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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Own funds

Article R351-25

…7 mentioned in Article R. 321-1 or under class 17 mentioned in Article R. 211-2 of the Mutual Code, may have on their members by way of contribution reminders during the next twelve months, are classi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 7: Transformation and merger.

Article L5842-10

…"or the development of an urban community and its evolution into a regional metropolis as the case may be" and: "whose eligibility for the grant provided for in the eleventh paragraph of Article L. 5…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Commission de conciliation et d'indemnisation des accidents médicaux, des affections iatrogènes et des infections nosocomiales.

Article R1142-10

…Chairman, the Deputy Chairmen, if any, and the members of the Commission, as well as the work that may be entrusted to staff from the Office made available to the Commission pursuant to article L. 11…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Health checks and surveillance

Article R1321-24

…supplied by a public distribution service, analyses from the programme mentioned in article R. 1321-23 may replace those carried out in application of article R. 1321-15 when the following two conditi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Health rules applicable to bathing water

Article D1332-25

…nt and manage pollution in the short term. The person responsible for the bathing water informs the mayor and the director general of the regional health agency as soon as they become aware of situati…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Departmental and territorial fire and rescue services

Article R1424-1

…cs and technology, human resources, training, administration and finance.These services and centres may be organised within groupings, themselves organised within sub-directorates, which carry out ope…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Operations following death (R)

Article R2213-2-1

…its closure; c) The list of transmissible infections for which, if they are suspected, an exception may be made, under the conditions laid down in article R. 2213-14, to the maximum time limit for tra…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 4: Special measures.

Article 20

1. In the cases listed in article 2 of law no. 83-1119 of 23 December 1983, the following may be decided, in accordance with the terms and conditions of application laid down by decree in the Conseil…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter III: Immunities, safeguards and obligations of customs officials.

Article 55 bis

…for in this Code or when required on the basis of the Code of Criminal Procedure, customs officers may be authorised not to be identified by their first and last names but to use their employment com…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of French courts

Article 689-7

…tion for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation, done at Montreal on 23 September 1971, may be prosecuted and tried under the conditions laid down in Article 689-1 any p…

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