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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Formation and performance of the contract

Article L341-9

…lender who has not complied with the formalities prescribed in the last paragraph of article L. 312-92 and article L. 312-93 may not claim from the borrower the sums corresponding to the interest and…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter III: Counterfeiting and other product-related offences

Article L413-9

It is forbidden to make people believe in the French origin of foreign products or, for all products, in an origin different from their true origin, by adding to, subtracting from or in any way alteri…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter III: Certification of conformity

Article L433-9

…wn in articles L. 433-3 to L. 433-7, a title, certificate or any other document attesting that a product or service has certain characteristics which have been the subject of certification; 2° Using a…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: Conformity

Article L451-9

Violation of the prohibitions set out in article L. 413-4 is punishable by two years' imprisonment and a fine of 300,000 euros.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Implementing measures

Article L412-9

…e identification and registration of bovine animals and regarding the labelling of beef and beef products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 820/97, of pigmeat, of sheepmeat and of poultrymeat w…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Creation of a new commune

Article L2113-9

…ttributes or assigns directly to such an establishment. The creation of the new commune may only be decided by decree of the State representative in the department concerned if the request mentioned i…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: The Town Council

Article L2121-9

The mayor may convene the municipal council whenever he deems it useful.He is obliged to convene it within a maximum of thirty days when a reasoned request is made to him by the State representative i…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: The mayor and deputy mayors

Article L2122-9

In communes of 1,000 inhabitants or more, when it is necessary to elect a new mayor, the municipal council is deemed to be complete if the only vacancies that exist within it are the consequence of:

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Police powers relating to specific objects

Article L2213-9

The mayor's police powers cover the method of transporting deceased persons, the maintenance of order and decency in cemeteries, burials and exhumations, without it being permissible to make distincti…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Guarantees granted to holders of municipal mandates

Article L2123-9

Mayors, on the one hand, and deputy mayors, on the other hand, who, in order to exercise their mandate, have ceased their professional activity, benefit, if they are employees, from the provisions of…

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