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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article L511-89

Within credit institutions and finance companies of significant importance in terms of their size and internal organisation as well as the nature, scale and complexity of their activities, the board o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: The network

Article L512-86-1

…k network, the central body of the savings banks and banques populaires referred to in Article L. 512-106 has at its disposal the common guarantee and solidarity fund of the savings bank network, whic…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Commission du contentieux du stationnement payant (Pay parking disputes commission)

Article L2333-87-8-1

Where its decision necessarily implies that the local authority, public establishment for inter-communal cooperation or joint association concerned must take an enforcement measure, the Commission du…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Definition of taxable income

Article 80 quindecies

…ting to units in venture capital mutual funds, specialised professional funds covered by article L. 214-37 of the Monetary and Financial Code in its version prior to Order no. 2013-676 of 25 July 2013…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Conditions for holding municipal office

Article L2573-8

I. - The articles L. 2123-25, L. 2123-28 and L. 2123-29 are applicable to the communes of French Polynesia subject to the adaptations provided for in II and IV. II. - For the application of the first…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: The bringing of a civil action and its effects

Article 86

…xamining magistrate issues an order refusing to inform, he may apply the provisions of articles 177-2and 177-3.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: The bringing of a civil action and its effects

Article 87

…ication of the file to the public prosecutor, by reasoned order, which the interested party may appeal. If a civil party's claim is contested after the notice of the end of the investigation provided…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: The bringing of a civil action and its effects

Article 85

…a civil action before the competent investigating judge pursuant to the provisions of the articles 52, 52-1 et 706-42.However, a civil party complaint is only admissible if the person can prove either…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: The bringing of a civil action and its effects

Article 89

Any civil party must declare to the investigating judge an address which must be located, if the information takes place in metropolitan France, in a metropolitan department or, if the information tak…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: The bringing of a civil action and its effects

Article 88

The investigating judge issues an order confirming that the complaint has been lodged. Depending on the resources of the civil party, he shall set the amount of the deposit that the latter must, if he…

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