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Article L2252-4 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

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.

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Article L2252-5 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

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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Article L2253-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

All holdings by a municipality in the capital of a commercial company or any other profit-making body whose purpose is not to operate municipal services or activities of general interest under the conditions laid down in Article L. 2253-2. By way of derogation from the first paragraph of this article, communes and their groupings may, by deliberation of their deliberative bodies, participate in the capital of a société coopérative d’intérêt…

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Article L2253-2 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Municipalities and their groupings may, by deliberation of their deliberative bodies, acquire or receive shares in local semi-public companies meeting the conditions set by articles L. 1521-1 and L. 1522-1. They may, under the same conditions, hold bonds of companies responsible for operating communal public services of an industrial and commercial nature.

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Article L2253-5 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Where, in a public limited company, a municipality 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 representatives of the municipality is incumbent on the municipality and not on those representatives.

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Article L2253-7 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

As an exception to the provisions of article L. 2253-1, a municipality, alone or with other local authorities, may participate in the capital of a credit institution or a finance company in the form of a public limited company governed by the provisions of Book II of the Commercial Code and whose sole purpose is to guarantee financial assistance granted to legal entities governed by private law, and in particular…

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Article L2254-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The municipalities and public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation must, through their intervention in land matters, through the development actions or operations they carry out or authorise pursuant to article L. 300-1 of the French Town Planning Code or through land subsidies, to enable the creation of the social rental housing needed to ensure the social mix of towns and neighbourhoods.

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