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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Collection, control, penalties and litigation relating to tourist tax

Article L2333-39

Litigation relating to tourist tax is presented and judged in the same way as for registration duties, land registration tax, stamp duty, indirect taxes and taxes assimilated to these duties or contri…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Collection, control, penalties and litigation relating to tourist tax

Article L2333-33

The tourist tax is levied on the taxable persons defined in article L. 2333-29 by landlords, hoteliers, owners, other intermediaries when these persons receive the amount of rent due to them and profe…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Halls, markets and public weights

Article L2573-31

I. - Articles L. 2224-18 to L. 2224-20 and article L. 2224-23 are applicable to the communes of French Polynesia subject to the adaptations provided for in II.II. - For the application of article L. 2…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Discipline of sworn goods brokers Discipline of sworn goods brokers

Article L131-32

Any breach of the laws and regulations relating to his profession or his duties as a sworn goods broker and any breach of probity or honour, even relating to facts unrelated to the tasks entrusted to…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Experts involved in voluntary sales of furniture by public auction

Article L321-33

The fact, for any person not on the list provided for in Article L. 321-29 to use the name referred to in that article, or a name with a resemblance likely to cause a misunderstanding in the mind of t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Experts involved in voluntary sales of furniture by public auction

Article L321-31

The organiser of the sale shall ensure that the expert whose assistance he enlists complies with the obligations and prohibitions respectively set out in the first paragraph of Article L. 321-30 and t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Experts involved in voluntary sales of furniture by public auction

Article L321-32

The expert mentioned in article L. 321-29 may not describe, present, estimate or put up for sale any property belonging to him, nor may he acquire, directly or indirectly on his own account, any prope…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Experts involved in voluntary sales of furniture by public auction

Article L321-30

Any expert acting for consideration in connection with a sale of furniture by public auction is required to take out insurance covering his professional liability.He is jointly and severally liable wi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Definition of operations for providing customers or managing means of payment

Article L311-3

Means of payment include all instruments that enable any person to transfer funds, regardless of the medium or technical process used. The operations of providing customers with or managing means of p…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: The right to support for young people towards employment and independence

Article L5131-3

Any young person between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five who is in difficulty and at risk of exclusion from the labour market is entitled to state-organised support on the road to employment and i…

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