The accumulated result defined in article D. 6361-11 is allocated, in the case of a surplus:
1° As a priority, to reserves to cover the financing requirement of the investment section arising at the close of the previous financial year;
2° For the balance, to the operating surplus carried forward or as an additional allocation to reserves.
Where there is a deficit, it is added to the operating expenditure for the financial year.
For allocation to reserves, implementation of the budgetary decision to take back the results, adopted by the deliberative assembly, is carried out by issuing a revenue order. The decision to allocate the surplus is submitted in support of the budgetary decision to take back the results and the administrative account for the financial year, to justify the receipts.