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

Article L1611-8

The decision of the département or region to award an investment or operating grant to a project decided or subsidised by a local authority or group of local authorities is accompanied by a summary st…

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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 General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Creation procedure

Article L2113-8

…municipal councillors elected at the previous general renewal of the municipal councils, in accordance with article L. 2121-2, in each commune grouped together prior to the creation of the new commune…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Mediation.

Article 131-8

…he mediation, hear third parties who consent. The mediator may not be appointed, during the same proceedings, to carry out an investigative measure.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection I: Judgment on jurisdiction

Article 82-1

…questions of jurisdiction within a judicial court may be settled before the first hearing by reference to the file, at the request of a party or of the judge's own motion. The parties or their lawyers…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title IX bis: Hearing children in court.

Article 338-8

When the hearing is ordered by a panel, the panel may hear the minor itself or appoint one of its members to conduct the hearing and report back to it.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article 366-8

At the hearing, the parties shall be represented and assisted in accordance with the conditions laid down in Article 931. The court rules after hearing the opinion of the public prosecutor.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Cross-border recognition.

Article 509-8

…asures in civil matters shall be made before the president of the judicial court ruling under the accelerated procedure on the merits.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Respect for the human body

Article 16-8

…abling both the person who has donated an element or product of their body and the person who has received it to be identified may be disclosed. The donor may not know the identity of the recipient, n…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Loss of French nationality

Article 23-8

…nationality shall be lost by any French person who, being employed in a foreign army or public service or in an international organisation to which France does not belong or more generally providing a…

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