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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Declaration of sports equipment

Article R312-4

The declarations provided for in article R. 312-3 must identify : 1° In all cases, the sports facility, its use and its characteristics, as well as its owner and, where applicable, its operator; 2° In…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article L214-50

…ité des marchés financiers. Notwithstanding the provisions of the first paragraph of article L. 123-22 of the Commercial Code, the accounts of an undertaking for collective investment in transferable…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Prevention of acts of terrorism

Article 706-25-15

The duties of specialist assistant for the prevention of acts of terrorism with the public prosecutor's office may be carried out by category A or B civil servants as well as persons holding, in subje…

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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 706-3

…k incapacity equal to or greater than one month;-or are provided for and punishable by the articles 222-22 à 222-30, 224-1 A to 224-1 C, 225-4-1 to 225-4-5, 225-5 to 225-10, 225-14-1 and 225-14-2 and…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Managing Director

Article R1232-8

…responsible for the execution of the agreement mentioned in III of Article 2 of Law no. 2019-753 of 22 July 2019 creating a National Agency for Territorial Cohesion; At the end of each calendar year,…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: National gendarmerie units

Article R15-23

…départementale; 2° Les sections d'appui judiciaire autres que celles mentionnées à l'article R. 15-22; 3° Gendarmerie motorway platoons and motorised platoons; 4° Gendarmerie air force sections or de…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Inter-municipal cooperation

Article R5832-1

…r half is provided by the other communes of Mayotte. "2° In the second paragraph of Article R. 5211-22, the words: "and the regional council" and the words: "and the regional councils" are deleted; 3°…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Disciplinary safeguards

Article R6153-35

…to the teaching and hospital staff of hospitals and university centres, or by decree no. 65-803 of 22 September 1965 relating to the status of the special staff of the dental care, teaching and resea…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2k: Companies located in priority development zones

Article 44 septdecies

…the General Local Authorities Code in the version in force on the date of publication of the loi n° 2018-1317 du 28 décembre 2018 de finances pour 2019.The classification of communes as priority devel…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Applications

Article 1077

…laim may be based on only one of the cases provided for in the third to sixth paragraphs of Article 229 of the Civil Code. Any claim made in the alternative in any other case is inadmissible. Except f…

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