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Showing 25412550 of 21962 articles for Art. BOFiP-IS-CHAMP-10-30-§§ 320 et 330

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V: Endowments, grants and miscellaneous funds

Article R2335-10

All supplies of drinking water, whether paid for or free of charge, give rise to the application of the charge, with the exception of: 1° Supplies made to other public drinking water distribution serv…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: REVENUE

Article R2336-10

…isolated communes eligible under the fund are calculated in proportion to the relative difference between the average per capita resource indicator for French Polynesia and the per capita resource in…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: ACCOUNTING

Article D2342-10

Expenditure commitment, authorisation and settlement operations are recorded in the administrative accounts, in accordance with the procedures laid down by order of the Minister for the Interior and t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: ACCOUNTING

Article D2343-10

…re the use of the following documents: 1° Divisional journals on which transactions are entered in detail in chronological order, as and when they are recorded; 2° A journal and a general ledger or a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: COMMUNE SECTION

Article D2411-10

The head office of the union commission is set at the town hall of the chief town of the commune to which the section belongs.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: The Borough Council

Article R2511-10

…within the territorial jurisdiction of several arrondissement councils, the allocation of housing between the arrondissements or groups of arrondissements is made by the mayor of the commune after co…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XIX: Procedure applicable to sexual offences and the protection of minors who are victims

Article D47-10

…ssistance proceedings, throughout the criminal proceedings, of decisions that may affect relations between the parents and their children. The investigating judge may seek the opinion of the juvenile…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Establishment and composition

Article D49-10

…ns Courts of Appeal. Dijon Dijon and Besançon Courts of Appeal Nancy Courts of Appeal of Nancy and Metz Versailles Courts of Appeal of Versailles and Rouen

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Issuing and enforcing financial penalties pursuant to the Framework Decision of the Council of the European Union of 24 February 2005

Article D48-10

The certificate must be translated into the official language or one of the official languages of the executing State or into one of the official languages of the institutions of the European Communit…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: General conditions of detention

Article D147-10

…lic prosecutor at that court shall directly send a copy of the decision(s) to the territorially competent sentence enforcement judge. The latter will then issue the summons or summonses provided for b…

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