Youths attacked the mayor's residence in Montfermeil, east of Paris, shaking the gates and hurling stones at its glass facade, before facing off with police, who responded with rubber bullets.
Seven police officers were slightly injured in the violence, which involved some 250 officers and lasted more than four hours.
Several Molotov cocktails were hurled at the town hall but failed to ignite.
The centre-right mayor, Xavier Lemoine, had been targeted by local youths before over tough anti-riot measures taken following last year's unrest, banning gatherings of more than three youths in the town centre.
"Tonight's violence showed that the lives of my family and my seven children are in danger," said Mr Lemoine, who was given police protection in late April after his residence was stoned a first time.
According to the mayor's office, however, the trouble was sparked by the arrest of a youth accused of assaulting a bus driver and was unconnected to the mayor's anti-riot measures.
Violence also broke out in the neighbouring town of Clichy-sous-Bois, where last autumn's riots first erupted following the deaths by electrocution of two teenagers who were believed to have been fleeing police.
Rioting broke out last October in hundreds of run-down, high-immigration suburban areas outside Paris and many other French cities, spreading to 300 towns at the height of three weeks of unrest.
Some 10,000 cars and 200 public buildings were torched, leading to more than 5,000 arrests and 400 jail convictions.