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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: General provisions

Article R1251-13

In the event of the takeover or merger of temporary employment undertakings, the amount of the guarantee of the undertaking thus formed may not be less than the amount of the combined guarantees of th…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
a: Micro-enterprise scheme

Article 50-0

1. For the taxation of their profits, companies whose turnover excluding tax, adjusted if necessary in proportion to the operating time during the reference year, does not exceed, in the previous cale…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Scope of free transfer duties

Article 757 A

The capital payments provided for by Article 373-2-3 of the French Civil Code are only subject to transfer duties for the fraction exceeding €2,700 per year remaining until the beneficiary reaches maj…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Creation procedure

Article L2113-2

A new commune may be created in place of contiguous communes:1° Either at the request of all the municipal councils;2° Or at the request of at least two-thirds of the municipal councils of the commune…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Creation procedure

Article L2113-5

I. - In the event of the creation of a new commune grouping together all the communes that are members of one or more public establishments of inter-communal cooperation with its own tax status, the d…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Creation procedure

Article L2113-3

Where the request is not the subject of concordant deliberations by the municipal councils of all the municipalities concerned but is made under the majority conditions provided for in Article L. 2113…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Creation procedure

Article L2113-4

When the communes concerned by a request to create a new commune are not located in the same département or region, the decision to create the commune may only be taken after the territorial boundarie…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Creation procedure

Article L2113-6

I. - In the absence of agreement by the municipal councils on the name of the new commune through concordant deliberations taken pursuant to Article L. 2113-2, the State representative in the départem…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Creation procedure

Article L2113-7

I. - Until the next renewal following the creation of the new commune, the municipal council is composed:1° Of all the current members of the municipal councils of the former communes, if the municipa…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Creation procedure

Article L2113-8-2

For the application of 2° of II of Article L. 2121-1, until the first renewal of the municipal council following the creation of the new commune, the order of municipal councillors is established acco…

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