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Showing 13311340 of 44552 articles for Art. CAA Paris 21-2-2018 n° 17PA00527

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Public territorial establishments

Article L5219-2-1

…e allowances for carrying out the duties of president, vice-president and councillor of the Greater Paris metropolitan area.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: The Borough Council

Article L2511-23

…eliberations of the arrondissement councils are sent to the mayor of the commune or to the mayor of Paris. The latter shall forward them to the representative of the State in the département within a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: The Borough Council

Article L2511-22

To exercise the powers of the arrondissement council, the city council or the Paris council delegates, in the cases and under the conditions that it determines, to the arrondissement council the power…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: The Borough Council

Article L2511-24

Associations take part in municipal life. In each arrondissement a borough initiative and consultation committee is created. This committee brings together representatives of local associations or mem…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: The Borough Council

Article L2511-20

Housing allocated by the municipality or the City of Paris and located in the arrondissement is allocated half by the arrondissement mayor and half by the mayor of the municipality or by the mayor of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Organisation

Article L2513-2

The dissolution of the Marseille or Lyon municipal council automatically entails the dissolution of the arrondissement councils of the municipality concerned.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L3451-2

The departments and the interdepartmental institution referred to in article L. 3451-1 may be responsible for all or part of the collective sanitation and stormwater management of municipalities locat…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition (R).

Article R2511-2

In Paris arrondissement councils, Paris councillors take precedence over arrondissement councillors. In the arrondissement councils of Marseille and Lyon, the municipal councillors rank before the arr…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Provisions applicable to Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Paris, Hospices civils de Lyon and Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Marseille

Article R6132-22

The provisions of I of article L. 6132-1 do not apply to Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Paris.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Provisions applicable to Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Paris, Hospices civils de Lyon and Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Marseille

Article R6132-23

The Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Paris, the Hospices civils de Lyon or the Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Marseille may, for one or more of the hospital groupings provided for in Article R. 6147-4…

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