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Showing 44614470 of 6833 articles for Art. L 313-7 · CGCT Art. L 2122-22

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 4: Common provisions (R).

Article R1617-16

The régisseurs are required to keep accounts, the form of which is laid down by the minister responsible for the budget and, where applicable, by the minister(s) concerned. These accounts shall show a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
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Article D1811-1

For the application of the provisions of Part One to the communes of French Polynesia:1° The references to the representative of the State in the department or collectivity, the prefect and the region…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Social action and health (R).

Article R1614-64

The appropriations entered in the State budget as part of the general decentralisation grant and intended to compensate for the expenditure of municipal hygiene offices which, on 1 January 1984, the d…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 4: School transport (R).

Article R1614-65

The right to compensation allocated, in respect of the transfer of responsibility for school transport, to the départements and to the authorities responsible for the organisation of urban transport a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Provisions relating to the first fraction (R).

Article R1614-80

Investments for the purpose of building, renovating, restructuring, extending or making accessible as provided for in articles L. 111-7 to L. 111-7-4 of the Construction and Housing Code, for the bene…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Provisions relating to the second fraction (R).

Article R1614-90

Investments for the purpose of building, renovating, restructuring, extending or making accessible as provided for in Title VI of the Construction and Housing Code for the benefit of main departmental…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 6: Public transport of regional interest

Article R1614-112

The total amount of compensation owed by the State to each region on the date of the transfer is set by joint order of the Minister for the Interior, the Minister for the Budget and the Minister for T…

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

Article R1615-6

I. - (repealed)II. - The allocations of the value added tax compensation fund made in the implementation of the automated processing of budgetary and accounting data provided for in II of Article L. 1…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Organisation of the régies (R).

Article R1617-1

Articles R. 1617-1 to R. 1617-18 set out the conditions for the organisation, operation and control of the revenue, advance and imprest accounts of local authorities and their public establishments, e…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Revenue authorities (R).

Article R1617-9

In accordance with the conditions laid down in the governing document, the administrator may send the debtor a request for payment.

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