When the closing of the local authority’s accounts shows a deficit in the implementation of the budget, after verification of the accuracy of the revenue and expenditure entries, equal to or greater than 10% of the revenue of the operating section, the territorial audit chamber, referred to by the State representative, proposes to the local authority the measures necessary to re-establish a balanced budget, within one month of this referral.
When the local authority’s budget has been subject to the recovery measures provided for in the previous paragraph, the State representative forwards the initial budget for the following financial year to the chambre territoriale des comptes.
If, when examining this initial budget, the territorial audit chamber finds that the local authority has not taken sufficient measures to absorb this deficit, it proposes the necessary measures to the State representative within a period of one month from the transmission provided for in the previous paragraph. The State representative settles the budget and makes it enforceable. If he departs from the proposals formulated by the territorial audit chamber, he shall give explicit reasons for his decision.
In the event that the provisions of the preceding paragraphs are implemented, the procedure provided for in Article LO 6262-4 is not applicable.