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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial responsibility

Article R1611-36

…prising:1° A note setting out the complaints in the proceedings brought against France;2° The legal and factual elements likely to establish that the failure to fulfil one of the obligations incumbent…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 4: Social action and health (R).

Article R1614-28

…iling statistics relating to the exercise of the powers transferred to it in terms of social action and health.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Failure to balance the budget (R)

Article R1612-23

…it chamber, if it considers the remedial measures adopted to be sufficient, notifies the representative of the State, the local authority or the public establishment concerned of an opinion in which i…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Control of budgetary acts (R).

Article R1612-11

The decision by which the representative of the State settles the budget and renders it enforceable is sent, within twenty days of notification of the opinion of the regional audit chamber, to the loc…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Control of budgetary acts (R).

Article R1612-9

…tes its proposals for the settlement of the budget in a reasoned opinion notified to the representative of the State, on the one hand, and to the local authority or public establishment concerned, on…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 7: Provisions governing the public company referred to in article L. 1611-3-2 known as Agence France Locale

Article D1611-41

1° For the application of Article L. 1611-3-2, local authorities, their groupings and local public establishments whose debt-reduction capacity, defined as the ratio between outstanding debt at the ba…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 4: Penalties (R).

Article R1611-15

Shall be punished by the fine provided for respectively in articles 132-11 and 132-15 of the Penal Code the repeat offence, by a natural or legal person, of a 5th class contravention as defined in II…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Town planning (R).

Article R1614-17

…nter-communal cooperation sends the prefect: 1° A copy of each application for a building permit, development permit and demolition permit, completed by him/her, and of the decision ruling on this app…

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

Article R1613-3

For the purposes of article L. 1613-6, any localised event occurring in mainland France that causes damage to the property listed in Article R. 1613-4 and belonging to the local authorities or groupin…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 5: Absence or insufficiency of appropriations required to cover compulsory expenditure (R)

Article R1612-35

…audit chamber shall rule on whether the expenditure is compulsory. If the expenditure is compulsory and the chamber finds that the appropriations required to cover it are lacking or insufficient, it s…

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