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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Halls, markets and public weights

Article L2224-18

The town council's decisions concerning the creation, transfer or abolition of municipal market halls or markets are taken after consultation with the professional organisations concerned, which have…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Professional secrecy, accounting and statutory auditing

Article L526-37

When preparing their accounts in consolidated form, electronic money institutions shall apply the rules defined by regulation of the Autorité des normes comptables (French Accounting Standards Authori…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Supplementary provisions.

Article L3121-37

In companies where there is no trade union representative, the employer may replace all or part of the payment for overtime, as well as any additional pay, with an equivalent compensatory rest period,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IIIa: Dental assistants

Article L4393-9

The profession of dental assistant may be practised by holders of the French training qualification entitling them to practise this profession. The terms and conditions of the training, in particular…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Communal sections with separate assets

Article L2544-5

Before any decision by the representative of the State in the département on the deliberations of the municipal council relating to the objects designated in article L. 2544-4, or to the alienation or…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Responsibilities

Article L3444-1

The departmental councils of the overseas departments are consulted on draft laws, ordinances or decrees containing provisions for adapting the legislative regime and administrative organisation of th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Pricing and approval.

Article L5123-3

The list referred to in article L. 5123-2 is proposed by a commission of the Haute Autorité de santé referred to in article L. 161-37 of the Social Security Code, the composition and operation of whic…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Public territorial establishments

Article L5219-8

Par dérogation à l'article L. 5217-12, the Greater Paris metropolitan area benefits from a global operating grant equal to the sum of the following two components:1° An inter-municipality grant, calcu…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Appeals against the decision of the departmental committee.

Article L752-23

One month before the date on which the project is due to open to the public, the beneficiary must send the representative of the State in the department, the mayor and the chairman of the public estab…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 8: Despecialisation.

Article L145-55

At any time and until the expiry of a period of fifteen days from the date on which the decision has become res judicata, the tenant who has made a request in accordance with articles L. 145-47, L. 14…

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