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Showing 45214530 of 56769 articles for Art. L 144-10 · C. civ. Art. 1709 · Cass. com. 11 May 1971 · Cass. com. 23 March 1999 n° 97-15.000

French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Section 2: Conversion to attachment for payment

Article R523-10

Where necessary, the provisions of articles…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Vehicles used for the transport of corpses before coffining (R).

Article D2223-113

I.-Any person offering for sale a vehicle for transporting a corpse before burial, an insulated body or a cooling system likely to be installed in such a vehicle is required to have a model of the ser…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Presentation and determination of the statement of estimates of revenue and expenditure

Article R6145-11

The budget meets the following conditions: 1° Each of the projected profit and loss accounts is presented in balance; however, the main projected profit and loss account and the projected profit and l…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Identification and lists of members of the medical professions.

Article D4113-115

For doctors, dental surgeons and midwives required to be registered on the roll of the Association, the Departmental Council of the Association in whose area of jurisdiction their place of professiona…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Technical and financial profit-sharing

Article A132-10

The minimum amount of participation in the technical and financial profits of undertakings carrying out the operations referred to in 1° of Article L. 310-1 and of supplementary professional retiremen…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 2: Agence de développement touristique de la France.

Article D141-11

The Commission for commercial tourist accommodation referred to in article L. 141-2 is responsible for issuing an opinion on the draft classification tables for hotels, tourist residences, furnished t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Establishments, services or organisations without an in-house pharmacy

Article R5126-112

Dispensing pharmacists and persons legally authorised to replace, assist or second them may dispense within the establishments mentioned in 3° of article R. 5126-1 the medicinal products, products or…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3°: Professional economic development committees

Article 1039 A

Subject to the provisions of article 1020, transfers made to a professional economic development committee governed by the loi n° 78-654 du 22 juin 1978, of assets of any kind belonging to an organisa…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Presentation of the diploma

Article A212-104

…g for the specific part; When preparation for the examination is organised as part of a training cycle covered by an agreement between the training body or establishment or the university and the Regi…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Penalty procedure

Article R423-10

The matter is referred to the Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations by means of a report submitted by the rapporteur. The documents accompanying the report include the minutes provided for in arti…

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