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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Interdepartmental institution (R)

Article R5421-1

…departmental councils create an interdepartmental institution set out: 1° The purpose, headquarters and duration of the public establishment; 2° The rules for distributing the expenditure of the estab…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Interdepartmental institution (R)

Article R5421-11

The departmental councils of the associated departments may, by concurring deliberations, admit a new department to the interdepartmental institution they have created.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Interdepartmental institution (R)

Article R5421-12

…he withdrawal of a department from the interdepartmental institution or the dissolution of the latter. The deliberations set out the conditions for withdrawal or dissolution.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Interdepartmental institution (R)

Article R5421-10

The accounting officer of the interdepartmental institution is that of the department in which its head office is located.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Provisions relating to the freezing of assets and the prohibition on making assets available to third parties

Article L562-12

Banking or professional secrecy shall not prevent the exchange of information between the persons and bodies referred to in Article L. 562-4 and the State departments responsible for preparing or impl…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Gas distribution and transport (R).

Article R2333-114-1

…the temporary occupation of its public domain by work sites on gas transmission network structures and public gas distribution networks, as well as on individual gas pipelines, is set by the municipa…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Register of unavailable books from the 20th century

Article Annexe à l'article R134-1

The data and information recorded, according to their availability, in the processing known as the Register of unavailable books of the twentieth century are as follows: 1. First names and surnames or…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Imprest accounts (R).

Article R1617-12

…imprest administrator, the amount of which, fixed by the instrument setting up the imprest account and, where applicable, revised in the same manner, shall not exceed one quarter of the foreseeable a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Imprest accounts (R).

Article R1617-13

Advance administrators pay expenditure under the same conditions as public accountants. Under the conditions laid down in the act constituting the imprest account, they may be authorised to issue paym…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 4: Common provisions (R).

Article R1617-16

…equired to keep accounts, the form of which is laid down by the minister responsible for the budget and, where applicable, by the minister(s) concerned. These accounts shall show and make it possible…

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