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Showing 381390 of 28175 articles for Art. Loi 1975-1334 du 31-12-1975

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Transferred services.

Article R4422-31

Sont transférés à la collectivité de Corse, en application du deuxième alinéa de l'article L. 4422-43 :1° The departments or parts of departments responsible, within the regional directorate of equipm…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 5: Formation of the credit agreement

Article L313-31

…o in Article L. 313-24 has been issued, the lender shall inform the borrower, on paper or any other durable medium, of its decision to accept or reject the offer and, where applicable, send the borrow…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Rules governing the devolution of surnames and customary names

Article 311-21

When a child's filiation is established with regard to both parents no later than the day of the child's birth declaration or subsequently but simultaneously, the parents choose the surname to which t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 6: Accounting and financial organisation of the departmental or territorial fire and rescue service (R)

Article R1424-31

…ents for inter-communal cooperation with jurisdiction over fire and rescue, of expenditure incurred during their interventions, in application of directives from the departmental or territorial servic…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Provisions applicable to the judicial supervision of dangerous persons convicted of a felony or misdemeanour

Article D147-31

The crimes and offences for which socio-judicial supervision is incurred and which are liable, in accordance with the provisions of articles 723-29 to 723-37, to give rise to judicial supervision of a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Investment certificates.

Article L228-31

…Article. The price referred to in the previous paragraph is determined in accordance with the procedures set out in 2° of article 283-1-1 of law no. 66-537 of 24 July 1966 on commercial companies (1)…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Provisions applicable to the judicial supervision of dangerous persons convicted of a felony or misdemeanour

Article D147-31-1

Persons covered by the provisions of article D. 147-31 may not be placed under judicial supervision: 1° If they have been sentenced to socio-judicial supervision, unless this sentence was handed down…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Central bodies

Article L511-31

The central bodies represent the credit institutions and finance companies affiliated to them in their dealings with the Banque de France and the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution. They…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Reorganisation and winding-up measures for credit institutions and investment firms

Article L613-31-7

By way of derogation from the provisions of Article L. 613-31-3 and II of Article L. 613-31-6, the provisions of the law of the Member State in which the winding-up proceedings have been opened relati…

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

Article D4425-31

…rately, of the Corsican local authority, as it results from the last known census on the date of production of the budget documents; b) Real operating expenditure refers to all expenditure for the fin…

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