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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Other policies

Article L2213-23

The mayor is responsible for policing bathing and water sports activities carried out from the shore using beach and unregistered equipment. This policing is exercised at sea up to a limit set at 300…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Other policies

Article L2213-24

The mayor prescribes the repair or demolition of walls, buildings, edifices or funerary monuments threatening ruin under the conditions provided for in Chapter I of Title I of Book V of the Constructi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Public sector companies and establishments.

Article L2282-2

All employees, including direct supervisory staff, in each workshop or office constituting a work unit have the right to meet in a workshop or office council. Employees meet in each workshop or office…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Reciprocal shareholdings

Article L233-29

A joint stock company may not own shares in another company, if the latter holds a fraction of its capital greater than 10%. Failing agreement between the companies concerned to regularise the situati…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Definition

Article L711-2

The provisions of this book shall also apply to debtors of French nationality in a situation of overindebtedness domiciled outside France and who have contracted professional and non-professional debt…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Dormant accounts

Article L312-20

I. - Deposits and assets held in dormant accounts mentioned in article L. 312-19 are deposited with the Caisse des dépôts et consignations: 1° For dormant accounts mentioned in 1° of I of the same art…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V: Special provisions

Article L1525-2

The provisions of article L. 1522-3 are not applicable to semi-public companies created prior to 8 July 1983, the date of publication of the loi n° 83-597 du 7 juillet 1983 précitée, provided that the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Additional designations

Article L1441-28

The declaration of candidacy results from the submission by electronic means of a list of candidates for each industrial tribunal by the representatives of the organisations to which seats have been a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Conditions for recognising the evidential value of documents containing personal health data created or reproduced in digital form and for destroying documents stored in a form other than digital

Article L1111-27

A document referred to in article L. 1111-25 of this code created in digital form has the same evidential value as a paper document when it has been drawn up and stored under the conditions set out in…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Remuneration for the exploitation of cinematographic works on on-demand audiovisual media services

Article L223-2

A decree of the Conseil d'Etat, issued after consultation with the Autorité de la concurrence, sets out the terms and conditions for the application of article L. 223-1. In particular, it shall specif…

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