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Showing 931940 of 60433 articles for Art. Loi 86-18 du 6-1-1986

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R1233-18

The social administration committee benefits from the funding provided for in articles L. 2312-81 to L. 2312-84 of the Labour Code to finance the activities provided for in articles L. 2312-78 and L.…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Revenue, imprest and imprest accounts of local authorities and their public establishments (R)

Article R1617-18

Regies may be set up outside national territory. These régies are subject to the rules defined in articles R. 1617-2 to R. 1617-17. However: a) The constitutive act may provide that these régies pay a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Presentation and determination of the statement of estimates of revenue and expenditure

Article R6145-18

The provisional cash flow statement and each of the provisional profit and loss accounts are presented in summary form, by title, and in detailed form, by chapter.

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article 706-95-18

The public prosecutor, the examining magistrate or the judicial police officer assigned by him or requested by the public prosecutor, or the judicial police officer acting under his responsibility, sh…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Judicial supervision

Article R24-18

…present at times and in places that he determines, including if these places were to be integrated due to the movements of the person or victim in an alert or pre-alert zone.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Conditions for admission to the profession of commercial court clerk

Article R742-18

Commercial court clerks may be appointed by order of the Garde des Sceaux, Minister of Justice:1° Persons registered on the aptitude list provided for in Article R. 742-16 ;2° Persons who, having pass…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Police.

Article D2573-18

The articles R. 2214-2 and R. 2214-3 are applicable to the communes of French Polynesia.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Regulations attached to agreements.

Article R6142-18

In the event of an infringement of the regulations by a member of staff working for the university hospital centre, the university or a training or research unit, the penalty shall be imposed by the d…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Medical laboratories established in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article D6221-18

…ished in France requesting the performance of the analytical phase are subject to a monitoring procedure making it possible to establish the conformity of the biological samples accepted by the labora…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Organisation and operation

Article R1123-18

The duties of a member of a personal data protection committee are performed free of charge.Committee members who suffer a loss of income as a result of attending meetings, members included on a list…

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