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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Financial contributions to the fire and rescue service budget from municipalities, public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation and the European Collectivity of Alsace

Article L1424-97

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of budgets

Article L1612-9

From the time the matter is referred to the Regional Audit Chamber and until the procedure provided for in Article L. 1612-5 has been completed, the deliberative body may not take a decision on budget…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General principles

Article L1611-9

For any exceptional investment operation the amount of which exceeds a threshold set by decree according to the category and population of the local authority or establishment, the executive of a loca…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Provisions specific to certain local public services

Article L1852-9

Volunteer firefighters who belong to a communal or inter-communal fire brigade and civic service firefighter volunteers, once they have completed their initial training, are expected to take part in a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V : Value added tax compensation fund

Article L1615-9

The procedures for the reimbursement of allocations from the Value Added Tax Compensation Fund by local authorities or establishments benefiting from the said fund are defined by decree in the Conseil…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Referral by the Cour de cassation of the priority question of constitutionality to the Conseil constitutionnel

Article 126-9

The parties have a period of one month from the date of the transmission decision in which to make known any observations they may have. These are signed by a lawyer at the Conseil d'Etat and at the C…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Mediation.

Article 131-9

The natural person providing the mediation shall keep the judge informed of any difficulties he or she encounters in carrying out the task.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title IX bis: Hearing children in court.

Article 338-9

When the judge considers that it is in the child's best interests to do so, he or she will appoint a person to conduct the hearing, who must have no links either with the minor or with a party. This p…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Provisions specific to legal action based on denial of justice.

Article 366-9

On pain of inadmissibility of the application referred to in Article 366-1, the claimant who invokes a denial of justice must produce two summonses to judgment delivered by bailiff to the court regist…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Cross-border recognition.

Article 509-9

The decision ruling on the application for a declaration of enforceability, on the territory of the Republic, of foreign deeds and instruments, provided for in Article 48 of Regulation (EU) No 650/201…

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