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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exclusion of non-specialised cinemas

Article D311-12

…articles L. 411-1 to L. 415-1.

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 2: Classification.

Article D311-9

…lay a sign on their frontage in accordance with a model drawn up by the body referred to in article L. 141-2 and approved by order of the Minister responsible for tourism.

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Section 2: Procedure

Article R311-9

The registered creditors and the creditors listed in article 2377 and in 3° of article 2402 may, as from the publication of the summons for seizure and at any time during the proceedings, request the…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 2: Classification.

Article D311-5

…cording to the criteria set out in a classification table drawn up by the body mentioned in article L. 141-2 and approved by order of the Minister responsible for tourism. The classification table is…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 2: Classification.

Article D311-4

A tourist hotel is a classified commercial accommodation establishment that offers furnished rooms or flats for rent to visiting customers who stay for a day, a week or a month, but who, apart from ex…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 1: Relations between lessors and lessees of buildings used for hotels.

Article D311-2

…ave any interest in the ownership of buildings used as hotels. Owner members must not operate a hotel.At the same time as each full member, the Prefect appoints a deputy to replace him/her if he/she i…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1: Allocation of financial aid

Article D311-2

Automatic financial aid from the Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée is awarded automatically to persons who meet the conditions for receiving it.It gives rise to:1° Either the calculation…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Exclusion of specialised cinemas

Article D311-7

The President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée is notified of the decision to specialise one or more cinemas.Unless the President objects on the grounds of non-compliance with the…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Exclusion of works or documents of a pornographic nature or inciting to violence

Article D311-4

Financial assistance from the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée may not be granted for or in respect of cinematographic, audiovisual or multimedia works or documents of a pornographic nat…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1: Allocation of financial aid

Article D311-1

The general conditions for granting financial aid are set by deliberation of the Board of Directors of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée in a consolidated document known as the "gener…

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