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Showing 281290 of 19637 articles for Art. CA Paris 6-12-1991 n° 90-10344

French Labour CodeIn force
Section 6: Load handling

Article D4152-12

Pregnant women are not allowed to use hand trucks to carry loads.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 12: On-street vehicle parking charges

Article R2333-120-19

…onmentally-friendly transport and traffic financed by the proceeds of parking charge fees are identical to those listed in article R. 2334-12 as well as those falling within the scope of the provision…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 12: On-street vehicle parking charges

Article R2333-120-18

…ation with their own tax authority exercising full responsibility for the organisation of mobility, car parks and parking areas and, for all roads, the road network, the revenue from parking fees is t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Powers (R).

Article R2511-12

…the information mentioned in articles R. 2511-8, R. 2511-9 and R. 2511-11. These dwellings are allocated or proposed for allocation under the conditions set out in articles R. 2511-8 to R. 2511-11.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Recording by bankers of cheque payment incidents due to insufficient funds.

Article R131-12

…r it is an individual account or a collective account, and information enabling the precise identification of the drawee ; 2° The name or corporate name of the account holder, his address and : a) if…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Appeals provided for in Article L. 464-8.

Article R464-12

The appeals provided for in article L. 464-8 shall be lodged by a written statement in triplicate lodged against a receipt at the registry of the Paris Court of Appeal containing, under penalty of nul…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Water and sanitation

Article R2224-12

…e treatment mentioned in article R. 2224-11 must enable compliance with the quality objectives applicable to receiving waters by the décret n°91-1283 du 19 décembre 1991, by the water development and…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section IV: Judicial separation of property.

Article 1293

…ter the entry provided for in the preceding article has been made in the margin of the birth certificate of each of the spouses or, if that certificate is not kept in a French register, after the extr…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 12 bis : Fees payable for occupancy of the public domain by water and sewerage works

Article R2333-122

…e communal public domain is made available to a public inter-communal establishment or a mixed syndicate under the conditions set out in article L. 1321-2, the public establishment for inter-municipal…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 12 bis : Fees payable for occupancy of the public domain by water and sewerage works

Article R2333-123

…hing works, the part due for the occupation of the public domain is established separately on the occasion of the first revision of the agreement.

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