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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Budgets and accounts

Article L5217-10-12

…budget shows a surplus after taking over the results, the local authority may transfer this surplus to the operating section in the cases and conditions defined by decree.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Budgets and accounts

Article L5217-10-10

The Chairman of the Metropolitan Council presents the administrative account to the Metropolitan Council each year, which debates it under the chairmanship of one of its members.The Chairman of the Me…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Budgets and accounts

Article L5217-10-14

Appendices to the budget documents include:1° Summary data on the financial situation of the metropolitan authority;2° A list of assistance granted by the metropolitan authority in the form of benefit…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Budgets and accounts

Article L5217-10-11

The surplus from the operating section for the financial year just ended, together with the previous result carried forward, is allocated in full at the earliest budgetary decision following the vote…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Coordination of powers between the European Public Prosecutor, the Deputy European Public Prosecutors and the French judicial authority

Article 696-135

Where, in the cases referred to in Article 25(6) of the aforementioned Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 of 12 October 2017, the public prosecutor to whom the investigation has been referred refuses t…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter V: Distribution of funds outside of enforcement proceedings.

Article 1281-6

…distribution summons the parties by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, with a view to an attempt at conciliation which must take place within one month of the first dispute. The summo…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Calculation of time limits.

Article 647-1

…a, in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in New Caledonia and in the French Southern and Antarctic Territories and abroad is, with regard to the person who serves it, the date of dispatch of the document…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Judgments of the Cour de cassation

Article 612-1

…our de cassation may order that the annulment it pronounces shall have effect in respect of parties to the proceedings who have not lodged an appeal. A convicted person who has not lodged an appeal an…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Judgments of the Cour de cassation

Article 618-1

…y the person prosecuted or by the civil party has been dismissed, the court may order the applicant to pay to the other party the sum it determines, in respect of costs not paid by the State and incur…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Examination of appeals and hearings

Article 603-1

The judgments of the Court of Cassation in criminal cases shall mention the names of the president, the rapporteur, the other judges who delivered them, the Advocate General and the lawyers who appear…

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