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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Accounting

Article D72-104-5

No expenditure incurred on behalf of the local authority may be paid unless it has first been authorised by the local authority's chairman against a duly appropriated credit line..

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Accounting

Article D72-104-7

The mandate for payment must contain all the particulars of name and capacity necessary to enable the accounting officer to recognise the identity of the creditor.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Accounting

Article D72-104-2

The appropriations allocated to expenditure for each financial year may not be used to pay expenditure for another financial year.However, expenditure committed but not mandated at the close of the fi…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 3: Deposit of a sum by the transport company that has disembarked a foreign national without the required documents

Article R821-12

The accounting officer of the Directorate General of Public Finance mentioned in article R. 821-8 shall return all or part of the sum deposited within one month of the date of receipt by his departmen…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Organisation and supervision of the profession.

Article L821-14

The High Council, on its own initiative or at the request of the Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice, the Autorité des marchés financiers, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution or…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Mandatory measures and conditions

Article D533

The sentenced person subject to conditional release must undergo the supervision measures provided for by article 132-44 of the Penal Code.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Mandatory measures and conditions

Article D534

The sentence enforcement judge may authorise the parolee to change residence, after consulting the sentence enforcement judge of the jurisdiction in which the convicted person intends to settle and, w…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Single subsection: Restricted traffic zones

Article D2213-1-0-2

I.-For the application of the second paragraph of I of article L. 2213-4-1, administrative air quality monitoring zones defined pursuant to article R. 221-3 of the Environment Code, in which one of th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Composition and operation (R)

Article R1425-11

The chairman of the commission shall be elected by an absolute majority of the votes cast. If this election is not won after the first two rounds of voting, a third round shall be held and the electio…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Composition and operation (R)

Article R1425-12

The commission meets when convened by the chairman, either on his own initiative, or at the request of one-third of the members, or at the request of the prefect. The commission may only validly decid…

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