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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Funeral and burial regulations

Article L2213-10

Burial sites other than cemeteries are also subject to the authority, police and supervision of mayors.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Guarantees granted in the exercise of a professional activity

Article L2123-10

Civil servants governed by Titles I to IV of the general civil service regulations are placed, at their request, in a secondment position to carry out one of the mandates mentioned in article L. 2123-…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to sanitation

Article L2224-10

The municipalities or their public cooperation establishments delimit, after a public enquiry carried out in accordance with Chapter III of Title II of Book I of the Environment Code: 1° Collective sa…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V : Powers of the State representative in the département

Article L2215-10

Without prejudice to

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L2223-10

No burials may take place in churches, temples, synagogues, hospitals, public chapels, and generally in any enclosed and closed buildings where citizens gather for the celebration of their faiths, nor…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Regies with legal personality and financial autonomy

Article L2221-10

Regies with legal personality and financial autonomy, known as local public establishments, are created, and their administrative and financial organisation determined, by deliberation of the municipa…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Rights and obligations of undivided co-owners.

Article 815-10

Receivables and indemnities which replace undivided property, as well as property acquired, with the consent of all the undivided co-owners, in use or replacement of undivided property, are by operati…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Rendering of accounts and termination of guardianship.

Article 810-10

The net proceeds from the realisation of the remaining assets are consigned. The heirs, if any are presented within the period for claiming the estate, shall be entitled to exercise their right to suc…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Gift-shares made to descendants of different degrees.

Article 1078-9

In the succession of a child who has consented to his or her own descendants being allotted in his or her place, the property received by them from the ascendant is treated as if they held it from the…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IX: Arrangements between spouses, either by marriage contract or during marriage.

Article 1099-1

When one spouse acquires property with money given to him or her by the other for this purpose, the gift is only of the money and not of the property for which it is used. In this case, the rights of…

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