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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Provisions applicable to communes in the departments of Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique and Réunion

Article R2563-4-2

…unt is that defined in Article L. 2334-2. 3° The income taken into account is the last known reference tax income. The population taken into account to determine this per capita income is the populati…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Assessment of refusal of care

Article D4122-4-2

…Conseil national de l'ordre des sages-femmes respectively, is responsible for evaluating the practice of refusing care by healthcare professionals registered with each of these orders.These commissio…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Employee Rights Commission

Article R1233-26-4

The committee meets at least twice a year, convened by its chairman, on his or her own initiative or, within a maximum of two months, at the written request of the full representatives of this committ…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IV: Free pricing and competition.

Article Annexe 4-2

I.-Model table provided for in Article A. 444-203 SIREN number of the office or firm A B C D E F G H I J K L1 L2 M1 M2 N O ... ... .../ ... Legend: This table contains as many rows as there are office…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Obligation to report and declare.

Article R1221-49-2

…occurring in a recipient of labile blood products shall report it without delay to the haemovigilance and transfusion safety correspondent of the healthcare establishment in which the product was adm…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Aid for property investment and leasing granted to businesses

Article R1511-4-2

…thorities and their groupings determine the conditions for the allocation, liquidation, payment, cancellation and repayment of aid granted under this section. Benefit from this aid is subject to the c…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Support for cultural industries

Article R1511-43-2

…and 3° The company's operating accoun…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Provisions applicable to the judicial supervision of dangerous persons convicted of a felony or misdemeanour

Article D147-40-2

The person placed under judicial supervision must be summoned by the sentence enforcement judge of the judicial court in whose jurisdiction he is to reside, within a maximum of eight days of his relea…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Provisions relating to the resolution of banking crises

Article R613-46-2

…gulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013, with the exception of Article 72b(2)(b), (c), (k), (l) and (m) and paragraphs 3 to 5 of that Regulation ; c) Wh…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Charges for the transmission and distribution of electricity and gas and for oil pipelines (R)

Article R3333-4-2

The fees payable each year to a department for the temporary occupation of its public domain by work sites on public electricity distribution network structures are set by the general council under th…

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