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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Police powers relating to specific objects

Article L2213-23

…he water's edge. The mayor regulates the use of facilities built for the practice of these activities. The mayor shall provide for all emergency assistance and rescue measures. The mayor shall designa…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Police powers relating to specific objects

Article L2213-24

The mayor prescribes the repair or demolition of walls, buildings, edifices or funerary monuments threatening ruin under the conditions provided for in Chapter I of Title I of Book V of the Constructi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Local authorities

Article L2221-20

…es and within the time limits set by the internal regulations for winding up at the end of operations.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: POLICE

Article L2214-2

…new commune, the State police was instituted on the territory of at least one of the former communes.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

Article L2224-21

When it is found that a fair or market, even a simple supply market, constitutes a serious disturbance to general traffic because it is held on a site that is wholly or partly within the rights-of-way…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

Article L2224-26

No person other than these employees or servants may, within the precincts of the markets, halls and ports, exercise the profession of weigher, measurer and gauge, on pain of confiscation of the instr…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: BUDGET AND ACCOUNTS

Article L2311-2

The municipal budget includes the resources required to cover the investment expenditure to be carried out during the financial year for which it was voted. The municipal council determines the order…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

Article L2224-20

No fair or market, even a simple supply market, may be set up on a site included, in whole or in part, within the rights-of-way of a national road classified as a trunk road.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

Article L2224-22

The application of the provisions of articles

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

Article L2224-27

…instruments necessary for the exercise of their functions and to have employees in sufficient numbers. If they fail to do so, the police will provide for them at their own expense and they will be dis…

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