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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 5: Transfers of property, rights and obligations

Article R5215-4

The operations decided upon, other than those mentioned in article R. 5215-5, which have received a start of execution constituted by the legal act creating between the contractor and the project mana…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial and accounting provisions

Article D5217-4

The chapters of the budgets voted by nature correspond:a) Investment section:- to each of the two-digit accounts in classes 1 and 2 open to the nomenclature by nature, with the exception of the accoun…

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

Article D5334-4

The mayors who are members of the consultative commission and their alternates are appointed by the prefect on the recommendation of the departmental association of mayors or, in the absence of a depa…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: LEGAL REGIME FOR ACTS TAKEN BY THE AUTHORITIES OF THE COLLECTIVITY AND RELATIONS BETWEEN THE STATE AND THE COLLECTIVITY

Article D6243-4

The administrative court or the Conseil d'Etat may, if they grant the authorisation, make its effect subject to the prior deposit of the costs of the proceedings. In this case, they shall set the amou…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 6: Financial provisions.

Article D5842-4

I. - The articles R. 5211-9 to R. 5211-11 are applicable in French Polynesia subject to the adaptations provided for in II.II. - For the application of article R. 5211-9, the words: "in the department…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article D6213-4

…nditions:1° Articles R. 3111-1 to R. 3123-8 are not applicable to Saint-Barthélemy;2° Articles D. 3142-1 to D. 3142-5 are not applicable to Saint-Barthélemy.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: VOTER PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY LIFE

Article D6232-4

The maximum number of sites reserved for election posters, apart from those set up next to polling stations, is set, in Saint-Barthélemy, at eleven.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article R5421-4

The Board of Directors establishes its rules of procedure. It is convened by its Chairman. Such a meeting is convened by right if requested by one third of the members of the Board.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: LEGAL REGIME FOR ACTS TAKEN BY THE AUTHORITIES OF THE COLLECTIVITY AND RELATIONS BETWEEN THE STATE AND THE COLLECTIVITY

Article D6242-4

The State representative may suspend the application of the agreement provided for in Article D. 6242-3 when it observes serious deterioration in the operation of the teletransmission system or is pre…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VI: LOCAL AUTHORITY FINANCES

Article D6261-4

For budgets voted by nature, the budget item corresponds to the most detailed subdivision of the nomenclature defined by joint order of the Minister for the Budget and the Minister for Overseas France…

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