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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Compensation body

Article L424-5

When the compensation body has reimbursed the sums incurred by its counterparts in the other States party to the European Economic Area, it is then subrogated to the rights of the injured party and th…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Compensation body

Article L424-2

…ompensation to the insurer of the vehicle whose use caused the accident or to its claims representative, the insurer or its claims representative has not given a reasoned reply to the matters raised i…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Compensation body

Article L424-3

…e to intervene if, within this two-month period, the insurance undertaking or its claims representative has given a reasoned response to the claim. The compensation body's offer is subsidiary. It pays…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Miscellaneous provisions

Article L424-1

Financial penalties are recovered in the same way as State debts other than taxes and property. The proceeds are paid to the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VII: LOCAL AUTHORITY FINANCES

Article L6474-1

The President of the Territorial Council shall keep accounts of the commitment of expenditure under the conditions laid down by regulation.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VII: LOCAL AUTHORITY FINANCES

Article L6474-2

The local authority's accounting officer is solely responsible for carrying out, subject to the controls for which he is responsible, the collection of revenue and the payment of the local authority's…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter IIa: Property wealth tax

Article 978

…admitted to trading on a French or foreign regulated market made to the benefit of: 1° Public or private, non-profit, general interest research, higher education or artistic education establishments…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Judicial autopsies

Article 230-30

When the biological samples taken during a judicial autopsy are no longer necessary to establish the truth, the competent judicial authority may order their destruction. Destruction is carried out in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Judicial autopsies

Article 230-29

…e body is restored as well as possible before it is handed over to the deceased's next of kin. Relatives of the deceased who so wish may not be refused access to the body before it is buried, except f…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Judicial autopsies

Article 230-31

The procedures for applying the provisions of this chapter shall be specified by decree in the Conseil d'Etat.

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