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Buildings which, without justifying an application for immediate classification as historic monuments, are of sufficient art or history interest to make their preservation desirable, may be inscribed as historic monuments.
Buildings listed as historic monuments, because of their historical, artistic or architectural interest, are subject to special provisions for their conservation so that all maintenance interventions, of restoration or modification may be effected by maintaining the cultural interest which justified their protection.
Book VI of the Heritage Code specifies the conditions under which these interventions are carried out.
The owner is responsible for the conservation of the listed historic monument (L. 621-29-1). He is the project owner (L. 621-29-2).
Pursuant to Article L. 621-27 of the Heritage Code, the building inscribed as a historic monument may not be modified without notice to the regional prefect four months earlier (R. 621-60).
Where the proposed works are subject to a permit (to construct, demolish or develop) or to a prior declaration under the Urban Planning Code, the issue of the permit oropposition to the prior declaration may not take place without the consent of the regional prefect.
The authorized works are carried out under the scientific and technical control of the State services in charge of historical monuments which is carried out throughout the work until their completion (R. 621-65).
The project management of these works must be entrusted to an architect when they are subject to building permits under the urban planning code. No specific architect qualification requirements are required.
When a building presents a risk to the safety or health of persons, the competent authority (mayor or president of EPCI (public institution of communal cooperation) for safety or prefect for the health of persons) may order the necessary measures to remedy this situation (article L. 511-11 the Building and Housing Code and L. 511-19 of the same code for the emergency procedure).
Before ordering the repair or demolition of a building listed as an unhealthy historic monument or that has a lack of solidity, the competent authority shall seek the opinion of the architect of the buildings of France.
It shall inform him as part of the emergency procedure.
In case of total or partial demolition, architectural or decorative elements that are likely to be reused for the restoration or reconstruction of the building or that are of historical or artistic interest are deposited in conservation, taking into account the indications of the architect of the Buildings of France (article R. 511-4 of the construction and housing code).