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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Subsection 1: Amicable sale

Article R221-32

The price of the sale is paid into the hands of the distraining creditor's bailiff, who issues a receipt to which is attached an extract of the entries in the register referred to in article R. 521-1…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Subsection 1: Amicable sale

Article R221-30

The debtor has one month from notification of the seizure to sell the seized assets himself. The seized assets remain unavailable under the responsibility of the custodian. Under no circumstances may…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L2122-3

When any obstacle whatsoever, or remoteness, makes communications between the chief town and a fraction of a commune difficult, dangerous or temporarily impossible, a post of special deputy may be ins…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L2122-5-2

The offices of mayor, deputy mayor, deputy mayor and deputy deputy mayor are incompatible with those of a serving member of the armed forces.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L2122-5

Agency employees involved in municipal accounting, the assessment, collection or control of all taxes and duties may not be mayors or deputy mayors, nor may they perform their duties, even temporarily…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L2122-2

The municipal council determines the number of deputy mayors, but this number may not exceed 30% of the legal number of members of the municipal council.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L2122-6

The mayor's salaried employees may not be deputy mayors if this salaried activity is directly linked to the exercise of the mayor's mandate.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L2122-4

The Town Council elects the mayor and deputy mayors from among its members by secret ballot. No person may be elected mayor who is not at least eighteen years of age. The office of mayor is incompatib…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions

Article R3252-2

The proportion in which sums due by way of remuneration may be seized or assigned, pursuant to article L. 3252-2, is set as follows:1° One-twentieth, on the portion less than or equal to €4,170 ;2° On…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions

Article R3252-9

Individual records shall be kept at the registry of each judicial court, mentioning all acts of any kind, decisions and formalities to which the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter gives ris…

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