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Showing 42814290 of 41543 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 4-5-2010 n° 09-11.840

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Medical health centres.

Article D6124-418

The children's section, for children over 18 or 24 months of age, is made up of single rooms accounting for at least two-fifths of the total number of beds, and rooms with between two and a maximum of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Surgical health centres.

Article D6124-406

Any establishment with multi-bedded rooms must have at least two single rooms per twenty beds or fraction thereof.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Surgical health centres.

Article D6124-407

Throughout the day, there should never be less than one care worker for every five beds.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Registration and publicity.

Article R4381-40

The Director General of the Regional Health Agency will send a copy of the decision to register the company on the list of non-trading professional companies for nurses or masseur-physiotherapists to…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Registration upon declaration

Article A123-49

Applications for registration of savings and provident institutions or, where applicable, for amending registration shall be accompanied by the following supporting documents:1° The receipt for the fi…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Title VI: OVERSEAS PROVISIONS

Article L761-4

Articles L. 700-2, L. 722-7, L. 722-12, L. 732-8, L. 743-20, L. 751-1 to L. 751-13, L. 754-2, L. 754-4 and L. 754-5 are not applicable in French Guyana.

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter I: APPLICATIONS FOR RESIDENCE PERMITS

Article R431-4

A foreign national who is not in one of the situations referred to in articles R. 426-4, R. 426-6 and R. 431-5 must submit their application for a residence permit within two months of entering France…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Caisses de crédit agricole mutuel.

Article R512-4

…tember 1953;13° Le groupement interprofessionnel des fleurs et des plantes à parfum créé par la loi n° 41-3408 du 16 juillet 1941 ;14° The mixed syndicates provided for in Book VII of Part 5 of the Ge…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IV: Free pricing and competition.

Article R430-4

The press release provided for in the third paragraph of Article L. 430-3 contains the following in particular:1° The names of the undertakings concerned and the groups to which they belong;2° The nat…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article L131-4

The transfer by the author of his rights over his work may be total or partial. It must include for the benefit of the author a proportional share of the revenue from the sale or exploitation. However…

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