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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 8: Payment to finance mobility services

Article L2333-67

…re taken prior to this date.However, communities of communes and agglomeration communities have the option of increasing the maximum rates mentioned in the previous paragraphs by 0.05%.This option is…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 9: Sociétés anonymes à participation ouvrière.

Article L225-261

The labour shares are the collective property of the salaried staff, formed into a labour cooperative company. This labour company must and exclusively includes all employees who have been linked to t…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Specific provisions relating to assignment subledgers

Article R342-3

When the commitments of the insurance undertaking or supplementary occupational pension fund in respect of an allocation sub-account are no longer represented in at least an equivalent manner by the a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Bonds issued by associations.

Article D213-19

I. - The information document contains all the information required by subscribers. It contains the following information concerning the issue: 1° The purpose of the issue ; 2° The decisions of the au…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Eligibility criteria.

Article R5422-2

I.-When the person concerned has taken up paid employment before having exhausted the rights to the insurance allowance previously granted to him/her, he/she benefits, in the event of loss of this new…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R6145-80

I.-The director general of the university hospital centre represents the institution on the supervisory boards of its subsidiaries and on the supervisory boards or, failing that, on the administrative…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 56-1

…trate conducting the search shall ensure that the investigations conducted do not infringe the free exercise of the profession of lawyer and that no document relating to the exercise of the rights of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L2141-11

…not precluded by a change in the gender recorded in the civil status register. II - The parents who exercise parental authority over a minor whose gametes or germ tissue are preserved in accordance wi…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: Obligations of the insurer and the insured.

Article L113-15-2

…6, the new insurer carries out the formalities necessary for the policyholder wishing to join it to exercise the right of cancellation under the conditions set out in the first paragraph of this artic…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Energy

Article L2224-37

Subject to a non-existent, insufficient or inadequate offer on their territory, municipalities may create and maintain charging infrastructures necessary for the use of electric or rechargeable hybrid…

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