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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Adoption of the budget and settlement of accounts

Article LO6471-14

…nce with the procedure set out in article LO 6471-7, the Chambre territoriale des comptes for the local authority's next approved budget.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 4: Deliberations

Article L7122-14

…are then valid regardless of the number of those present.Subject to the provisions of articles L. 7123-1, L. 7123-5 and L. 7123-7, the decisions of the Assembly are taken by a majority of the votes c…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II : Powers of the President of the Territorial Council

Article LO6462-14

The authorities of the Republic may grant power to the president of the territorial council or his representative to negotiate and sign agreements mentioned in the last paragraph of article LO 6462-13…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Meetings

Article L7222-14

…reports on the basis of which they were adopted, requests for a special vote, the results of votes cast specifying, in the case of public votes, the names of the voters and the direction of their vot…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Powers of the Chairman of the Executive Council

Article L7224-14

…deliberated within the Executive Council, take any measure:1° Tending to specify the terms of application of the deliberations of the Assembly of Martinique;2° Laying down the rules for the organisat…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: National Commission for Decentralised Cooperation (R)

Article R1115-14

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Conditions for issuing, suspending or revoking approval for bodies providing training for local elected representatives (R)

Article R1221-14

The applicant body must also provide a detailed and explicit presentation of the organisational and operational arrangements that guarantee the regularity of its governance and management, as well as…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Training prior to exercising as citizen assessors

Article R2-14

…tive roles of judges and the public prosecutor, as well as defence and civil party lawyers; the ethical rules that apply to judges, in particular the obligations arising for them from the requirements…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Operation of the committee provided for in article 16-2

Article R15-14

…t, or convert the withdrawal into a suspension or reduce the duration of the suspension.If the applicant is not present or represented when the commission's decision is made, the decision shall be not…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XIV: Recourse for compensation available to certain victims of damage resulting from an offence

Article R50-14

…may have copies of the documents in the file issued by the secretariat at their own expense. In the case of reports of the offence or documents from criminal proceedings, the issue or sending of copie…

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