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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Merger of communes.

Article D2573-4

The articles D. 2113-1 to D. 2113-12 and R. 2113-16 to R. 2113-22 are applicable to the communes of French Polynesia.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Revenue

Article R3543-4

The Department of Mayotte receives the allocation provided for in Article R. 3334-5. It also receives an allocation taken from the appropriations allocated to the increase mentioned in article R. 3334…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Expenditure

Article D3664-4

Programme authorisations and commitment authorisations for unforeseen expenditure constitute chapters, respectively of the investment section and the operating section of budgets voted by nature and b…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V: Accounting

Article D3665-4

No expenditure made on behalf of the Metropole of Lyon may be paid unless it has first been mandated by the President of the Council of the Metropole from a duly opened appropriation.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Continuing vocational training for young people under the age of twenty-six (R).

Article R4332-4

For the determination of expenditure incurred by the State in 1993 in respect of training initiatives intended for young people under the age of twenty-six with a view to enabling them to acquire a qu…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Research and technological development

Article R4252-4

At the request of the committee, the heads of the State's regional services and the regional academic delegate for research and innovation or, in French Guyana, the regional delegate for research and…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Economic and Social Councils (R).

Article R4432-4

The tables set out in Annex XIV to this code determine for each region the bodies represented on the regional economic, social and environmental council, as well as the number and methods of appointme…

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

Article D5334-4

The mayors who are members of the consultative commission and their alternates are appointed by the prefect on the recommendation of the departmental association of mayors or, in the absence of a depa…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Exercise by a taxpayer or voter of shares belonging to the community

Article D6243-4

The administrative court or the Conseil d'Etat may, if they grant the authorisation, make its effect subject to the prior deposit of the costs of the proceedings. In this case, they shall set the amou…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Local referendum

Article D6232-4

The maximum number of sites reserved for election posters, apart from those set up next to polling stations, is set, in Saint-Barthélemy, at eleven.

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