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Showing 341350 of 44338 articles for Art. CE 24-2-2017 n° 387972

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Funeral services

Article L2223-24

…3-23: 1° If they have been convicted by a final judgment of a suspended or unsuspended prison sentence, listed in bulletin no. 2 of the criminal record, for a crime or one of the following offences: -…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 5: Transportation of the body after committal (R).

Article R2213-24

Authorisation to transport ashes outside mainland France or an overseas department is issued by the prefect of the department where the deceased was cremated or where the applicant resides.

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Prohibition of certain customer-seeking procedures and prohibition of certain agreements or arrangements.

Article R4235-24

…a member; in the case of pharmacies and medical laboratories, this name or acronym may not take precedence over the name of the pharmacy or laboratory; 4° Titles and functions approved for this purpo…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions.

Article L5211-24

Public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation which received, in place of the communes making up the public establishment, the allocations provided for in article L. 234-13 of the code des com…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Work within the protection perimeter

Article R1322-24

…its opinion.The Prefect sends the draft order to the holder of the authorisation to operate the source and informs him of the date and place of the meeting of the departmental council, in accordance w…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: The judgment adopting the plan and the implementation of the plan.

Article L626-24

The court may instruct the administrator to carry out the acts, necessary for the implementation of the plan, that it determines.The judicial representative remains in office for the time necessary fo…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-sub-paragraph 2: Declarations for the purposes of amending or cancelling registration

Article R123-249

…tion from the National Register of Companies is mentioned therein with an indication of the date of cessation, unless use is made of the option provided for in c of 2° of article R. 123-247.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-sub-paragraph 2: Declarations for the purposes of amending or cancelling registration

Article R123-247

…of the declaration of unseizability or of the unseizability of his rights over his principal residence or the revocation of the waiver of the unseizability of his rights over his principal residence a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-sub-paragraph 2: Declarations for the purposes of amending or cancelling registration

Article R123-248

…le 440 of the Civil Code and those discharging or revoking them; 2° Upon declaration by an heir, successor or any person authorised for this purpose, the death of the individual limited liability comp…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services within the territory of States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L526-24

…ctronic money that it is authorised to carry on in the territory of its home country other than France, and depending on the authorisation it has received there, any electronic money institution may c…

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