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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Revenue

Article L72-102-1

The revenue collected by the territorial collectivity of Martinique includes:1° The revenue of the départements provided for in Title III of Book III of Part Three;2° The revenue of the overseas dépar…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Changes in scope and organisation.

Article L5211-19

…n, where applicable, of the amounts paid by the establishment in application of III of article 1609 quinquies C , of V of article 1609 nonies C of the General Tax Code and of article L. 5211-28-4 of t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Emergency contraception in secondary education establishments and university and inter-university student health services

Article D5134-10-1

University and inter-university student health services supply students with emergency contraception drugs under the following conditions:1° Medicines are issued and administered free of charge to stu…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-14-1

Independently of the application of the provisions of Articles L. 232-13-1 and L. 232-14, the testing operations mentioned in Article L. 232-12 as well as those falling within the competence of the in…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Service regulations and pricing

Article L2224-12-1

Any supply of drinking water, whoever the beneficiary, is billed at the rate applicable to the corresponding category of user, households, occupants of buildings used primarily for residential purpose…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L1511-1-1

The State notifies the European Commission of the aid projects or aid schemes that the territorial authorities and their groupings wish to implement, subject to their compatibility with the State's de…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2a: First appearance

Article D32-1-1

The investigating judge who refers the matter to the liberty and custody judge pursuant to the provisions of the fourth paragraph of Article 137-1 for the purposes of remanding the person under invest…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: The company pension savings plan

Article D224-12-1

For the application of article L. 224-24, a compulsory inter-company retirement savings plan may be set up by several companies for the benefit of all their employees or one or more categories of empl…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 4: Development of marine resources.

Article L4433-15-1

In the regions of Guadeloupe and La Réunion, the territorial collectivities of French Guiana and Martinique, and the Department of Mayotte, the powers for the management and conservation of the sea's…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 709-1-1

The police and gendarmerie units may, ex officio or on the instructions of the public prosecutor or the sentence enforcement judge, apprehend any convicted person for whom the second paragraph of arti…

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