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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Administrative organisation (R)

Article R2221-19

The Board of Directors decides on acquisitions, disposals and leases of real estate assets, as well as leases of movable and immovable property belonging to the company. The Board of Directors decides…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 1: Coastal development, protection and enhancement.

Article L341-2

The term of the agreement may not exceed fifteen years or, exceptionally, thirty years if justified by the depreciation period of the facilities.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Opposition

Article 491

…d within the following time limits, which run from the date of service: ten days if the defendant resides in metropolitan France, one month if he resides outside this territory..

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: The National Institute of Industrial Property

Article L411-2

…r the maintenance in force of European patents paid to the organisation created by Article 4 of the Convention on the Grant of European Patents, done at Munich on 5 October 1973, known as the "Europea…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions.

Article R411-2

If the service provider ceases to fulfil the conditions to which the signature of the agreement provided for in the previous article was subject, or if it has failed to fulfil the commitments made in…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Miscellaneous provisions applicable to medical auxiliaries.

Article L4381-1-1

Where the province of Quebec grants the right to practise their profession on its territory to holders of evidence of formal qualifications allowing them to practise in France the professions referred…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Common obligations

Article 539

…to them or having respondents known to them. When purchases of materials, works, platinum, gold or silver ingots, have been concluded with persons domiciled abroad, the entries to be made in the regi…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Filing formalities

Article R512-5

The claiming, on the occasion of a filing made in France, of a right of priority attached to a previous foreign filing entails the obligation to send to the Institut national de la propriété industrie…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Representation

Article 1159

…sentation divests the principal, for its duration, of the powers transferred to the representative. Conventional representation leaves the principal to exercise his rights.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Title III: Sources of obligations

Article 1100-1

Legal acts are expressions of will intended to produce legal effects. They may be conventional or unilateral.They obey, as a matter of course, for their validity and effects, the rules that govern con…

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