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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Checks, verifications and identity records

Article 78-2-4

…e officers and deputy judicial police officers mentioned in 1°, 1° bis and 1° ter of Article 21 may carry out not only the identity checks provided for in the eighth paragraph of article 78-2 but also…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-18-8

…efuse to give access to a document, whatever its medium, and to provide a copy, to refuse to communicate information or to respond to a summons or to refuse to give access to the premises, places or e…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Participation of residents in local life

Article L2143-1

…paration, implementation and evaluation of actions of interest to the district, in particular those carried out under city policy. The town council may allocate premises to the neighbourhood councils…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Seizures of certain intangible movable property or intangible movable rights

Article 706-153

…he seizure, at the advanced expense of the Treasury, of the property or intangible rights the confiscation of which is provided for by the article 131-21 of the Penal Code. The examining magistrate ma…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Combating the international spread of disease.

Article L3115-1

…in this area with a view to preventing the spread of transmissible diseases by land, sea or air. To carry out these checks, the representative of the State in the département may authorise the agents…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Illegal practice.

Article L4161-5

…ed down, in accordance with the conditions set out inarticle 131-35 of the Criminal Code ; b) Confiscation of the thing that was used or intended to be used to commit the offence or of the thing that…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Submission of applications

Article R612-8

The benefit of the filing date of the patent application is acquired on the date of submission of at least one copy of the documents listed in Article L. 612-2, drawn up in the French language, subjec…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Tax penalties

Article 1794

…only the value of those products in excess or insufficiently declared shall serve as the basis for calculating the penalty;5° Infringements of the provisions of articles 521, 524, 526, 531, 535 to 53…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Additional departmental tax on tourist tax

Article L3333-1

…ficiary of the additional tax at the end of the collection period. The proceeds of this tax are allocated to expenditure intended to promote the development of tourism in the Lyon department or metrop…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Mixed associations composed of communes and public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation or exclusively public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation

Article L5843-1

…oned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in French Polynesia, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table, subject to the adaptations provided for in II. APP…

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