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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Solidarity grant for the equipment of local authorities and their groupings affected by climatic or geological events

Article R1613-11

The order awarding the grant includes, for each of the operations, the information provided for in article R. 2334-26. The provisions of articles R. 2334-24 and R. 2334-28 to R. 2334-31, with the exce…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 211-118

The final award decision is taken after setting the amount of aid, determined after the opinion of the costing committee mentioned in Article…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Use

Article R3262-11

When an employee leaves the company, he gives the employer the meal vouchers in his possession. They are reimbursed for the amount of their contribution to the purchase of these vouchers.

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Subsection 2: Apprehension on court order

Article R222-11

In the absence of a writ of execution, an application may be made for an injunction to deliver or return a specific item of movable property. The application is made to the enforcement judge in the pl…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Provisions common to performers and phonogram producers

Article R214-11

…f three months in which to carry out his task, from the date of receipt of the request or, where applicable, from the date of receipt of the observations of the party or parties that the mediator has…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Information annexed to the pay slip

Article D3171-11

In the absence of any agreement to the contrary, employees are informed of the number of hours of compensatory rest and mandatory time off credited to them by means of a document attached to the pay s…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Relations between the armed forces health service and other players in the health system

Article R6147-112

Subject to the priority it must at all times give to satisfying the needs of the armed forces and taking into account the specific nature of its missions, the armed forces health service contributes t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
b: Calculation of total distributed income

Article 115 ter

Where a company having its registered office in France and liable to the tax provided for in Chapter II of this Title carries on business in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Mayotte, New Caledonia, French Po…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Acquisition of French nationality by birth and residence in France

Article 21-11

A minor child born in France to foreign parents may, from the age of sixteen, claim French nationality by declaration, under the conditions set out in articles 26 et seq if, at the time of his declara…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter VIII: Adoption

Article 1175-1

Within fifteen days of the date on which it has become final, at the request of the public prosecutor: 1° The decision pronouncing the full adoption is transcribed into the civil status registers of t…

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