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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Planning and sustainable development

Article L4424-12

…characteristic of the natural and cultural heritage of the coastline and environments necessary for maintaining biological balances to be preserved. This deliberation takes the place of the decree pro…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Responsibilities

Article L4433-4-2

In areas of State competence, the authorities of the Republic may empower the President of the Regional Council of Guadeloupe, Mayotte and Reunion to negotiate and sign agreements with one or more Sta…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title I: Domestic arbitration.

Article 1469

If a party to the arbitral proceedings intends to rely on an authentic or private deed to which it was not a party or on a document held by a third party, it may, at the invitation of the arbitral tri…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection IV: Special provisions for the register of associations

Article ANNEXE, art. 30-13

At the request of the public prosecutor or ex officio, the court may enjoin by order the members of the association's management or the liquidators as the case may be to justify within a time limit it…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter II: General principles relating to insurance mediation

Article R512-4

All intermediaries and ancillary intermediaries apply for registration on the Register of Intermediaries and for registration in the category or categories of intermediary in which they operate. To th…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Trust as security

Article 2372-3

In the absence of payment of the secured debt and unless otherwise stipulated in the trust agreement, the trustee, where it is the creditor, acquires the free disposal of the property or right assigne…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Guarantee trusts

Article 2488-5

Property assigned pursuant to Article 2488-1 may subsequently be assigned to guarantee debts other than those mentioned in the constitutive act provided that the latter expressly so provides. The sett…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Duration of the contract.

Article L6222-12-1

By way of derogation from article L. 6222-12, any person aged between sixteen and twenty-nine, or who is at least fifteen and can prove that they have completed the first cycle of secondary education,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Single chapter.

Article L5511-3

Article L. 5125-4, applicable in Mayotte, reads as follows:"Art. L. 5125-4. - In municipalities with a population of 15,000 or more, only one licence may be issued for each whole block of 7,000 inhabi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Students in medicine, dentistry, midwifery and pharmacy.

Article L6153-5

Students in the third cycle of medical studies may administer, as part of a training period and under the supervision of the training supervisor, vaccines, the list of which and, where applicable, the…

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