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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Organisation of hospitals and universities.

Article L6142-1

Hospitals and university centres are health care centres where, with respect for patients, public medical, pharmaceutical and post-graduate teaching is organised, as well as, without prejudice to the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Financial organisation.

Article L6145-15

The obligations imposed on public health institutions may not prejudice the rights and obligations resulting from foundations made for their benefit.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Financial organisation.

Article L6145-11

Public health establishments may always exercise their rights of recourse, where applicable, against hospitalised patients, their debtors and the persons designated by articles 205, 206, 207 and 212 o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Financial organisation.

Article L6145-17

Where necessary, regulatory measures shall determine the procedures for applying the provisions of this chapter. Unless otherwise provided, they shall be adopted by decree of the Conseil d'Etat.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Financial organisation.

Article L6145-12

Household effects brought by persons who have died in public health establishments after having been treated there free of charge, belong to the said public health establishments to the exclusion of t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Financial organisation.

Article L6145-16

The accounts of public health institutions defined by decree are certified. The methods of certification, by an auditor or by the Cour des Comptes (Court of Auditors), are laid down by regulation.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Internal organisation.

Article L6146-11

Unless otherwise provided, the terms and conditions for the application of this chapter shall be determined by decree in the Conseil d'Etat.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Financial organisation.

Article L6145-10

When, as a result of a change in circumstances, the performance of the conditions and obligations attached to a donation or legacy made to a public health institution becomes either extremely difficul…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Terms and conditions of implementation

Article L6211-17

When a biological sample is taken by a medical auxiliary, the medical biologist determines the applicable procedures beforehand.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Terms and conditions of implementation

Article L6211-15

When the test sample is taken outside the laboratory and in a health establishment to which the laboratory belongs, and the health professional who takes the sample does not belong to the laboratory b…

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