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Showing 55615570 of 27113 articles for Art. Rép. Carrez: AN 4-4-2017 n° 93563

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Development grant

Article R2334-4

The number of social housing units is assessed at 1 January of the year preceding that for which the urban solidarity and social cohesion grant is paid. The total number of recipients of housing benef…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: REVENUE

Article R2336-4

…ponds to the difference between the total amount of the allocation for the inter-municipal grouping and the amount of the allocation thus determined for the public establishment of inter-municipal coo…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: ACCOUNTING

Article D2343-4

The management account is drawn up by the municipality's accounting officer in office at the close of the management. It is endorsed by the authorising officer, who certifies that the amount of recove…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: ACCOUNTING

Article R2342-4

Products of communes, communal and inter-communal public establishments and any public body resulting from an agreement between communes or between communes and any other public body or public establi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V: Endowments, grants and miscellaneous funds

Article R2335-4

…ns from property tax on built-up properties provided for in articles 1384, 1384-0 A, 1384 A, 1384 C and 1384 D of the General Tax Code and to I and II bis of Article 1385 of the same code result in a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VII: Advances and loans

Article R2337-4

Advances granted pursuant to articles R. 2336-1 to R. 2336-3 are reimbursed within a maximum of two years. The effective repayment period and the interest rate are set by the Minister of Finance.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: The Borough Council

Article R2511-4

…he provisions of article R. 2511-16 do not, however, apply to housing whose allocation is linked to an absolute necessity of service or to a utility of service, in particular for the operation of scho…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book IV: Some special procedures

Article D47-4

…f higher education after the baccalaureate, who meet the conditions for access to the civil service and who can provide evidence of a minimum of four years' professional experience may perform the dut…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Establishment and composition

Article D49-4

…designate each year, by order, following the opinion of the general assembly of judges of the court and the opinion of the presidents of the judicial courts concerned, the enforcement judges entrusted…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Reductions in sentence provided for by article 721

Article D116-4

Improper conduct on the part of the offender during the execution of a custodial sentence served under the semi-liberty, work release or electronically monitored home detention regime may justify the…

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