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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 231-23

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 231-21

Labels may be awarded by the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée when classifying arthouse cinemas and awarding subsidies.Labels may be accumulated.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter XIII: Criminal records

Article 876

Article 773 reads as follows: "Art. 773.-A copy of each form recording a decision resulting in the deprivation of electoral rights shall be sent to the competent administrative authority in the territ…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Duties of dental surgeons in relation to social medicine.

Article R4127-251

A dental surgeon who, while practising his profession, practises preventive dentistry in a community or provides a public screening consultation is prohibited from using this function to increase his…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General rules

Article R214

…liquidated according to the tariff and rules of each competent court. The provisions of articles R. 222, R. 223, R. 224-2, R. 225, R. 228, R. 228-1, R. 229, R. 230, R. 233 and R. 234 are applicable fo…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Economic rights

Article L122-4

Any representation or reproduction in whole or in part made without the consent of the author or his successors in title or assigns is unlawful. The same applies to translation, adaptation or transfor…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Roads

Article L3213-4

The departmental council decides on the establishment and maintenance of ferries, water crossings and engineering structures on departmental roads; it sets toll rates within the limits provided for in…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of dental surgeons.

Article R4127-231

It is the duty of the dental surgeon to take all necessary precautions to prevent unauthorised persons from gaining access to the medicines and products he or she is required to use in the practice of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Criminal provisions.

Article L3826-3

…3353-3 is applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the version resulting from Law No. 2019-222 of 23 March 2019 on programming 2018-2022 and reform for the justice system.Article L. 3353-4 is…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 5: Rights of registered persons and access to information

Article A123-97

The personal data referred to in Article R. 123-222 shall be kept until the end of the fifth year following the death of the person concerned. After this period, the data is kept in the form of an int…

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