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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Exercise by a taxpayer of shares belonging to the region

Article R4143-4

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 sum…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Single section: Shareholdings in commercial companies other than those referred to in 8° of Article L. 4211-1

Article R4211-4

The total amount of shareholdings held by a region in the capital of commercial companies does not represent more than 5% of its actual operating revenue as recorded in its last available management a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 1: Exercise by a taxpayer of shares belonging to the public establishment for intermunicipal cooperation

Article R5211-49

…ubmit it to the deliberative body of this establishment. The administrative tribunal's decision is handed down within two months of the application for authorisation being filed. Any decision refusing…

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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 General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: General 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
Sub-paragraph 1: Common 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
CHAPTER II: Local referendum

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
CHAPTER V: Accounting provisions

Article D6265-4

…int-Barthélemy continue to apply for the current financial year without any change in the budgetary and accounting framework. The new collectivity is competent to modify them by means of amending deci…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Revenue

Article D6264-4

The difference between the disposal value of a fixed asset and its net book value must be recorded in the investment section of the budget before the result of the operating section is determined.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Local referendum

Article D6332-4

The maximum number of places reserved for election posters, other than those set up next to polling stations, is set at sixteen in Saint-Martin.

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