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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Acts

Article A444-163-2

The establishment by notarial deed of the promise to sell lasting more than eighteen months provided for in article L. 290-1 du code de la construction et de l'habitat gives rise to the collection of…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: The Territorial Council

Article D6221-2

…councillors, the order of the table is determined:1° By the earliest date of appointment since the last full renewal of the territorial council;2° Between councillors elected on the same day, by the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: The Territorial Council

Article D6321-2

…councillors, the order of the table is determined:1° By the earliest date of appointment since the last full renewal of the territorial council;2° Between councillors elected on the same day, by the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Regional and interregional councils

Article R4322-26

…f four, five, six or seven pairs, depending on whether the number of chiropodists registered on the last published roll for the region or inter-region is less than or equal to 1,000, greater than 1,00…

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Contract duration and working time

Article R6222-48

…le to the contract is increased by a uniform fifteen points on the percentages corresponding to the last year of the term of the contract.

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Obstetrics, neonatology, neonatal resuscitation.

Article D6124-37

…establishment also has a neonatology unit or a neonatal intensive care unit on the same site, this last sector may be shared by these different units.

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Tax liability

Article 1668

…competent public accountant, of quarterly instalments determined on the basis of the results of the last closed financial year. The total amount of these instalments is equal to an amount of corporati…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-15

…ing of this code, or athletes who have been registered on one of these lists for all or part of the last three years;2° Athletes who are licence-holders of approved federations and who exercise their…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Conditions relating to the creation process

Article D331-4

…uros or more per minute produced.4° Works belonging to the genre of audiovisual adaptation of shows lasting 40 minutes or more and whose production cost per minute produced is: a) greater than or equa…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 4: Financial contributions from municipalities, public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation and the département to the budget of the departmental and territorial fire and rescue services

Article L1424-36

…1424-17, be less, for operating expenditure, than the average of actual expenditure recorded in the last five known administrative accounts and, for capital expenditure, than the average of actual exp…

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