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Showing 771780 of 6833 articles for Art. L 313-7 · CGCT Art. L 2122-22

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General principles

Article L1611-4

Any association, work or business that has received a subsidy may be subject to control by the delegates of the authority that granted it.All groups, associations, works or private businesses that hav…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General principles

Article L1611-9

For any exceptional investment operation the amount of which exceeds a threshold set by decree according to the category and population of the local authority or establishment, the executive of a loca…

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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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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L1614-3

The amount of expenditure resulting from increases and decreases in charges is established for each local authority by joint order of the Minister for the Interior and the Minister for the Budget, fol…

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

Article L1612-1

In the event that the budget of a territorial authority has not been adopted before 1 January of the financial year to which it applies, the executive of the territorial authority is entitled, until t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Overall operating grant

Article L1613-5

Local authorities and establishments that make civil servants available to trade union organisations, under the conditions set out in article 100 of law no. 84-53 of 26 January 1984 on the statutory p…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L1614-2

…nsferred powers are subject to an assessment prior to the transfer of said powers. Any new burden falling on territorial authorities as a result of the State modifying, by regulation, the rules relati…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Special provisions for certain transfers

Article L1614-9

The appropriations previously entered in the State budget for the establishment and implementation of town planning documents and easements and which correspond to the transferred powers are the subje…

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

Article L1615-4

When a local authority, public establishment or grouping uses a capital asset for the purposes of an activity that ceases to be subject to value added tax, it may obtain a payment from the Value Added…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: SEMI-PUBLIC COMPANIES WITH A SINGLE OPERATION

Article L1541-3

I. - In the event of the transformation, merger or attachment of the shareholding territorial authority of a single-operating semi-public company within another territorial authority or grouping of te…

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