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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VII: Simplified joint stock companies.

Article L227-1

A société par actions simplifiée may be formed by one or more persons who shall bear losses only up to the amount of their contribution.Where such a company comprises only one person, that person shal…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Tax base

Article 1468

…investment certificates where the articles of association provide that they may be remunerated ;b) Sociétés d'intérêt collectif agricole of which more than 50% of the capital or votes are held direct…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Determination of taxable profit

Article 216 ter

Corporate entities which subscribe before 1 July 1964 to the initial capital of the sociétés immobilières conventionnées referred to in Order no. 58-876 of 24 September 1958 or to their capital increa…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Hospital cooperatives of doctors

Article L6163-9

The practice of medicine by the cooperative members constitutes their contribution to the société coopérative de médecins which they form. Whatever the payer, the payment or the method of payment for…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R512-28

…f the following forms: 1° Professional maritime bodies ; 2° Syndicats professionnels maritimes ; 3° Sociétés coopératives maritimes and unions de coopératives maritimes ; 4° Sociétés d'assurance mutue…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: The constitution.

Article R814-109

…ration at the latest at the same time as that of the company. These companies are given the name of sociétés civiles professionnelles d'administrateurs judiciaires or sociétés civiles professionnelles…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to non-trading property investment companies

Article L231-9

Failure by the directors of the management company of a société civile de placement immobilier to comply with the provisions of articles L. 214-114 and L. 214-96 is punishable by five years' imprisonm…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Determination of taxable profit

Article 210 D

…rise from a transaction referred to in article 48 of law n° 78-763 of 19 July 1978 on the status of sociétés coopératives de production are taxable in the name of the société coopérative de production…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Public limited companies.

Article L225-1

A société anonyme (public limited company) is a company whose capital is divided into shares and which is formed between partners who bear losses only up to the amount of their contributions.It is for…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: The network

Article L512-86

…he local savings companies, the Fédération nationale des caisses d'épargne et de prévoyance and the société de participations du réseau des caisses d'épargne.

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