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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Common provisions

Article 20-2

…als who have the option of renouncing French nationality in the cases referred to in this title may exercise this option by declaration made in accordance with articles 26 et seq. He may renounce this…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Actions against those responsible for the damage.

Article R3122-20

The Office may, in order to exercise the subrogatory action provided for in Article L. 3122-4, intervene even for the first time in an appeal before any administrative or judicial court. In this case,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of dental surgeons.

Article R4127-206

…by law. Confidentiality covers everything that comes to the knowledge of the dental surgeon in the exercise of his profession, i.e. not only what has been entrusted to him, but also what he has seen,…

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

Article L2334-20

The rural solidarity grant is allocated to communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants and to certain district capitals with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants to take account, on the one hand, of the cost…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-20

…ral and material interests of tenants, owners and lessors of multi-family residential buildings may exercise the rights granted to civil parties in cases of intentional personal injury or destruction,…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Composition and election (R)

Article R5211-20

The electoral colleges empowered to appoint the representatives of the communes are constituted as follows: a) The communes with a population below the commune average for the département have 40% of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter Ia: Harm reduction

Article R3411-20

State financial aid is calculated by applying a unit amount to the quantity of equipment sold, determined in such a way that it does not exceed what is necessary to cover the net costs incurred in pla…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Brevet professionnel de la jeunesse, de l'éducation populaire et du sport (vocational qualifications in youth, popular education and sport)

Article D212-20

…rticle L. 6113-1 of the French Labour Code. It attests to the acquisition of a qualification in the exercise of a responsible professional activity with an educational or social aim, in the fields of…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section V: Calculation of tax

Article 200 C

…graph are retained in the basis of net overall income defined in article 158. This global option is exercised when the declaration provided for in article 170 is filed, and at the latest before the ex…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 4: Enforcement of the judgment, compensation for damages and forced execution

Article R623-20

…and falling within the scope of the group action brought by that association, in particular for the exercise of remedies.It entails the association's advance payment of all expenses and costs associat…

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