The surplus from the operating section for the financial year ended, together with the previous result carried forward, is allocated in full at the earliest budgetary decision following the approval of the administrative account and, in any event, before the close of the following financial year.
The appropriation decision taken by the deliberative assembly is submitted in support of the budgetary decision to take over this result. When the administrative account does not show a financing requirement in the investment section, the operating section result recorded in the administrative account is taken over in this section unless the council decides otherwise.
The deficit in the operating section, the financing requirement or the surplus in the investment section shall be reversed in full at the earliest budgetary decision following the approval of the administrative account and, in any event, before the end of the financial year.
Between the mandating deadline set in the third paragraph of article L. 1612-11 and the deadline for voting on local tax rates provided for in Article 1639 A of the General Tax Code, the municipal council may, in respect of the financial year ended and before the adoption of its administrative account, carry forward to the budget the result of the operating section, the financing requirement of the investment section, or where applicable the surplus of the investment section, together with the forecast allocation.
If the administrative account shows a difference with the amounts carried forward, the deliberative assembly shall regularise them and take back the result in the next budgetary decision following the vote on the administrative account and, in any event, before the end of the financial year.
A decree in the Council of State lays down the conditions for application of this article.