#2009-526Law No. 2009-526 on Simplification and Clarification of Law
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The Law No. 2009-526 aims to simplify and clarify legal provisions across various sectors in France, particularly focusing on partnerships, electoral registration, civil and administrative procedures, and property laws. It introduces modifications to existing codes including the Civil Code, Electoral Code, and Code of Justice, aiming to streamline processes, enhance efficiency, and ensure better legal clarity for citizens and administrative bodies. The law also addresses specific provisions concerning the obligations of notaries and administrative commissions, thus establishing a more straightforward legal framework.
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Key Changes
- Establishment of Article 515-7-1 regarding registered partnerships, clarifying conditions for formation and dissolution.
- Modifications to the Electoral Code aimed at streamlining registration processes and ensuring timely notifications by commissions.
- Changes to the Civil Code enabling easier alienation of indivisible property upon agreement by a majority of co-owning parties.
Obligations
What this law requires
Directors of health establishments and social/medical-social facilities for elderly persons must notify the civil status officer by any means within twenty-four hours of a death occurring in their facility.
Health establishments and social/medical-social facilities for elderly persons must maintain a register recording all declarations and information communicated to the civil status officer regarding deaths.
Administrative commissions must examine electoral registration applications and make decisions no later than five days before the election day.
Mayors must notify decisions of the administrative commission to the interested person and, where applicable, to the mayor of the commune for removal, within two days of the decision date.
A notary must signify the intention to alienate an undivided property to other indivisaries within one month of receipt of the expressed intention from indivisaries holding at least two-thirds of undivided rights.