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Showing 66316640 of 8385 articles for Art. CE 26-11-1982 n° 30956

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General provisions

Article L4331-2-1

…for in the current year's budget is known.During the year, one or more twelfths may be paid in advance of the normal rate if the region's available funds are temporarily insufficient. Additional alloc…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Infrastructure management

Article L4424-22

By way of derogation from article 9 of law no. 83-663 of 22 July 1983 supplementing the loi n° 83-8 du 7 janvier 1983 relative à la répartition de compétences entre les communes, les départements, les…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VII quinquies : Compliance programme penalties

Article 764-44

…orm the Public Prosecutor of any difficulties encountered in drawing up or implementing the compliance programme. It will also submit a report to the public prosecutor when the time limit for implemen…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article R753-4

…licable articlesIn the wording resulting from the decreeR. 312-9 and R. 312-10no. 2020-1565 of 10 December 2020R. 312-11No. 2014-737 of 30 June 2014R. 312-12n° 2020-1565 of 10 December 2020R. 312-13 t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Registration

Article R822-2

…national master's degree or a qualification or diploma conferring the grade of master issued in France or a diploma obtained in a foreign country and judged to be of a level comparable to that of the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Approval and exclusion.

Article L125-18

…cases provided for in the first paragraph of Article L. 125-17, the grouping or company may not proceed with the installation of a new successful bidder unless the former holder of the shares or, in…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General principles.

Article 372

…joint declaration by the father and mother addressed to the director of the judicial registry services of the judicial court or by decision of the family affairs judge.

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Organisation and operation

Article D112-15

The decisions of the Board of Directors are enforceable if, within fifteen days of their receipt, the Minister responsible for sport has not made any observations known. However, decisions relating to…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Issue and withdrawal of authorisation

Article R131-5

…articles of association, the internal rules and the disciplinary rules, as well as a copy of the receipt for the declaration provided for inarticle 5 of the law of 1 July 1901 on the contract of asso…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Simplified arrangements for declaring and collecting social security contributions

Article L1522-3

…ection 1 of chapter III bis of book I of the social security code relating to the titre emploi-service entreprise and of chapter III of title VII of book II of the first part of this code apply in Gua…

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