In retail establishments where the weekly rest period normally takes place on Sundays, this rest period may be cancelled on the Sundays designated for each retail establishment by decision of the mayor taken after consulting the municipal council. The number of such Sundays may not exceed twelve per calendar year. The list of Sundays is drawn up before 31 December for the following year. It may be amended in the same way during the year, at least two months before the first Sunday concerned by the amendment.
Where the number of Sundays exceeds five, the mayor’s decision is taken after obtaining the assent of the deliberative body of the local authority of which the municipality is a member. If no decision is taken within two months of the matter being referred to it, this opinion is deemed to be favourable.
For food retailers whose sales area exceeds the threshold mentioned in the first paragraph of article 3 of law no. 72-657 of 13 July 1972 instituting measures in favour of certain categories of elderly shopkeepers and craftsmen, when the public holidays mentioned in article L. 3133-1, with the exception of 3°, are worked, they are deducted by the establishment from the Sundays designated by the mayor under this article, up to a limit of three.