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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VII: Metropolitan France

Article L5217-19

I. - The services or parts of services of the communes that participate in the exercise of the competences mentioned in I of Article L. 5217-2 are transferred to the metropolitan authority, in accorda…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Administrative police measures

Article L612-33

…he person concerned in order to closely monitor his situation; 3° Temporarily limit or prohibit the exercise of certain operations or activities by this person, including the acceptance of premiums or…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 6: Right of withdrawal applicable to distance and off-premises contracts

Article L221-18

The consumer has a period of fourteen days in which to exercise his right of withdrawal from a contract concluded at a distance, following canvassing by telephone or off-premises, without having to gi…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: The tutor

Article 405

…ersons concerned and the extent of the assets to be administered, appoint several tutors to jointly exercise the protective measure. Each tutor is deemed, with regard to third parties, to have receive…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-21

…rpose is the study and protection of the heritage defined in Article L. 1 of the Heritage Code, may exercise the rights granted to civil parties in respect of the offences punishable under Articles 31…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter II: Rights of preferred film production creditors

Article L312-4

The rights of preferential creditors remain and may be exercised freely when the production company is the subject of one of the procedures provided for in Book VI of the Commercial Code, without the…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Quasi-regulation

Article L2511-2

…entity, with: 1° Either the contracting authority which controls it, including when such control is exercised jointly with other contracting authorities under the conditions laid down in Article L. 25…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 5: Securities giving access to the capital or giving entitlement to the allotment of debt securities

Article L228-105

…o a share of the share capital are incorporated in or attached to bonds, the right of disclosure is exercised by the representatives of the bondholders, in accordance with article L. 228-55. After det…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Receivership.

Article L631-3

The receivership procedure is also applicable to the persons mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 631-2 after the cessation of their professional activity if all or part of their liabilities…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IV: Judicial liquidation and professional recovery.

Article L640-3

Court-ordered liquidation proceedings are also open to the persons mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 640-2 after the cessation of their professional activity, if all or part of their liab…

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