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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Self-employed practitioners

Article L6154-5-1

A regional commission on private practice is placed under the authority of the Director General of the Regional Health Agency.The commission periodically draws up a regional report on the self-employe…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 5: Special provisions

Article L222-16-2

…here its purpose or effect is direct or indirect advertising in favour of: 1° Investment services relating to the financial contracts defined in Article L. 533-12-7 of the Monetary and Financial Code;…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Tasks of healthcare institutions.

Article L6111-1-2

Health establishments may, under conditions defined by regulation, provide care : 1° To persons subject to psychiatric care pursuant to Chapters II to IV of Title I of Book II of Part Three of this Co…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Financial provisions

Article L5722-7-1

Mixed syndicates composed exclusively or jointly of communes, départements, regions, or public establishments for inter-communal cooperation may also institute, under the conditions provided for in ar…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I A: Observatory of prices, margins and incomes in overseas France

Article L910-1 C

I. - In the collectivities covered by Article 73 of the Constitution and in the overseas collectivities of Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, each observatory includes, in ad…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: Obligations of the insurer and the insured.

Article L113-12-2

Notwithstanding article L. 113-12, where the purpose of the insurance contract is to guarantee, in the event of the occurrence of one of the risks defined in the contract, either the total or partial…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter X: Information for employees in the event of the sale of their company

Article L23-10-7

In companies subject to the obligation to set up a works council pursuant to article L. 2322-1 of the Labour Code and which, at the end of the last financial year, fell into the category of small and…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Loan guarantees

Article L3231-4-1

I. - The provisions of the second, third and fourth paragraphs of article L. 3231-4 do not apply to loan guarantees or sureties granted by a département:1° For housing construction, acquisition or imp…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 2: French Anti-Doping Agency

Article L232-7-1

I.-The number of women and men to be appointed at each renewal, as well as the drawing of lots provided for in the fourth paragraph of this article, shall be determined six months before the expiry of…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Title V: Information organisation

Article L451-1-2

The information body referred to in article L. 451-1 provides the State, in accordance with the procedures laid down by decree in the Conseil d'Etat, with information relating to all land motor vehicl…

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