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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Miscellaneous provisions

Article L1311-16

When, in the woods and forests of collectivities subject to the forestry regime, pursuant to Book I of the Forestry Code, felling or felling products are sold that group together in the same lot woods…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Intervention procedures

Article L1523-1

Local semi-public companies may intervene on behalf of persons who do not participate in their capital. For operations other than the provision of services, this intervention is subject to the conditi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L1431-1

Territorial authorities and their groupings may set up, with the State and national public establishments, a public cultural cooperation establishment responsible for the creation and management of a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: LOCAL PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS FOR EDUCATIONAL COOPERATION

Article L1441-1

A municipality or a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation may set up, with the State, a local public establishment for educational cooperation responsible for mobilising and coordinatin…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Purpose

Article L1521-1

Municipalities, départements, regions and their groupings may, within the scope of the powers conferred on them by law, set up local semi-public companies which associate them with one or more private…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VI: Audiovisual communication

Article L1426-1

Local authorities or their groupings may, under the conditions laid down in the loi n° 86-1067 du 30 septembre 1986 relative à la liberté de communication, éditer un service de télévision destiné aux…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VII : Station development

Article L1427-1

When one or more premises are left vacant following the closure or relocation of a station, the mayor or the president of the local authority of which the municipality is a member may request any info…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L1511-1

The Regional Council shall draw up a report on the aid and aid schemes implemented in its territory during the calendar year, under the conditions laid down in this chapter, by the territorial authori…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of budgets

Article L1612-15

The only compulsory expenditure for local authorities is that required to pay debts due and expenditure for which the law has expressly so decided. The regional audit chamber to which a matter has bee…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of budgets

Article L1612-16

If the mayor, the president of the departmental council or the president of the regional council, as the case may be, fails to pay a compulsory expenditure within one month of being given formal notic…

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