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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Provisions common to tourist communes and classified resorts.

Article R133-43

State officials may carry out on-site checks to ensure that municipalities and their groupings comply with the conditions required for designation as a tourist municipality or classification as a tour…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 3: Penalties for intermediaries

Article L354-4

The following are applicable in French Polynesia and New Caledonia, subject to the adaptations provided for in articles L. 354-1 and L. 354-5, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Gift-shares made to descendants of different degrees.

Article 1078-4

When the ascendant makes a shared gift, his children may consent to their own descendants being allotted therein in their place, in whole or in part. Descendants of a subsequent degree may, in the ant…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: The fixed fine procedure applicable to certain offences

Article 495-17

…ffence has been committed by a minor or if several offences, at least one of which cannot give rise to a fixed fine, have been recorded simultaneously. Nor does it apply if the offence is a repeat off…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: The fixed fine procedure applicable to certain offences

Article 495-21

In view of the request made pursuant to the first paragraph of Article 495-18 or the complaint made pursuant to the second paragraph of article 495-19, the public prosecutor may either waive prosecuti…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: The fixed fine procedure applicable to certain offences

Article 495-19

The writ of execution referred to in the last paragraph of article 495-18 is enforced in accordance with the rules laid down in this code for the enforcement of correctional judgements. The statute of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: The fixed fine procedure applicable to certain offences

Article 495-20

…issible if it is sent by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, using the form attached to the fixed fine or increased fixed fine notice, and if it is accompanied either by a document show…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: The fixed fine procedure applicable to certain offences

Article 495-22

For the purposes of this section, the place of automated processing of nominative information relating to offences recorded by a report drawn up in digital format is considered to be the place where t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: The fixed fine procedure applicable to certain offences

Article 495-18

…must be paid within forty-five days of the offence being recorded or, if the offence notice is sent to the person concerned at a later date, within forty-five days of it being sent, unless the person…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: The fixed fine procedure applicable to certain offences

Article 495-24

…ho has been fined an increased fixed-rate fine does not contest the reality of the offence but, due to financial difficulties, requests payment deadlines or an exonerated fine, they send their reasone…

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