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Showing 271280 of 52309 articles for Art. Cass. ass. plén. 2-10-2015 n° 14-14.256

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Accounting

Article L72-104-2

The accounting officer of the collectivity is solely responsible for carrying out, subject to the controls incumbent upon him, the collection of revenue as well as the payment of the expenditure of th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Right of access and request for rectification or deletion

Article R53-21-10

Any person whose identity is entered in the directory shall obtain, on request to the public prosecutor of their place of residence, a full statement of the references concerning them entered in the d…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1a: Complaints by electronic means

Article D8-2-10

The court with jurisdiction over the offences referred to in article 15-3-1 is the Paris judicial court.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 7: Simplified criminal order procedure

Article D45-2-10

When the public prosecutor's delegate notifies a misdemeanour criminal order in application of the second paragraph of article 495-3, he may receive payment of the criminal fines pronounced using an e…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Relations between the State and collecting institutions or bodies.

Article R*221-102

The competent administrative authority referred to in article R. 221-101 is the Minister for the Economy.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Disciplinary proceedings

Article R1442-22-10

The councillor in question may be assisted by one of his peers, by a lawyer admitted to the Conseil d'Etat and the Cour de Cassation or by a lawyer registered with a bar association. The file on the p…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Assistance and representation of the parties

Article D1453-2-10

The employer is reimbursed monthly by the State for the salaries maintained in application of article L. 1453-6 as well as all the benefits and corresponding social security charges for which it is re…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Distribution and transmission of electricity (R).

Article R2333-105-2

The fee payable each year to a municipality, a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation or a mixed syndicate for the temporary occupation, recorded over the course of a year, of its public…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Budgets and accounts

Article D72-101-2

The budget implementation period is limited to the same year to which that budget applies for the authorisation of expenditure and the issue of revenue vouchers.However, this period includes an additi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Accounting

Article D72-104-2

The appropriations allocated to expenditure for each financial year may not be used to pay expenditure for another financial year.However, expenditure committed but not mandated at the close of the fi…

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