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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VII: LOCAL AUTHORITY FINANCES

Article L6474-2

The local authority's accounting officer is solely responsible for carrying out, subject to the controls for which he is responsible, the collection of revenue and the payment of the local authority's…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VII: LOCAL AUTHORITY FINANCES

Article LO6472-2

The Territorial Council may include a credit for unforeseen expenditure in both the investment and operating sections of the budget. For each of the two sections of the budget, this appropriation may…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Trial courts

Article 934

By way of derogation from the provisions of the second and third paragraphs of Article 712-2, the president of the court of first instance shall exercise the functions of a sentence enforcement judge.…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter one: Setting the rates used to calculate direct local taxation

Article 1640 D

…members of a public inter-municipal cooperation establishment with its own tax status on 1 January 2011 and that join a public inter-municipal cooperation establishment with additional tax status tha…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Annexes II

Article Annexe I-0-2 (art. A114-4)

…16, text n º 1, at the following address: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jo_pdf.do?id=JORFTEXT000033138637

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Income tax and corporation tax

Article 238 quater D

Where the transfer into a fiduciary estate of property or rights benefits from the provisions of article 238 quater B, the tax deferrals relating to the transferred property or rights provided for in…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Prudential control and resolution authority

Article R784-6

…resulting from the decreeR. 612-22, R. 612-24 and R. 612-25No. 2010-217 of 3 March 2010R. 612-26No. 2011-769 of 28 June 2011R. 612-27n° 2014-1315 of 3 November 2014R. 612-28n° 2013-978 of 30 October 2…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L1521-3

For the application of this Part to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon and in the absence of specific mention of this collectivity:1° The powers devolved to the Prefect, in the region or in the department, are…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L1521-4

For the application of this Part to Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin and in the absence of any specific mention of one or other of these collectivities :1° The powers devolved to the Prefect, in the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L1521-2-2

…411 of 27 March 2002 relating to health and social protection in Mayotte andorder no. 2006-1588 of 13 December 2006 relating to the system of prevention, compensation and pricing of accidents at work…

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