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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Maintenance of the register and effects of registration

Article A123-29

The Registrar will affix to each registration file, for the sole purpose of managing these files, a management number consisting of the figures for the current year, followed by the letter A in the ca…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Budgetary control

Article A211-59

The management reports referred to in the second paragraph of article 223 of decree no. 2012-1246 of 7 November 2012 on public budget and accounting management shall be sent to the budget controller a…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Budgetary control

Article A211-45

The management reports referred to in the second paragraph of article 223 of decree no. 2012-1246 of 7 November 2012 on public budget and accounting management shall be sent to the budget controller a…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Enforcement of custodial sentences.

Article A39-3

The list of prisons classified in the category of centres for managed sentences or comprising a section for managed sentences provided for in Article D. 72-1 is set as follows:- ward for managed sente…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Reference perimeter and authorisation for installation within this perimeter

Article A761-10

The file for the reduction of a reference perimeter includes: 1° A plan showing the location of the reference perimeter including the communes remaining within whose territory the provisions of articl…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to establishments organising underwater diving using air, oxygen or mixtures other than air

Article A322-80

Each cylinder or set of cylinders of the same breathing gas is fitted with a pressure gauge or equivalent system to indicate the pressure during the dive. In the natural environment, each diver equipp…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article A131-2

The value referred to in article R. 131-2 is obtained by dividing the net assets of the real estate or property company by the number of shares or units. The net assets are those shown in the last bal…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Markets of national interest

Article A761-1

The standard application file for classification as a market of national interest contains, in addition to the deliberation of the regional council concerned, the following documents:1° The deliberati…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Operators of voluntary sales of furniture by public auction

Article A321-4

The following are admitted as exemptions from a national bachelor's degree in art history, or the applied arts, or archaeology or the plastic arts required to manage voluntary sales of furniture by pu…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for exercising the right to vote and stand for election and rules applicable to the conduct of the ballot for the election of members to the board of directors of the Ecole nationale des sports de montagne and to the advisory boards of the Ecole nationale de ski et d'alpinisme and the Centre national de ski nordique et de moyenne montagne

Article A211-53

The representatives of the staff working on the site of the Ecole nationale des sports de montagne known as the "Centre national de ski nordique et de moyenne montagne" who are elected to the board of…

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