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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Meetings.

Article L3121-9-1

The chairman may decide that the meeting of the departmental council is to be held in several places by videoconference. When the meeting of the departmental council is held by videoconference, the qu…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Inspections and investigations

Article L621-9-2

In accordance with the conditions laid down by decree in the Conseil d'Etat, the Autorité des marchés financiers may : 1° Delegate to market undertakings and, where applicable, to clearing houses the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Inspections and investigations

Article L621-9-1

When the Secretary General of the AMF, or the Deputy Secretary General specially delegated for this purpose, decides to conduct investigations, he shall authorise the investigators in accordance with…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Legal interest rate

Article D754-4

Article D. 313-1-A is applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands in the version resulting from Decree no. 2014-1115 of 2 October 2014.

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

Article R1613-4

The following are eligible for the compensation mentioned in Article L. 1613-6, under the conditions set out in Article R. 1613-5, the following assets:1° Road infrastructure and engineering structure…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter V: Criminal provisions

Article L335-4-1

I.-It is punishable by a fine of €3,750 to knowingly undermine, for purposes other than research, an effective technological measure as defined in article L. 331-5, in order to alter the protection of…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Death certificates.

Article 91

The operative part of the declaratory judgment of death is transcribed in the civil status registers of the actual or presumed place of death and, where applicable, in those of the place of the deceas…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Common principles

Article L6323-9

The Caisse des dépôts et consignations manages the personal training account, the dematerialised service, its general conditions of use and the automated processing mentioned in article L. 6323-8 unde…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Summary orders.

Article 957

The first president may also, in the event of an appeal, suspend the enforcement of judgments improperly qualified as final, or exercise the powers conferred on him in respect of provisional enforceme…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Supplementary allowance.

Article R3423-4

When the additional allowance provided for in article L. 3423-9 is paid, the employee is given a document indicating: 1° The rate of the minimum growth wage; 2° The number of hours corresponding to th…

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