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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L3421-1

The provisions of article L. 2512-25 are applicable to the departments of Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Dotation départementale d'équipement des collèges (Departmental grant for secondary school facilities)

Article L3334-16

In 2008, the amount of the departmental equipment grant for collèges is set at 328,666,225 euros.The amount allocated in 2008 to each department exercising the powers defined in article L. 213-2 of th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Loan guarantees

Article L3231-4-1

…i 1990 visant à la mise en oeuvre du droit au logement;4° Pour les opérations prévues à article L. 312-3-1 of the Construction and Housing Code.II. - The provisions of the fourth paragraph of article…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Loan guarantees

Article L3231-4

A département may only grant a loan guarantee or its surety to a private-law person mentioned in the penultimate paragraph of this article or in 1° of I of article L. 3231-4-1 or carrying out an opera…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Rural equipment support

Article L3232-1-2

…mental or regional committees for sea fishing and marine farming within the meaning of articles L. 912-1 et seq. of the rural and maritime fishing code, regional shellfish farming committees within th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L3221-3

…council who has ceased his duties as chairman of the departmental council pursuant to Articles L. 2122-4 or L. 4133-3 may not receive a delegation until the end of their term of office as a departmen…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General provisions

Article L3211-1

The departmental council, through its deliberations, regulates the affairs of the department in the areas of competence assigned to it by law.It is competent to implement any aid or action relating to…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Compulsory expenditure

Article L3321-1

…rtmental building;2° Expenditure relating to the functional allowances provided for in articles L. 3123-15 to L. 3123-18 and the training costs for elected representatives referred to in article L. 31…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Publicity and entry into force

Article L3131-2

I.-The following are forwarded to the State representative in the department, under the conditions set out in II:1° Deliberations of the departmental council or decisions taken by delegation of the de…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General provisions

Article L3211-2

…e of its powers to the standing committee, with the exception of those referred to in articles L. 3312-1 et L. 1612-12 to L. 1612-15. It may modify the list of powers thus delegated during its term of…

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