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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 1: Administrative expulsion decisions

Article L722-3

The administrative authority may initiate the procedure for automatic enforcement of the decision imposing an obligation to leave French territory as soon as the period for voluntary departure has exp…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Organisation of detention facilities

Article L744-3

The conditions of accessibility adapted to places of detention are specified by decree in the Council of State.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Special delegation

Article L2121-38

The powers of the special delegation are limited to acts of purely conservatory and urgent administration. Under no circumstances is it permitted to commit municipal finances beyond the available reso…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Special delegation

Article L2121-39

The functions of the special delegation instituted pursuant to

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

Article L2122-3

When any obstacle whatsoever, or remoteness, makes communications between the chief town and a fraction of a commune difficult, dangerous or temporarily impossible, a post of special deputy may be ins…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Honorary office of mayors, deputy mayors and deputy mayors

Article L2122-35

…for mayors, deputy mayors and deputy mayors is not accompanied by any financial benefit chargeable to the municipal budget.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Special delegation

Article L2121-37

…set at three in communes where the population does not exceed 35,000. This number may be increased to seven in communes with a higher population.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Special delegation

Article L2121-35

In the event of the dissolution of a municipal council or the resignation of all its serving members, or in the event of the final annulment of the election of all its members, or where a municipal co…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Special delegation

Article L2121-36

…ulment of the elections, the acceptance of the resignation or the declaration that it is impossible to form the municipal council. The special delegation elects its chairman and, if applicable, its vi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Abolition of communes

Article L2114-3

…ed out in application of this chapter, only the municipal councils of the suppressed communes are automatically dissolved. The municipal councils of the attached communes remain in office.

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