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

Article LO6263-2

The Territorial Council may include a credit for unforeseen expenditure in both the investment and operating sections of the budget. For each of the two sections of the budget, this credit may not exc…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VII: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Article LO6271-2

Lease contracts relating to buildings leased by the State, the region or department of Guadeloupe or the commune of Saint-Barthélemy and assigned to the exercise of powers transferred to the collectiv…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article LO6313-2

I. - Laws and, when published in the Official Journal of the French Republic, administrative acts come into force in Saint-Martin on the date they set or, failing that, the day after their publication…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE II: LOCAL AUTHORITY INSTITUTIONS

Article LO6323-2

…the vote on the budget, to the president of this council by the president of the territorial council.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE V: COMMUNITY ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICES

Article LO6351-2

…agraph are adopted by public ballot by an absolute majority of the members of the Territorial Council.

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

Article LO6362-2

If the budget is not adopted before 31 March of the financial year to which it applies or before 15 April of the year of the renewal of the Territorial Council, the State representative immediately re…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE V: COMMUNITY ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICES

Article LO6351-21

…ter VIII of the single title of Book VI of Part One, fall within the remit of the Territorial Council. However, the latter, within the limits it has set, may delegate to its President the power to tak…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE V: COMMUNITY ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICES

Article LO6352-2

The President of the Territorial Council appoints members of the Territorial Council to sit on outside bodies in the cases and under the conditions laid down by the provisions governing these bodies.…

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

Article LO6361-2

…e initial budget, supplementary budget and amending decisions are voted on by the Territorial Council.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE V: COMMUNITY ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICES

Article LO6353-2

The members of the Executive Council exercise the powers devolved to the vice-presidents and members of the standing committees of the Departmental Council and Regional Council by the laws and regulat…

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