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French Tourism CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article D331-1-1

Developed camping and caravanning sites are intended to accommodate tents, caravans, mobile leisure homes and light leisure dwellings. They consist of bare pitches or pitches equipped with one of thes…

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

Article D2311-15-1

To draw up the responsible digital strategy mentioned in article L. 2311-1-1, the municipalities and public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax status mentioned in the sa…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article D48-1-1

The thresholds of six months' or one year's imprisonment provided for in terms of sentence adjustment by the third paragraph of Article 132-19 and Article 132-25 of the Criminal Code, as well as by 1°…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article D47-11-1

The provisions of articles 706-49,706-50,706-51-1,706-52and 706-53 are applicable, where there is uncertainty as to the victim's age, where there is reason to believe that the victim is a minor.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter X: Digital asset service providers

Article D54-10-6

To obtain the authorisation referred to in Article L. 54-10-5, applicants must send the AMF a complete file containing the following information: I.-General information, in particular: 1° Its name or…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Repair, reconstruction and rebuilding of property and businesses damaged as a result of hostilities

Article 1056

I. - 1° Deeds, judgments, documents and writings relating to the application of the law of 28 October 1946 on war damage are, provided that they expressly refer to it, exempt from registration duties…

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

Article D1872-1

I. - The articles D. 1612-1, D. 1612-2, D. 1612-4 and R. 1612-8 to R. 1612-38 are applicable to the communes of French Polynesia subject to the adaptations provided for in II to VI.II. - For its appli…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VIIIa: Basic excess

Article 293 D

I. - The turnover figures referred to in I and IV of article 293 B are made up of the amount excluding value added tax of supplies of goods and services carried out during the reference period, with t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Public and civil proceedings

Article D1-1

The terms of application of II to IV of Article 28 of Organic Law No. 2011-333 of 29 March 2011 on the Human Rights Defender are specified by this article. I.-The proposal for a settlement made by the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Guarantor guarantee

Article D753-13

I. - Subject to the adaptations provided for in II, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in French Polynesia, in the wording indicated in the…

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