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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Adoption of the budget and settlement of accounts

Article LO6471-2

Within a period of two months prior to the examination of the budget, a debate is held in the Territorial Council on the budget guidelines for the financial year and on the multiannual commitments env…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Adoption of the budget and settlement of accounts

Article LO6471-6

…ctively voted in balance, the revenue and expenditure having been evaluated sincerely, and when the deduction from the revenue of the operating section for the benefit of the investment section, added…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Adoption of the budget and settlement of accounts

Article LO6471-7

…udit chamber, seized by the representative of the State within thirty days of the transmission provided for in article LO 6451-1, establishes this, proposes to the local authority, within thirty days…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Adoption of the budget and settlement of accounts

Article LO6471-13

…stituted by the vote of the territorial council on the administrative account presented by the president of the territorial council after transmission, no later than 1st June of the year following the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Adoption of the budget and settlement of accounts

Article LO6471-14

The administrative account is sent to the State representative no later than fifteen days after the deadline set for its adoption by articles LO 6471-10 and LO 6471-13.Failing this, the State represen…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Adoption of the budget and settlement of accounts

Article LO6471-17

If the President of the Territorial Council fails to authorise a compulsory expenditure within one month of being given formal notice to do so by the representative of the State, the latter shall proc…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Adoption of the budget and settlement of accounts

Article LO6471-18

…mpulsory expenditure resulting, for the local authority and its public establishments, from a court decision that has become final. These operations remain governed by the legislative provisions relat…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Adoption of the budget and settlement of accounts

Article LO6471-15

When the closure of the local authority's accounts shows a deficit equal to or greater than 5% in the implementation of the budget, after verification of the accuracy of the revenue and expenditure en…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Adoption of the budget and settlement of accounts

Article LO6471-19

In the context of public orders, when default interest is not mandated at the same time as the principal, the latter being in an amount greater than a threshold set by regulation, the accounting offic…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Adoption of the budget and settlement of accounts

Article LO6471-21

…ritorial council must rule on the public utility nature of the expenditure that has given rise to a declaration of de facto management by the territorial audit chamber during the closest meeting follo…

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