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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE II: EXPENDITURE

Article D4321-3

The region may neutralise the depreciation allowance for equipment subsidies paid and the depreciation allowance for administrative and school buildings less the amount of the annual write-back of equ…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: REVENUE

Article D4331-1

For application of f of article L. 4331-3, the difference between the sale value of a fixed asset and its net book value must be recorded in the investment section of the budget before the result of t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: BUDGETS AND ACCOUNTS

Article D4311-4

The chapters of budgets voted by function correspond:a) Investment section:- for allocable expenditure and revenue, to group 90 "Allocated operations", completed by the number of one of the ten functi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE II: POWERS OF THE REGIONAL COUNCIL

Article R4221-9

Claims concerning legacies in favour of a region or regional public establishment, made by the legal heirs, are admissible with the Minister of the Interior, within six months of the opening of the wi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE II: POWERS OF THE REGIONAL COUNCIL

Article R4221-4

When the price of acquisitions of real estate, real property rights or businesses made under the rules of ordinary law by the regions and their public establishments gives rise to reinvestment in real…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: BUDGETS AND ACCOUNTS

Article D4311-2

The chapters of budgets voted by nature correspond:a) Investment section:- to each of the two-digit accounts in classes 1 and 2 open to the nomenclature by nature, with the exception of the accounts "…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE II: POWERS OF THE REGIONAL COUNCIL

Article R4221-7

The price of real estate acquisitions made out of court in accordance with the rules of civil law on behalf of the regions and their public establishments may be paid to the vendor, after publication…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE II: POWERS OF THE REGIONAL COUNCIL

Article R4221-8

Any notary appointed as custodian of a will containing a legacy in favour of a region or a regional public establishment shall be required, as soon as the will is opened, to send the president of the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: OVERSEAS REGIONS

Article R4431-1

The provisions of Part I and Books I to III of this Part shall apply to the regions of Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique and Réunion subject to the provisions specific to them.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article D6211-1

The capital of the overseas collectivity of Saint-Barthélemy is Gustavia.

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