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Showing 101110 of 64765 articles for Art. Arrêté of 2 April 2012

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: POLICE

Article L2212-2-2

…ut to no avail, the mayor carries out compulsory pruning work intended to put an end to the advance of private plantations on the right-of-way of roads on which he exercises the traffic police pursuan…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Development grant.

Article L2334-22-2

I.- By way of derogation, the new communes mentioned in article L. 2113-1 created after the promulgation of law no. 2010-1563 of 16 December 2010 on the reform of local authorities, which have 10,000…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Development grant.

Article L2334-23-2

…ne in the overseas departments receives an allocation under the equalisation grant mentioned in III of article L. 2334-23-1 calculated on the basis of its population, multiplied by a synthetic index c…

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

Article L2563-2-2

In all communes where a first numbering operation is carried out, half of the cost of the operation, if completed before 31 December 2008, is subject to financial compensation in the form of an except…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Social protection

Article L3123-20-2

The members of the departmental council are affiliated to the general social security scheme under the conditions defined in article L. 382-31 of the social security code. The contributions of the dep…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Social protection

Article L4135-20-2

Members of the regional council are affiliated to the general social security scheme under the conditions defined in article L. 382-31 of the social security code. The contributions of the regions and…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Planning and sustainable development

Article L4424-26-2

For the implementation of the tasks provided for in the second paragraph of Article L. 4424-26-1, the Office is competent to carry out, on behalf of the territorial collectivity of Corsica or any publ…

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

Article L5211-28-2

…public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax status may collect, in place of its member municipalities, the amounts from which they benefit under the global operating allocat…

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

Article L5211-27-2

The provisions of article L. 2241-3 are applicable to public establishments for intercommunal cooperation.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Community of communes

Article L5214-23-2

The loss of revenue that the communauté de communes suffers as a result of the temporary exemptions enjoyed by new constructions as well as the premises referred to in articles 1384 C and 1384 D of th…

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