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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Police powers relating to specific objects

Article L2213-10

Burial sites other than cemeteries are also subject to the authority, police and supervision of mayors.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Police powers relating to specific objects

Article L2213-12

The legal provisions relating to funeral honours are applied, whatever the nature of the funeral, civil or religious.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Police powers relating to specific objects

Article L2213-11

Ceremonies are performed in accordance with customs and according to the different faiths; families are free to pay the expenses according to their means and faculties.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Police powers relating to specific objects

Article L2213-13

No special requirements may be laid down, even by decree, for funerals, depending on whether they are of a civil or religious nature.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE TITLE: CONGRESS OF DEPARTMENTAL AND REGIONAL ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES AND MAYORS

Article L5911-1

…ell as the mayors of the department. Mayors may be replaced under the conditions set out in article L. 2122-17.Members of parliament and senators elected in the department, who are not members of eith…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Financial solidarity of the principal.

Article L8254-1

When a contract is concluded, the subject of which is an obligation of a minimum amount with a view to the performance of work, the supply of a service or the performance of a commercial act, and peri…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Pharmacist inspectors

Article L5411-1

In the premises, places, installations and vehicles to which they have access pursuant to article L. 1421-2, as well as in places open to the public, public health inspecting pharmacists and inspector…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Membership and operation of professional associations of banking and payment services intermediaries

Article L519-14

I.-An association referred to in I of Article L. 519-11 may terminate the membership of one of its members at its request. Membership may also be withdrawn automatically by the association if the bank…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Rules governing the availability of employee rights.

Article L3324-10

…distribution of the special profit-sharing reserve. However, a collective agreement which, pursuant to article L. 3324-2, establishes a profit-sharing scheme with a calculation basis different from th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Temporary stoppage of work or activity.

Article L4731-1

The Labour Inspectorate monitoring officer referred to in Article L. 8112-1 may take any appropriate measures to immediately remove a worker who has not withdrawn from a situation of serious and immin…

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