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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 4: Provisions relating to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

Article L771-10

A personal overindebtedness commission sits in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon.

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 3: Application for suspension of removal until expiry of the time limit for appeal or in the event of an appeal to the Cour nationale du droit d'asile (National Asylum Court)

Article L753-10

The president of the administrative court or the designated magistrate shall grant the foreign national's application where the foreign national presents serious evidence of such a nature as to justif…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: The Borough Council

Article L2511-10

Subject to the provisions of this chapter, the rules relating to the deliberations and operation of municipal councils and the rules that apply to municipal councils in the exercise of their powers sh…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 5: Accounting

Article L2543-10

Communal revenues are, where necessary, recovered by administrative means, in accordance with the provisions relating to the recovery of public funds. Objections against claims by the commune that may…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Communal property and establishments

Article L2544-10

The municipal council regulates the method of administration of communal property subject to the following provisions: 1° With regard to communal forests falling under the forestry regime, it adheres…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Members of the municipal council.

Article L2541-10

Any member of the Town Council who, without excuse, has missed five consecutive meetings ceases to be a member of the Town Council. The fact that a member has missed five consecutive meetings without…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Meetings.

Article L3121-10

The departmental council is also convened at the request of:- the standing committee;- or one-third of the members of the departmental council on a specific agenda, for a period that may not exceed tw…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Budgets and accounts

Article L3661-10

The President of the Lyon Metropolitan Council presents the Administrative Account to the Lyon Metropolitan Council each year, which debates it under the chairmanship of one of its members.The Preside…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Determination by the overseas departments of the rules applicable in their territory in a limited number of matters falling within the scope of the law or regulations

Article LO3445-10

The request for empowerment to lay down a rule applicable within the territory of the department is adopted by reasoned deliberation of the departmental council taken by an absolute majority of its me…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 5: Advances and loans

Article L3662-10

The chapter VII of Title III of Book III of Part Two is applicable to the Metropole of Lyon.

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