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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Judicial police

Article D8-3

The line managers likely to issue the authorisations mentioned in I of article 15-4 are: 1° For the national police, the directors of the territorial services of the national police, the directors of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Radon management in establishments open to the public

Article R1333-33

I.-The owner or, if an agreement so provides, the operator of establishments open to the public belonging to one of the categories mentioned in article D. 1333-32 has the radon activity measured:1° In…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article D4163-3

The employer declares the exposure of workers to one or more of the occupational risk factors mentioned in article L. 4163-1, in accordance with the risk assessment provided for in article L. 4121-3,…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Popular savings passbook account.

Article R221-33

For the application of the first two paragraphs of article L. 221-15 relating to a taxpayer's eligibility for the popular savings passbook account : 1° The income ceilings mentioned in the first parag…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Allocation of sums entered in the automatic audiovisual production account

Article 311-57

Production companies have the option of investing the sums entered in their automatic audiovisual production account for the production and preparation of audiovisual works that belong to one of the f…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Rates for special local procedural acts in the départements of Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin and Moselle

Article A444-37

The right to institute proceedings provided for in article A. 444-15 the services listed under the following numbers in table 3-2: 1° Number 135 (formal notice to regularise the sale); 2° Number 137 (…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Fees for procedures

Article A444-33

The drawing up of a report stating that the addressee of the service is without known address, residence or place of work, in accordance with the provisions of article 659 of the code of civil procedu…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Conduct of the procedure

Article R631-36

Where, pursuant to III of Article L. 631-19 the administrator or the debtor provides for redundancies for economic reasons in his draft plan, he shall attach the following documents to the report file…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Composition and election (R)

Article R5211-30

The order referred to in the last paragraph of Article R. 5211-19 also states, in accordance with the distribution rules laid down in the second paragraph of Article L. 5211-45, the number of members…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Preliminary investigation

Article 75-3

The duration of a preliminary investigation may not exceed two years from the first act of the investigation, including if this act occurred as part of a flagrante delicto investigation. The prelimina…

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