person governed by private law under the conditions set out in this chapter. The total amount of annual instalments, already guaranteed or guaranteed to fall due during the financial year, of loans contracted by any person governed by private or public law, plus the amount of the first full annual instalment of the new guaranteed assistance, and the…
I.-The provisions of the second, third and fourth paragraphs of article L. 2252-1 are not applicable to loan guarantees or sureties granted by a municipality : 1° For housing construction, acquisition or improvement operations carried out by low-income housing organisations or semi-public companies; 2° For housing construction, acquisition or improvement operations benefiting from a State subsidy or carried out with the benefit of loans assisted by the State or backed…
A commune may guarantee loans contracted to finance the construction, by religious associations or, in the départements of Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin and Moselle, by public religious establishments or by associations registered under local law for religious purposes, of buildings meeting collective needs of a religious nature. The municipality informs the State representative in the department of its intention to grant such a guarantee at least three months before it is granted.
Notwithstanding the transfer, whether voluntary or by operation of law, of all or part of its competencies in terms of housing policy or housing to a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation, the municipality retains the option of granting a loan guarantee or its surety for the construction, acquisition or improvement of social housing referred to in article L. 2252-2 and to provide subsidies or land grants for these operations.
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