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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Administrative penalties

Article L232-23-3-2

…nt of an administrative composition agreement concluded pursuant to the fourth paragraph of article L. 232-22, and the Sanction Commission may, under the conditions set out below, suspend the sanction…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L322-26-2-4

…nt Board of mutual insurance companies shall draw up a management report. The provisions of Article L. 322-4-3 of this Code apply.Mutual insurance companies shall appoint one or more statutory auditor…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L322-26-2-3

Notwithstanding the provisions of the first paragraph of II of article L. 823-19 of the French Commercial Code, the specialised committee referred to in this article may include a maximum of two membe…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Municipal police

Article L2212-2

The purpose of the municipal police is to ensure public order, safety, security and health. It includes in particular: 1° Anything that concerns the safety and convenience of passage in the streets, q…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Powers of the Territorial Council

Article LO6461-2

…ent to lay down, in the matters mentioned above, the rules relating to the investigation, recording and punishment of offences, without prejudice to article LO 6461-4.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Medical professions.

Article L4441-2

In New Caledonia and French Polynesia, the court of first instance of the Medical Council is constituted by a disciplinary chamber composed of full assessors and an equal number of alternates elected…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Punishment of public drunkenness.

Article L3341-2

…police custody, as long as he or she is not required to remain at the disposal of the investigators and has been informed of his or her rights as set out in article 61-1 of the Code of Criminal Proced…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Local semi-public companies

Article L1862-2

…on of services, the relationship between municipalities or their public establishments, on the one hand, and semi-public companies, on the other, is defined by a contract which provides, on pain of nu…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Provisions common to transferable securities

Article L228-3-1

…nformation concerning the owners of these securities either under the conditions set out in Article L. 228-2 for bearer shares, or under the conditions set out in the first paragraph of article L. 228…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter XI: Sharing capital gains on the sale of shares with company employees

Article L23-11-1

…ate capital gains sharing agreements. The capital gains sharing undertaking does not create a joint and several liability between a shareholder who has signed a capital gains sharing agreement and the…

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