I. – Local authorities, their groupings and departmental fire and rescue services may only enter into financial contracts provided that they are backed by loans and that the variable interest rate of the indexation formula resulting from the combination of the loan and the financial contract does not derogate from the conditions set out in Article R. 1611-33.
II. – The deliberation of the deliberative assembly or, in the event of delegation by the deliberative assembly, the decision of the executive to proceed with the subscription of a financial contract mentions the essential characteristics of the financial contract as well as the loan contract to which it is backed and states that the combination of the two contracts complies with the conditions set out in I of this article.