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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions applicable to legal entities

Article L123-11-1

…o the law or contractual stipulations mentioned in the previous paragraph, its legal representative may set up its registered office at his domicile, for a period that may not exceed five years from t…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Agency agreement

Article L132-20-4

…orise a signal distributor to represent a work under the conditions mentioned in article L. 122-2-4 may only be exercised by a collective management organisation.If this organisation is governed by Ti…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Personalised pathway and republican integration contract

Article L413-3

…e newly-arrived foreign nationals to take up a job and integrate into French society. This training may give rise to standardised certification enabling the foreign national's language level to be ass…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Consultation of electors

Article L1112-16

…istered on the electoral roll and, in other territorial communities, one twentieth of the electors, may request that the organisation of a consultation on any matter falling within the decision of tha…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: LOCAL FINANCE COMMITTEE

Article L1211-4

…orities and for disseminating this work, in order to encourage the development of good practice. It may carry out evaluations of local public policies. Within a multi-year framework, it is responsible…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Resources and means

Article L1233-4

…nitor the implementation of the agreements referred to in Article L. 1233-3. The Board of Directors may refer any matter to the National Coordination Committee. It may make proposals and request that…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Miscellaneous provisions

Article L1311-18

Territorial authorities or their groupings may make premises available to trade union organisations, where the latter so request.The mayor, the president of the departmental council, the president of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Composition of capital

Article L1522-1

The deliberative assemblies of communes, départements, regions and their groupings may, for the purpose of creating local semi-public companies mentioned in Article L. 1521-1, acquire shares or receiv…

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

Article L1611-3-1

…Territorial authorities, their groupings and departmental and territorial fire and rescue services may take out loans with credit institutions or finance companies within the following limits and sub…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Effects of full adoption

Article 357

…the order chosen by them, subject to a limit of one surname for each of them.This option of choice may only be exercised once.In the absence of a joint declaration mentioning the child's choice of na…

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