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Showing 33213330 of 29800 articles for Art. 15 mai 1990

French General Tax CodeIn force
3° : Property damaged or unavailable outside France

Article 766

…icle shall apply to successions opened and not declared before the publication of law no. 63-254 of 15 March 1963.

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 3: Residence permit commission

Article R432-11

…sidence permit commission within the time limits laid down in the first paragraph of article L. 432-15 by a letter specifying the date, time and place of the commission meeting and mentioning the righ…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Approval procedure

Article R519-56

…on will assess whether the association meets the conditions set out in Articles L. 519-11 to L. 519-15 and the provisions of this chapter. If it considers that the application is incomplete, the Autor…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Delegated federations

Article L131-16

The delegated federations lay down : 1° The technical rules specific to their discipline as well as the rules intended to control their application and sanction their non-respect by the participants i…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter Ia: Turnover taxes and similar miscellaneous taxes

Article 1609 tricies

…venue is multiplied by the ratio between, on the one hand, the amount of bets placed on the game in mainland France and the overseas departments and, on the other hand, the total amount of bets placed…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Budgets and accounts

Article L4425-23

…ce policies available to the territorial collectivity of Corsica established by loi n° 91-428 du 13 mai 1991 portant statut de la collectivité territoriale de Corse et les départements de la Corse-du-…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Paragraph 3: Dismissal of a statement of appeal without a hearing

Article R743-16

…n article R. 743-14 or rejecting the statement of appeal in the case provided for in article R. 743-15 shall be handed down by the first president of the court of appeal or his delegate within forty-e…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Financial provisions.

Article L2512-20

…II of Parts Two and Three. The City of Paris is also subject to articles L. 5217-10-1 to L. 5217-10-15 and L. 5217-12-2 to L. 5217-12-5 as well as the list of compulsory expenditure for communes and d…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 5: The National Council of Sworn Commodity Brokers

Article R131-26

…elections is entrusted to the Board of the National Council of Sworn Freight Brokers which, before 15 October preceding the date of the renewal of the Council, sets the date for the opening of the ba…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Judicial police officers of the national gendarmerie

Article R15-33

…nd intervention platoons of the departmental gendarmerie referred to in 1°, 3° and 4° of Article R. 15-24 are competent to operate on all lines, stations, stops and corridors assigned to collective pa…

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