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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Financial autonomy

Article LO1114-2

Within the meaning of article 72-2 of the Constitution, the local authorities' own resources are made up of the proceeds of taxes of all kinds for which the law authorises them to set the base, rate o…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Financial autonomy

Article LO1114-3

For each category of local authority, the share of own resources is calculated by comparing the amount of own resources with the amount of their total resources, excluding loans, resources correspondi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Financial autonomy

Article LO1114-4

The Government shall submit to Parliament, for a given year, no later than 1 June of the second year following, a report showing, for each category of territorial authority, the share of own resources…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Public contracts

Article L1414-2

…ed in accordance with a formalised procedure, the estimated value of which, excluding tax, taken individually, is equal to or greater than the European thresholds listed in the appendix to the Public…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Public contracts

Article L1414-1

The public contracts of local authorities, their public establishments and their groupings are awarded and executed in accordance with the provisions of the Public Order Code.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Public contracts

Article L1414-4

…the overall amount shall be submitted to the tendering committee for its opinion. When the deliberative assembly is called upon to decide on a draft amendment, the opinion of the call for tenders comm…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Public contracts

Article L1414-3

…housing office, a tendering committee is set up comprising the following members:1° One representative elected from among the members with voting rights on the tendering committee of each member of t…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IV: Provisional enforcement.

Article 514

Decisions at first instance are provisionally enforceable by operation of law unless the law or the decision rendered provides otherwise.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Death certificates.

Article 79-1

When a child dies before its birth has been declared to the civil registry, the civil registrar draws up a birth record and a death record on production of a medical certificate stating that the child…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Death certificates.

Article 82

The police officer will be required to forward immediately to the registrar of the place where the person died, all the information set out in his report, on the basis of which the death certificate w…

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