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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Apportionment and collection of certain taxes

Article L2331-11

Specific taxes due by inhabitants or owners by virtue of local laws and customs are apportioned by deliberation of the town council. These taxes are collected in the same way as direct taxes.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Operating grants without earmarking

Article L2335-2

Subject to the provisions of article L. 1524-4, exceptional grants may be awarded by ministerial order to communes in which abnormal circumstances lead to particular financial difficulties.These grant…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Operating grants without earmarking

Article L2335-2-1

A support fund is set up for municipalities affected by the territorial redeployment of armed forces. The communes of French Polynesia and New Caledonia are eligible for this fund. The distribution of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Operating grants without earmarking

Article L2335-3

…nced (1) by means of loans referred to in sub-section 3 of section 1 of the single chapter of title III of book III of the construction and housing code, losses of revenue for municipalities resulting…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Operating grants without earmarking

Article L2335-4

During the period in which the provisions designed to facilitate the progressive fiscal integration of merged communes apply, the State grants financial aid to the new commune. The amount of this aid…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: The Metropolitan Conference of Mayors

Article L3633-2

A coordination body is created between the Lyon metropolitan authority and the municipalities located on its territory, called the "metropolitan conference of mayors", within which any subjects of met…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: The Metropolitan Conference of Mayors

Article L3633-3

The metropolitan conference of mayors shall draw up, within nine months of each general renewal of the municipal councils, a draft metropolitan coherence pact between the metropolis and the municipali…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Regional and continuing vocational training funds.

Article L4332-1

The costs of vocational training are compensated in accordance with the procedure set out in Articles L. 1614-1, L. 1614-2 and L. 1614-3. A regional fund for continuing vocational training is created…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section VIII: The European Certificate of Succession

Article 1381-1

The European Certificate of Succession provided for in Chapter VI of Regulation (EU) No 650/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 on jurisdiction, applicable law, recogniti…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section V: The court-appointed estate agent.

Article 1357

The president of the judicial court or his delegate may, of his own motion or at the request of the heirs, summon the mandatary, request from him all information on the progress of his mission and iss…

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