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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Commitment of expenditure and authorising officer's accounts (R)

Article D2342-12

A certified copy of the administrative account, as approved by the municipal council and examined by the prefect or sub-prefect, is sent by the accounting officer to the regional audit office, as part…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Accounting records

Article D2343-4

…that the amount of recoverable titles and mandates is consistent with the entries in the administrative accounts. It is signed by all the accounting officers who have succeeded each other since the be…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Advances.

Article R2337-2

As an exception to the provisions of article R. 2336-1, advances may be granted to cover additional expenditure imposed during a financial year by circumstances that could not be foreseen when the rev…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Urban policy allocation

Article R2334-37

…2334-2, by the synthetic index defined in II of article R. 2334-36, without this amount exceeding five million euros;2° The sum of the allocations calculated in application of b of 2° of II of articl…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General provisions.

Article D2411-4

The request is addressed: 1° To the chairman of the union commission in the cases provided for in articles L. 2411-4, L. 2411-6 and in the sixth paragraph of article L. 2412-1 ; 2° To the mayor of the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VI : Resource equalisation

Article R2336-4

…l entity and the amount of the allocation thus determined for the public territorial entity. It is divided between the municipalities that belonged to a public inter-municipal cooperation establishmen…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: National fund for the development of water supplies.

Article R2335-14

Distributors are required to pay the Treasury the amount of the fees in the month following their collection from users or, where there is no collection, in January for the previous year. In the absen…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Accounting records

Article D2343-6

The commune's accounting officer collects the various products on the due dates determined by the collection orders or by the competent authority.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Commitment of expenditure and authorising officer's accounts (R)

Article D2342-2

The revenue and expenditure of the communes may only be made in accordance with the budget for each financial year or the amending decisions.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: National fund for the development of water supplies.

Article R2335-11

…ributor, verified by the technical service responsible for inspection. Consumption thus determined gives rise to the application of the tariff provided for in article L. 2335-13.

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