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Showing 29712980 of 20747 articles for Art. Cass. com. 18 décembre 2001 n° 98-17320

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Insignia (R).

Article D2122-4

…e officers, and when replacing or representing the mayor pursuant to articles L. 2122-17 et L. 2122-18. Municipal councillors wear the tricolour scarf with silver fringed tassels when they replace the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Grants and subsidies

Article L2564-28

…ring operation is carried out, half of the cost of the operation, if completed before 31 December 2018, is subject to financial compensation in the form of an exceptional grant paid by the State.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Trial of offences

Article 926

For the application of the first paragraph of Article 399, the President of the High Court of Appeal, after consulting the President of the Court of First Instance and the Public Prosecutor, sets the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Common provisions and shareholdings

Article L764-14

The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same tabl…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: The judgment adopting the plan and the implementation of the plan.

Article L626-12

Without prejudice to the application of the provisions of Article L. 626-18, the duration of the plan is set by the court. It may not exceed ten years. Where the debtor is a person engaged in an agric…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4b: Compensation for victims of sodium valproate or its derivatives

Article L1142-24-10

Any person who considers that he or she has suffered harm as a result of one or more malformations or developmental disorders attributable to the prescription, before 31 December 2015, of sodium valpr…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: The jury

Article A212-20

By 31 December each year at the latest, the national joint employment and training committees with competence in the field of entertainment and sport propose for the following year, at the request of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Policy

Article L2542-4

Without prejudice to the powers of the representative of the State in the department by virtue of 9° of Article 2 of Section III of the Decree of 22 December 1789, the police matters entrusted to the…

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

Article R2311-13

If the administrative account has not been adopted by the date of the vote on the budget for the following financial year, when the result of the operating section, the financing requirement or, where…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption of the budget and settlement of accounts

Article R3312-11

If the administrative account has not been adopted by the date of the vote on the budget for the following financial year, when the result of the operating section, the financing requirement or, where…

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