The local authority’s accounts are approved by a vote of the deliberative body on the administrative account presented by the mayor, the president of the departmental council or the president of the regional council, as appropriate, after the management account drawn up by the local authority’s accounting officer has been submitted by 1 June of the year following the financial year. The vote of the deliberative body approving the accounts must take place no later than 30 June of the year following the financial year.
The administrative account is approved if a majority of votes is not cast against its adoption.
When the administrative account is rejected by the deliberative assembly, the draft administrative account attached to the rejection decision as presented by the mayor, the chairman of the departmental council or the chairman of the regional council, as the case may be, if it is consistent with the management account drawn up by the accounting officer, after an opinion has been issued within one month by the regional audit chamber, to which the representative of the State refers the matter without delay, is substituted for the administrative account for the implementation of the provisions set out in articles L. 1424-35, L. 2531-13 et L. 4434-9 and for the settlement of allocations under the Value Added Tax Compensation Fund provided for in article L. 1615-6.