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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V : Value added tax compensation fund

Article L1615-10

Specific State subsidies calculated on a pre-tax amount are not deducted from actual investment expenditure taken into account for the calculation of allocations from the Value Added Tax Compensation…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VII: Provisions relating to local authority accountants

Article L1617-1

The accounting officer of the commune, department or region is a State public accounting officer with the status of principal accounting officer. He is appointed by the minister responsible for the bu…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Name.

Article L2111-1

A commune's name change is decided by decree, at the request of the municipal council and after consultation with the departmental council. However, name changes that are the consequence of a change i…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 2: National Sports Agency

Article L112-12

In the regions, the Corsican collectivity, the collectivities governed by articles 73 and 74 of the Constitution and in New Caledonia, the State representative is the agency's territorial delegate und…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Relations between sports associations and companies

Article L122-18

Where a sports association is subject to the provisions of Book VI of the Commercial Code relating to business difficulties, the sports company formed by it is jointly and severally liable to implemen…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 4: Criminal provisions

Article L312-14

Organising a public sporting event in a non-approved venue or in breach of the requirements imposed by the approval is punishable by two years' imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros.

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French Sports CodeIn force
Chapter I: Insurance obligation

Article L321-1

Sports associations, companies and federations take out insurance to cover their own civil liability, that of their salaried or volunteer employees and that of sports users. Licence holders and partic…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Single chapter

Article L241-10

This Title applies to tests organised with a view to the selection and genetic improvement of equidae aged six years and under.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: The monetary unit

Article L111-1

France's currency is the euro. One euro is divided into one hundred centimes.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Creation and form of cheque

Article L131-13

The drawer guarantees payment. Any clause by which the drawer exonerates himself from this guarantee shall be deemed unwritten.

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