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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L3611-4

In the exercise of its powers, the metropole of Lyon has the same rights and is subject to the same obligations as the public establishments of inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax status.In…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Credit for hours worked

Article R2123-4

…e provisions, to civil servants governed by Titles I to IV of the general civil service regulations and to contractual employees of the State, local authorities and their public administrative establi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Provisions applicable after registration of the company resulting from the cross-border transaction

Article L2374-4

Employee representatives sitting on the administrative or supervisory body, or participating in the general meeting or in the section or branch meetings of the company resulting from the cross-border…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Control of legality

Article L3132-4

Decisions and deliberations by which départements and their groupings waive, either directly or by means of a contractual clause, the right to bring any liability action against any natural or legal p…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Control of legality

Article L4142-4

Decisions and deliberations by which the regions waive, either directly or by means of a contractual clause, the right to bring any liability action against any natural or legal person whom they remun…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Operation (R).

Article R5211-40

Meetings of the departmental commission for intermunicipal cooperation are public. However, at the request of five members, each formation of the commission may decide, by an absolute majority of the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Creation, transfer or regrouping

Article R5125-4

…e Regional Health Agency to propose new premises that meet the conditions laid down in the decision and to produce the relevant supporting documents. During this period, the benefit of the rules on pr…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Appearance on preliminary recognition of guilt

Article 495-11

…decides to homologate the proposed sentence or sentences is motivated by the findings, on the one hand, that the person, in the presence of his lawyer, acknowledges the acts of which he is accused an…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Special provisions for public services.

Article L2512-4

…persons concerned have been given the opportunity to comment on the facts of which they are accused and to have access to the file concerning them. Removal from office and downgrading may only be orde…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article R331-4

…to declare their claim. This summons shall contain, under penalty of being declared null and void: 1° A copy of the summons to pay valid as a seizure of property; 2° A summons to declare th…

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