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

Article L1611-2-1

…ks entrusted to mayors as agents of the State, the municipalities are responsible for: 1° Receiving and entering applications for national identity cards and passports and issuing these documents to t…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Minority rights

Article 388-1-2

…her legal administrator(s), to perform alone the acts of administration necessary for the creation and management of an individual limited liability company or a single-member company. Acts of dispos…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L1521-2-1

For the application of this part in French Guyana and Martinique, and in the absence of any specific mention of these collectivities: 1° The powers devolved to the prefect, in the region or in the dep…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Drinking water.

Article L1321-2-1

…upplied with water intended for human consumption by abstraction works owned by private individuals and not covered by a public service delegation, the State representative in the department may, at t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Health policy.

Article L1411-1-2

Health promotion initiatives are based on concerted action and the coordination of all public policies to encourage both the development of individual skills and the creation of physical, social and e…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L131-1-2

…ive investment undertakings or assets included in the list referred to in the same article L. 131-1 and which comply with at least one of the following conditions: 1° Between 5% and 10% of the units a…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L132-23-1

The insurance company has a period of fifteen days, after receiving notice of the death and becoming aware of the beneficiary's details, or at the end of the term of the contract, to ask the beneficia…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L132-21-1

For all life insurance policies with a surrender or transfer value and for all capitalisation policies, the surrender or transfer value, where applicable, is equal to the difference between the curren…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L310-1-2

…nce undertaking, which bears insurance risks ceded to it by an insurance or reinsurance undertaking and which fully finances the exposure to these risks by issuing units, shares, debt securities or an…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L310-2-1

For the purposes of this Code, States that are parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area but are not members of the European Union are treated in the same way as Member States of the Euro…

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