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Showing 361370 of 13064 articles for Art. CE 9-12-2022 n° 459206

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 4: Procedures for drawing up and issuing the payment notice for the parking charge

Article R2333-120-10

When the payment notice is notified by the Agence nationale de traitement automatisé des infractions, the information to be entered on this notice, including the notice number, is recorded as soon as…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 5: Provisions relating to the collection of parking charges by a contracting third party

Article R2333-120-11

…ich it is due, a third-party organisation may be used, under the conditions and according to the procedures set out in article L. 1611-7-1.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 4: Procedures for drawing up and issuing the payment notice for the parking charge

Article R2333-120-8

No one may be appointed to issue payment notices for the post-parking charge or continue to carry out this activity if they do not meet the following conditions:1° Be of French nationality or a nation…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 1: Foreign nationals volunteering in France

Article D426-12

…referred to in Article L. 426-21 is issued to an association or foundation that has been in existence for at least three years and holds the authorisation provided for in article 15 de la loi n° 2006…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Measures relating to the intensity of public aid

Article 919-64

…ibuting them in cinemas due to abnormal market conditions linked to the significant drop in attendance at cinemas in the context of the end of the health crisis.Derogations to the conditions relating…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: The fixed fine procedure applicable to certain offences

Article D45-9

…rd to the date of dispatch of the means of payment attested by the postal operator's stamp.When notices of offence or increased fixed fine are sent to a person residing abroad, that person may make pa…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Referral by the Cour de cassation of the priority question of constitutionality to the Conseil constitutionnel

Article 126-10

…onstitutionality is raised on appeal, the separate pleading provided for in article 23-5 of Ordonnance n° 58-1067 of 7 November 1958 shall bear the words: "question prioritaire de constitutionnalité".…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Traditional herbal medicinal products

Article R5121-107-12

…rbal monograph has been established or where the herbal medicinal product consists of herbal substances, preparations or combinations thereof included in the list drawn up by the Commission of the Eur…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Acts of municipal authorities and litigation

Article L2573-12

…The sixth paragraph of IV. 2° The 6th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Hearings

Article R2333-120-52

…agents of the competent administration or call them before the court to provide explanations and, exceptionally, request clarifications from any person present whom one of the parties wishes to hear.

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