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Showing 291300 of 24099 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 15-11-2006 n° 05-18.259

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 5: Grants from the emergency rehousing fund

Article L2335-15

An emergency rehousing assistance fund is hereby established from 2006 to 2025.This fund is intended to provide financial assistance to municipalities, competent local public establishments or compete…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
D: Special procedures for determining the rental value of certain properties

Article 1518 D

…etermination of the rental value of industrial fixed assets whose ownership is, pursuant to the loi n° 2014-872 du 4 août 2014 portant réforme ferroviaire, transférée à la SNCF ou à SNCF Réseau, le pr…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter Va: Divorce and legal separation by mutual consent by private deed countersigned by lawyers and filed with a notary

Article 1146

…by a translation carried out by an authorised translator within the meaning of article 7 du décret n° 2007-1205 du 10 août 2007. The agreement is filed within fifteen days of the date on which it is…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
5°: Allocation of free shares to company employees

Article 1127

…cles L. 322-13 and L. 322-22 of the Insurance Code relating to national insurance companies; 4° Loi n° 73-9 du 4 janvier 1973 relative à la mise en oeuvre de l'actionnariat du personnel à la Société n…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Proceedings against the trader

Article R1110-15

If the professional association concerned fails to comply with the three-month time limit stipulated in article R. 1110-11 for implementing the conciliation procedure, or the time limit stipulated in…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 8: Special provisions for non-trading property investment companies.

Article R214-157

Expansion or reconstruction work and sales of property assets by non-trading property investment companies must comply with the following conditions: 1° In the case of extensions : The cost, including…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Risk assessment

Article R4451-15

I.-The employer shall carry out measurements in the workplace when the results of the risk assessment show that exposure is likely to reach or exceed one of the following levels: 1° For the whole body…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4° : Acts, archives, registers and documents destroyed as a result of war, disaster or any other event

Article 1122

All deeds that it is necessary to reconstitute following a disaster or acts of war, as well as all procedural formalities having this reconstitution as their object, are, subject to the provisions of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Gas distribution and transport (R).

Article R2333-115

When part of the municipal public domain is made available to a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation or a mixed syndicate, under the conditions set out in article L. 1321-2 of this cod…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Distribution and transmission of electricity (R).

Article R2333-110

In the event that the revenue from fees calculated for the benefit of communes, public establishments for inter-communal cooperation or mixed syndicates pursuant to articles R. 2333-105 to R. 2333-108…

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