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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Guarantees granted to holders of mandates at the Assembly of French Guyana

Article L7125-5

The time of absence provided for in articles L. 7125-1 et L. 7125-2 is treated as an actual period of work for the purposes of determining the period of paid leave as well as with regard to all rights…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Guarantees granted to holders of offices in the Martinique Assembly and the Executive Council

Article L7227-5

The time of absence provided for in articles L. 7227-1 et L. 7227-2 is treated as an actual period of work for the purposes of determining the period of paid leave as well as with regard to all rights…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Financial assistance for employees, company directors or managers.

Article L7233-5

The provisions of article L. 7233-4 also apply to the head of the company or, if the company is a legal entity, to its chairman, its managing director, its deputy managing director(s), its managers or…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Enforcement of the vendor's lien and pledge of the business and purging of registered debts.

Article L143-5

Creditors registered on a business may also, even under private deeds, have the sale of the business ordered, eight days after a summons to pay made to the debtor and the third party holder, if any, h…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Taxes specific to resorts

Article L2333-57

I. - (Repealed)II. - (Repealed)III. - (Repealed)IV. - Proceeds from gaming carried out in casinos governed by Article L. 321-3 of the Internal Security Code, except where they are registered in Wallis…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Advertising and general information

Article L313-5

It is forbidden in all advertising and commercial communication to: 1° Equate monthly repayments with rent or refer, for the calculation of instalments, to social benefits that are not provided throug…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: POWERS

Article L3641-5

The State may delegate, by agreement, some of its powers to Metropolitan Lyon, under the conditions set out in Article L. 301-5-1 of the Code de la construction et de l'habitation (Construction and Ho…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Mobility vouchers

Article L3261-5

The payment referred to in articles L. 3261-3 and L. 3261-3-1 may take the form of a specific, dematerialised, prepaid payment solution called a "titre-mobilité". These vouchers are issued by a specia…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Selection of the tender offering the best overall economic advantage

Article L3124-5

The concession contract is awarded to the bidder who has submitted the best offer with regard to the overall economic advantage for the conceding authority on the basis of several objective, precise c…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Departmental and territorial fire and rescue services

Article D1424-32-2

The provisions of article D. 3311-4 with the exception of the sixth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth paragraphs, the articles D. 3311-5, D. 3321-1 and D. 3321-2, D. 3332-3 et D. 3342…

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