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French Public Health CodeIn force
5. Minors

Article R1112-36

When the patient is under the care of a departmental child welfare service, the director will send the confidential certificate from the head doctor of the service, stating the diagnosis and the proba…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
4. Prisoners

Article R1112-33

…and guarding measures are the exclusive responsibility of police or gendarmerie personnel, and are carried out under the responsibility of the military or police authority.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
5. Minors

Article R1112-34

…parental authority or the judicial authority. The admission of a minor who has been placed in an educational establishment or entrusted to a private individual by the judicial authority ruling on educ…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II : Organisation

Article R4422-36

In application of article L. 4424-7 ownership: a) Buildings listed or registered under the law of 31 December 1913 relating to historic monuments and archaeological sites, belonging to the State, the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of French courts

Article 689-3

For the application of the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism, signed in Strasbourg on 27 January 1977, and of the Agreement between the Member States of the European Communities on t…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter I: PROVISIONS SPECIFIC TO BOOK I

Article R2621-3

I.-When a purchaser awards a contract for the purchase of a motor vehicle in categories equivalent in Saint-Barthélemy to categories M and N as defined inarticle R. 311-1 of the Highway Code , and the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Institutions responsible for regulation and control

Article L785-3

…e Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the adaptations mentioned in II and III, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table: Applicable articlesIn the wording resulting fromAr…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Organisation

Article L2511-33

…he articles L. 2123-25 to L. 2123-29, L. 2123-31 to L. 2123-35 and 3° of Article L. 2321-2 are applicable to mayors, deputy mayors and members of an arrondissement council of the City of Paris or the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Organisation

Article L2511-35

Deputy allowances paid to arrondissement mayors may not exceed the maximum allowances paid to deputy mayors of the municipality or of Paris. The functional allowance for deputy mayors of the arrondiss…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Organisation

Article L2511-34

The allowances voted by the municipal councils of Marseille and Lyon for the actual performance of the duties of deputy mayor and member of special delegation acting as deputy mayor are at most equal…

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