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French Consumer CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Civil penalties

Article L242-32

The information specified in the second paragraph of article L. 224-90 are stipulated on pain of nullity of the contract.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Civil penalties

Article L242-18-3

Where the trader has not reimbursed all of the sums paid by the consumer under the conditions set out in articles L. 224-25-22 and L. 224-25-23, the total amount outstanding is automatically increased…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 16: Partial or total transfer of the business.

Article R631-40

The articles R. 642-1 to R. 642-21, excluding the first paragraph of article R. 642-10, are applicable to the assignment referred to in l'article L. 631-22. The mandataire judiciaire performs the duti…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Calculation methods for fiction, animation and audiovisual adaptations of live performances

Article 311-43

The coefficients applicable to works in the fiction genre are determined as follows:I. - The works are divided into two groups:1° First group: works whose French hourly expenditure is equal to or grea…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions applicable to neighbourhood noise

Article R1336-7

Overall emergence in a given location is defined as the difference between the ambient noise level, including the particular noise in question, and the residual noise level, made up of all the usual o…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Registration

Article A822-5

No one may sit the admission tests unless they have been declared eligible. The admission tests, which are marked from 0 to 20, comprise: 1° An interview test lasting a maximum of half an hour, preced…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R2564-1-1

For its application in Mayotte, article R. 2123-5 is worded as follows:"Art. R. 2123-5.-I.-The duration of the hours credit for one quarter is equal to:" 1° To one hundred and fifty-six hours for mayo…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-Paragraph 3: Acts relating mainly to contracts and agreements concerning real estate and landed property

Article A444-113

The declaration of furniture to avoid confusion (number 90 in table 5) gives rise to the collection of a fee of 113.20 €.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV bis : The Great Customary Council of the Amerindian and Bushinenge populations

Article L7124-19

At the request of the Customary Grand Council of the Amerindian and Bushinenge populations, the territorial collectivity of French Guiana may create a public establishment for cultural and environment…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Rural solidarity grant.

Article L2334-22-1

The third fraction of the rural solidarity grant is allocated to the first ten thousand communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants or mentioned in I of article L. 2334-22-2, from among those eligible…

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