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Showing 85218530 of 24917 articles for Art. Cass. 2e civ. 18-9-2003 n° 01-16.019

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of budgets

Article L1612-13

The administrative account is sent to the State representative in the department no later than fifteen days after the deadline set for its adoption by articles L. 1612-9 and L. 1612-12.Failing this, t…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Subsection 1: Apprehension under an enforcement order

Article R222-1

Tangible movable property may be apprehended in the hands of the person who is required to hand it over by virtue of a writ of execution or directly in the hands of a third party who holds it on behal…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 3: Rules for the award of specific contracts concluded on the basis of a dynamic purchasing system

Article R2162-49

In order to award a specific contract, the purchaser shall invite all candidates admitted to the dynamic purchasing system to submit a tender under the conditions set out in Articles R. 2144-8 and R.…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Principles

Article A212-177

It is the responsibility of the administrative authority, when requesting the issue of bulletin no. 2 of the criminal record and the information contained in the automated national judicial file of pe…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Title II: PENALTIES

Article L820-1

In accordance with article L. 270-1, the provisions of articles L. 821-3 to L. 821-5, L. 822-1 to L. 822-6, L. 823-1 to L. 823-10, L. 823-11 to L. 823-17, L. 824-1 to L. 824-9 and L. 824-11 are applic…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Judicial police

Article 809-1

For the application of Article 41-2, references to articles L. 2339-5 and L. 2339-9 of the Defence Code and article L. 1er du code de la route (1) are replaced by references to the provisions applicab…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Role of the State.

Article L6122-3

In order to facilitate access to the functions of company manager in the trades sector and to ensure the further training and professional qualification of company managers in this sector and their em…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Remuneration.

Article L7124-10

When, pursuant to articles L. 7124-4 and L. 7124-4-1, the employment of a child is not subject to authorisation, the rules for dividing the remuneration received by this child between his legal repres…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Water and sanitation

Article R2224-22-2

The mayor shall acknowledge receipt, including by electronic means, of the initial declaration and the information supplementing it as soon as possible and no later than one month after the date of re…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions common to the various enforcement courts

Article D49-19

Where the sentenced person who is not in custody does not appear for the adversarial hearing, the judge or the sentence enforcement court shall either order that the hearing be postponed to a later da…

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