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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Conditions for exercising municipal mandates

Article L2123-35

The mayor or the elected municipal representatives deputising for him or having received a delegation benefit, on the occasion of their duties, from protection organised by the municipality in accorda…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 312-6

The following are considered as authors' artistic experience: 1° Writing or directing a cinematographic or audiovisual work of fiction, animation or creative documentary released in cinemas or broadca…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IV: Penal provisions.

Article L241-3

…ue; 2° The fact, for managers, of distributing fictitious dividends among shareholders, in the absence of an inventory or by means of fraudulent inventories; 3° The fact that the managing partners, ev…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Donation and use of organs, tissues or cells for therapeutic purposes

Article R1522-3

For their application in Wallis and Futuna: 1° Article R. 1231-2 is replaced by the following provisions, to which 14° of Article R. 1527-1 does not apply: "Art. R. 1231-2. - The donor shall express h…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Establishments providing family information, advice or counselling

Article R2311-3

I.-Persons who set up or manage an approved establishment in accordance with the procedure set out in article R. 2311-2 may receive financial assistance from the State. This assistance is paid under c…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Calculation methods for creative documentaries

Article 311-49

…rtion to the amount of the hourly cash contribution. This coefficient is rounded to four decimal places; 3° Third group: 0.5. B.-The coefficient applied to the duration of works is set at 2.2 for crea…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Emphyteutic administrative lease

Article L1311-3

…ng from this lease and, where applicable, from non-detachable agreements concluded for the performance of the public service or the completion of the operation of general interest. As an exception to…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Professional secrecy, accounting and statutory auditing

Article L526-35

…may not be invoked against the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, the Banque de France, the Institut d'émission d'outre-mer, the Institut d'émission des départements d'outre-mer or the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: POWERS

Article L3642-3

…512-5, L. 512-6 et L. 513-1 of the Internal Security Code to the metropolis of Lyon:1° The reference to the public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation is replaced by the reference to the m…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection IV: Special provisions for the register of associations

Article 30-17

…s of Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin and Moselle.It contains the following:1° The title, object, registered office, volume and folio number of the association's entry in the court's register of associations, a co…

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