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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Roads (R).

Article R5215-18

…includes all work undertaken on existing roads, excluding that relating to the creation of new roads.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Authorising officer's accounts (R)

Article R3342-8-1

…mental and interdepartmental public establishments and any public body resulting from an agreement between départements or between départements and any other public body or public establishment, which…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Operation of the Board of Directors (R)

Article R1424-16

In application of article L. 1424-29, the board of directors settles, through its deliberations, matters relating to the administration of the departmental or territorial fire and rescue service.It se…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Operation of the Board of Directors (R)

Article R1424-17

…a fire and rescue service administrative acts collection that is published at least every six months.Travel and subsistence expenses incurred by members of the Board of Directors in connection with m…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Informing families (R).

Article R2223-32-1

…2223-23, who organise the funeral of a person whose body is to be cremated, under the conditions set out in article R. 2213-34, are required to inform the families of the provisions of articles L. 2…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Administrative and technical committee of the fire and rescue services (R)

Article R1424-18

…department and two volunteer fire brigade officers, one of whom may also be a health professional, veterinary surgeon or expert psychologist, elected by all the volunteer fire brigade officers on duty…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Communal and inter-communal social action centres (R).

Article R2113-14

…16 décembre 2010de réforme des collectivités territoriales, is subject to the provisions of the décret n°95-562 du 6 mai 1995 relatif aux centres communaux et intercommunaux d'action sociale ainsi que…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Apprenticeships and continuing vocational training for adults (R).

Article R4332-1

…riations entered in the Finance Act for the allocation to the regions for the exercise of their competences in the field of continuing vocational training and apprenticeship, less the appropriations c…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Gas distribution and transport (R).

Article R2333-114-1

…ixed syndicate for the temporary occupation of its public domain by work sites on gas transmission network structures and public gas distribution networks, as well as on individual gas pipelines, is s…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Applicable certification procedure and technical design and construction rules applicable to second-hand work equipment referred to in 1°, 3°, 4° and 5° of Article R. 233-83 and to second-hand safety components referred to in Article R. 233-83-2

Article R233-89-1-1

The mobile machines and second-hand lifting equipment referred to in the first paragraph, which comply with the requirements applicable to them respectively by virtue of amended decrees no. 47-1592 of…

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