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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: Clearance sales, unpacking sales, sales on sale and factory outlet sales.

Article R310-19

Shall be punished by the fine provided for by the 5° of Article 131-13 of the Penal Code for fifth-class offences: 1° Failure to display the receipt for the declaration of the liquidation sale under t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V: Endowments, grants and miscellaneous funds

Article D2335-1-1

The scale mentioned in 3° and 4° of the I of article R. 2335-1 determining the amount of allocations in respect of increases in the allocation provided for in article L. 2335-1 is set as follows, by m…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Own funds

Article R351-28

I.-The undertakings mentioned in Article L. 351-7 are prohibited from making a distribution relating to one of the items mentioned in i and ii of a of Article 69 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Allowances for holders of municipal mandates

Article L2123-18-1

Municipal council members may be reimbursed for travel and subsistence expenses incurred to attend meetings of bodies or organisations where they represent their municipality in an official capacity,…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Internal model

Article R352-23

Insurance and reinsurance undertakings shall draw up documentation describing the details of the design and operation of their internal model. This documentation shall demonstrate that the undertaking…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter I: Purpose and award conditions

Article 831-4

The total amount of sums allocated under the provisions of this Title may not exceed the following ceilings:1° With regard to the sums invested, 35% of the sums entered on 31 January 2023 in the autom…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Regulatory and monitoring role in the field of technical protection measures and the identification of protected works and objects

Article R331-37

Where no appeal to the Paris Court of Appeal has been lodged within the period provided for in the first paragraph of Article R. 331-44 or where such appeal has been rejected by a court decision that…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: General conditions of detention

Article D147-2

The court, which, pursuant, as the case may be, to articles 712-6,712-7or 712-13, grants this suspension of sentence, may provide that the sentenced person will be subject to one or more of the follow…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 7: Foreign nationals entrusted to the child welfare service

Article L423-22

In the year following their eighteenth birthday or if they come under the provisions of article L. 421-35, foreign nationals who were entrusted to the child welfare service or to a trustworthy third p…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: General provisions and differentiated exercise of powers

Article L1111-2

The communes, départements and regions regulate the affairs of their jurisdiction by their deliberations.Under the conditions laid down by law, they have regulatory powers for the exercise of their ju…

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