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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Initial risk assessment

Article R4412-97

I. - The client, the project manager or the owner of buildings by nature or by destination, equipment, materials or articles who decides on an operation involving risks of exposure of workers to asbes…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Scope of application

Article R4451-97

A worker intervening in an emergency situation is any worker who has been entrusted with one of the actions mentioned in Article R. 4451-96. These actions may not be entrusted to a pregnant or breastf…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: Transport by sea.

Article 74

The captains of naval vessels are required to complete all the formalities to which the captains of merchant ships are subject on entry.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Orders of heirs.

Article 740

In the absence of an heir of the first three orders, the succession devolves to the collateral relatives of the deceased other than brothers and sisters and the descendants of the latter.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Equipment characteristics and conditions of use

Article R4323-97

The employer determines, after consulting the social and economic committee, the conditions under which personal protective equipment is made available and used, in particular those concerning the len…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Deeds relating mainly to real estate and land

Article A444-97

The resale of residential premises mentioned in article A. 444-95, carried out in the office of the notary who received the first deed of sale, and occurring within three years of the first sale (numb…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 11: Termination of service.

Article R6152-97

Hospital practitioners may submit their resignation to the director general of the Centre national de gestion, giving three months' notice. Within thirty days of receiving the practitioner's request,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Continuous post-operative monitoring.

Article D6124-97

The purpose of the continuous post-intervention monitoring referred to in 3° of article D. 6124-91 is to monitor the residual effects of anaesthetic drugs and their elimination and to deal, taking int…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Taxes, fees or payments not provided for in the General Tax Code

Article L2333-97

…pen to public traffic on 1st January of the tax year. When the riparian property is governed by loi n° 65-557 du 10 juillet 1965 fixant le statut de la copropriété des immeubles bâtis, la taxe est due…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Letters rogatory from foreign States

Article 740

The parties and their defenders, even if they are foreigners, may, with the judge's permission, ask questions; these must be formulated or translated into French; the same applies to the answers given…

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