The State is responsible for the conduct of economic and social policy and the defence of employment. Nonetheless, subject to respect for the freedom of commerce and industry and the principle of equality of citizens before the law, the département may intervene in economic and social matters under the conditions set out in this chapter and in Article L. 3232-4.
The départements may award operating subsidies 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 departmental council detailing the use of the subsidy.
A département may only grant a loan guarantee or its surety to a private-law person mentioned in the penultimate paragraph of this article or in 1° of I of article L. 3231-4-1 or carrying out an operation mentioned in I and II of the same article L. 3231-4-1 under the conditions set out in this article. The total amount of annual instalments, already guaranteed or guaranteed to fall due during…
I. – The provisions of the second, third and fourth paragraphs of article L. 3231-4 do not apply to loan guarantees or sureties granted by a département: 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 aided by the State or…
The départements may guarantee loans taken out 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 department informs the representative of the State in the department of its intention to grant such a guarantee at least three months before…
All shareholdings in the capital of a commercial company or any other profit-making body whose purpose is not to operate departmental services or activities of general interest under conditions similar to those provided for, in the case of communes, by article L. 2253-2. By way of derogation from this article, a département may, by deliberation of its deliberative body, hold shares in a société anonyme or a société par actions…
Where, in a public limited company, a département is a member or chairman of the board of directors, a member of the management board or a member or chairman of the supervisory board, the civil liability arising from the exercise of the mandate of the département’s representatives is incumbent on the département and not on those representatives.
The département draws up a rural equipment assistance programme in the light, in particular, of proposals sent to it by the communes. Under no circumstances may this programme have the effect of allowing the départements to award a loan, grant or aid under conditions prohibited by the provisions of article L. 1111-5. When drawing up its aid programme, the département takes into account the priorities defined by the communes, or…
For reasons of solidarity and regional planning, the department makes technical assistance available under conditions determined by agreement to municipalities or public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation that do not have sufficient resources to exercise their competencies in the areas of sanitation, protection of water resources, restoration and maintenance of aquatic environments, flood prevention, roads, mobility, planning and housing. The department may delegate these technical assistance missions to a mixed syndicate…
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