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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: The Departmental Director of Fire and Rescue Services

Article L1424-32

Each departmental or territorial fire and rescue service is placed under the authority of a departmental director of fire and rescue services, assisted by a deputy departmental director.The department…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Provisions specific to certain local public services

Article L1852-8

Professional or volunteer firefighters who are officers and, when they are chosen from among professional or volunteer firefighters who are not officers, fire and rescue centre chiefs and communal or…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Referral by the Cour de cassation of the priority question of constitutionality to the Conseil constitutionnel

Article 126-11

The president of the panel to which the case is distributed or his delegate, at the request of one of the parties or of his own motion, may, in urgent cases, reduce the time limit provided for in the…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Administrative decisions

Article 27-2

Decrees granting acquisition, naturalisation or reinstatement may be revoked with the assent of the Conseil d'Etat within two years of their publication in the Journal officiel if the applicant does n…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 40

The Public Prosecutor receives complaints and denunciations and assesses the action to be taken on them in accordance with the provisions of article 40-1.Any constituted authority, any public officer…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Court reconciliation software

Article 230-27

Software covered by this chapter may only be authorised by decree in the Conseil d'Etat issued after consultation with the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés. This decree shall spe…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 198

The parties and their lawyers are allowed until the day of the hearing to produce briefs which they communicate to the public prosecutor and the other parties.These briefs are filed at the registry of…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Technical sports advisors to sports federations

Article R131-17

Staff carrying out the duties of sports technical advisors are appointed by order of the Minister for Sport after consultation with : - the president of the federation concerned, in the case of those…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Financial organisation

Article R114-31

The centre's debts may be the subject of: 1° Either an ex gratia remission, in the event of embarrassment on the part of the debtors; 2° Or a write-off, in the event of insolvency on the part of the d…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Conference of conciliators

Article R141-13

The chairman of the conciliators' conference, in addition to the duties conferred upon him by article R. 141-7, is responsible for coordinating the work of the conciliators, ensuring the distribution…

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