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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VI: LOCAL AUTHORITY FINANCES

Article LO6362-3

The local authority's budget is in real balance when the operating section and the investment section are respectively voted in balance, the revenue and expenditure having been evaluated sincerely, an…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VI: LOCAL AUTHORITY FINANCES

Article LO6362-2

…presentative immediately refers the matter to the Territorial Audit Chamber which, within one month and by means of a public opinion, makes proposals for the settlement of the budget. The State repres…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VI: LOCAL AUTHORITY FINANCES

Article LO6362-8

…ubmission of the local authority's budget to the territorial audit chamber under articles LO 6362-4 and LO 6362-12 has the effect of suspending the implementation of this budget until the end of the p…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VI: LOCAL AUTHORITY FINANCES

Article LO6362-9

Subject to compliance with articles LO 6362-1, LO 6362-7 and LO 6362-8, amendments may be made to the budget by the territorial council until the end of the financial year to which they apply. Within…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VI: LOCAL AUTHORITY FINANCES

Article LO6362-7

As from the referral to the territorial audit chamber and until the end of the procedure provided for in article LO 6362-4, the Territorial Council may not vote on budgetary matters, except for the de…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VI: LOCAL AUTHORITY FINANCES

Article LO6362-5

…dget is not considered to be out of balance if its operating section includes or recovers a surplus and its investment section is in real balance, after the recovery for each of the sections of the re…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VI: LOCAL AUTHORITY FINANCES

Article LO6362-10

…t delay, is substituted for the administrative account for the implementation of Article L. 1424-35 and for the settlement of allocations under the Value Added Tax Compensation Fund.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VI: LOCAL AUTHORITY FINANCES

Article LO6362-1

…resident of the territorial council is entitled, until the adoption of this budget, to levy revenue and to commit, liquidate and mandate expenditure in the operating section within the limit of that e…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VI: LOCAL AUTHORITY FINANCES

Article LO6362-18

…ransmission of the request sent by the territorial audit chamber to the de facto accounting officer and to the authorising officer of the territorial authority concerned. Once this deadline has passed…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VI: LOCAL AUTHORITY FINANCES

Article LO6362-12

…ws a deficit in the implementation of the budget, after verification of the accuracy of the revenue and expenditure entries, equal to or greater than 10% of the revenue of the operating section, the t…

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