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French General Tax CodeIn force
VI: Transfers free of charge

Article 794

I. - The regions, départements, communes, their public establishments and public hospital establishments are exempt from free transfer duties on assets allocated to non-profit-making activities that c…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title V: Provisions specific to the joint tribunal for rural leases.

Article 888

…reached, or if one of the parties fails to appear, the case shall be referred for trial at a hearing, the date of which shall be indicated by the Chairman to the parties present. Parties who have not…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Injunction procedures.

Article 1419

Before the judicial court in the matters referred to in Article 817, the protection litigation judge and the commercial court, the court shall declare the proceedings terminated if none of the parties…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V: Enforcement procedures

Article 775-2

Convicts sentenced to a penalty that cannot give rise to a rehabilitation as of right benefit, upon simple request, from the exclusion of the mention of their conviction from bulletin no. 2, according…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Employment contract.

Article L5134-107

Notwithstanding the provisions of article L. 1243-2, failure by the employer to comply with the provisions relating to the termination of a fixed-term employment contract provided for in this sub-sect…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Trainee working conditions.

Article L6343-1

For the duration of their presence in the company as part of one of the training courses mentioned in article L. 6313-1, trainees who do not have an employment contract benefit from the provisions of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IX : The Greater Paris Metropolis

Article L5219-9

…rovisions declared to be unconstitutional by Constitutional Council decision no. 2015-717 DC of 6 August 2015.]

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Provisions specific to the Department of Mayotte

Article 886

For the application of articles 296,297 and

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Judicial police officers carrying out their duties in vehicles used for the collective transport of passengers

Article R15-33

Officers and judicial police officers belonging to search brigades, territorial brigades organised or not into brigade communities, motorised brigades of the departmental gendarmerie and surveillance…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national criminal database for perpetrators of terrorist offences

Article R50-53

During searches, the identities consulted also include the result of the verification carried out by the department managing the file in accordance with article 706-25-5 using information communicated…

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