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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Communal property

Article L2542-27

As an exception to the provisions of article L. 2223-17, on an exceptional basis, when a thirty-year, fifty-year, hundred-year or perpetual plot, granted before 11 November 1918 to persons who, on 22…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Composition and operation of the Steering Committee

Article R1221-23

The Orientation Council attached to the National Council is made up of nine members appointed by order of the Minister responsible for local and regional authorities, as follows: 1° Three local electe…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Assistance for employees on part-time work

Article R5122-22

With the exception of the registration number in the national register for the identification of natural persons, the data in the data processing system may only be used for the purposes mentioned in…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Local semi-public companies

Article L1862-2

For operations other than the provision of services, the relationship between municipalities or their public establishments, on the one hand, and semi-public companies, on the other, is defined by a c…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Information on the social conditions under which products are manufactured

Article L113-2

If the transmission to the consumer of information, pursuant to article L. 113-1, is such as to seriously compromise the strategic or industrial interests of the manufacturer, producer or distributor…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Advertising of regulated commercial transactions

Article L132-24

Any advertiser who disseminates or causes to be disseminated advertising that is prohibited under the conditions set out in article L. 121-22 is punishable by an administrative fine of up to €15,000 f…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Principles.

Article L5321-2

No placement service may be refused to a person seeking employment or to an employer on the basis of one of the grounds of discrimination listed in Article L. 1132-1. No offer of employment may contai…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 6: Criminal provisions.

Article L7124-28

Abusive advertising aimed at attracting minors to artistic professions, the lucrative nature of which it emphasises, in breach of the provisions of article L. 7124-14, is punishable by a fine of 6,000…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Criminal provisions.

Article L7123-24

Any person operating a modelling agency who fails to conclude a written employment contract with each model they employ, in breach of the provisions of article L. 7123-5, is punishable by six months'…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Provisions applicable to hunting accidents.

Article R421-24

Where an insurance policy has been taken out to cover the financial consequences of the civil liability of the perpetrator of an accident resulting from hunting or the destruction of vermin, the provi…

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