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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Royalties payable for oil pipelines (R).

Article R3333-17

…transporting hydrocarbons or chemical products is set by deliberation of the département council after consulting the pipeline operator. For pipelines declared to be in the public interest or in the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Operating revenue

Article R3332-2

The proportional royalty per kilowatt-hour produced on hydropower is determined in accordance with the provisions adopted for the application of article 67 of law n° 53-79 of 7 February 1953 and relat…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Publicity of budgets and accounts

Article R3313-8

…it exists, under conditions guaranteeing:1° Their full accessibility and in a non-modifiable format;2° Free and easy access by the public, for both reading and downloading;3° Their conformity with the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption of the budget and settlement of accounts

Article R3312-11

…forecast are carried forward, under the conditions set out in the fourth paragraph of Article L. 3312-6, the entries in the budget are justified by the production in the appendix of a forecast results…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 2: Supervision of the administration of bequeathed or donated property (R).

Article R3213-14

…le for the administration or liquidation of these assets, at the end of each calendar year and no later than the following 31 January, sends the accountant a statement of the transactions for the year…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Authorising officer's accounts (R)

Article D3342-8

…tive account, on which the General Council is called to deliberate in accordance with article L. 3312-5, presents by separate column and in the order of the chapters and articles of the budget: In rev…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Authorising officer's accounts (R)

Article D3342-6

…the mandates and supporting documents for expenditure, indicated in articles D. 1617-19 and D. 1617-20, to the issue slips that he sends to the department's accounting officer, who must check them wit…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Dotation départementale d'équipement des collèges (Departmental grant for secondary school facilities)

Article R3334-22

After the Finance Bill has been deposited on the National Assembly's desk and before 15 October each year at the latest, the regional prefect informs the départements of the provisional amount of the…

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

Article R3334-0-1

…cation of article L. 3334-3:1° The income taken into account is the last known reference tax income;2° The average per capita income of all the départements is equal to the sum of the incomes of all t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 5 : Fees payable for occupancy of the public domain by water and sewerage works

Article R3333-18

The fee payable each year to a department for the occupation of the departmental public domain by water and sewerage service works is determined by the departmental council under the conditions provid…

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