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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Financial and accounting provisions

Article R823-18

Revenue and imprest accounts may be set up in the establishment under the conditions laid down in the decree no. 2019-798 of 26 July 2019 on the revenue and imprest accounts of public bodies.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax status.

Article R5211-5-1

The provisions of articles R. 2123-11-1 to R. 2123-11-6 and the articles R. 2123-22-1-A to R. 2123-22-1-D are applicable to public establishments of inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax stat…

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

Article D2411-4

The request is addressed: 1° To the chairman of the union commission in the cases provided for in articles L. 2411-4, L. 2411-6 and in the sixth paragraph of article L. 2412-1 ; 2° To the mayor of the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
6°: Directory of notaries, bailiffs, court clerks, secretaries, auctioneers, commercial brokers, insurance brokers and other intermediaries

Article 867

I. - Notaries, bailiffs, clerks and secretaries of central administrations shall keep columnar directories, on which they shall enter, day by day, and in order of number, namely:1° Notaries, all deeds…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 3: Financial and accounting provisions

Article R822-14

The Director of the Institut National de la Consommation may set up revenue and expenditure imprest accounts under the conditions set out in the decree no. 2019-798 of 26 July 2019 relating to revenue…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE V: Provisions applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands.

Article R950-1

Subject to the adaptations provided for in the following chapters, the following provisions of the Code shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands:1° The provisions of Book I mentioned in the left-h…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 5: Financial provisions.

Article L5214-23

The revenues of the budget of the communauté de communes include:1° The tax resources mentioned in II or, where applicable, I of Article 1379-0 bis of the General Tax Code, as well as those mentioned…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Financial and accounting system

Article R7345-19

The institution's Chief Executive Officer may set up revenue and imprest accounts under the conditions set out in Decree no. 2019-798 of 26 July 2019 on the revenue and imprest accounts of public bodi…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Other administrative police measures

Article L5145-9

I.-Where a breach of the provisions of Article 104 of Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of 11 December 2018 or of the provisions adopted for the application of III of Article L. 5143-2 is established, the admini…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Financial instruments

Article L743-1

I.-The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in French Polynesia, subject to the provisions of II, in the wording indicated in the right-hand…

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