PART FIVE: LOCAL COOPERATION

The allocation of grants is decided separately from the budget vote. However, for grants for which there are no conditions of award, the Metropolitan Council may decide: 1° To individualise the appropriations per beneficiary in the budget; or 2° To draw up, in a statement attached to the budget, a list of beneficiaries with, for each of them, the purpose and amount of the grant. The individualisation of appropriations or…

For the application of Article L. 2312-1, the presentation of the budget guidelines takes place within a period of ten weeks prior to the examination of the budget. The draft budget of the metropolitan authority is prepared and presented by the president of the metropolitan authority council, who is required to communicate it to the members of the metropolitan authority council, together with the corresponding reports, at least twelve days…

The budget of the metropolitan authority is voted either by nature or by function. If the budget is voted by type, it also includes a cross-referenced presentation by function; if it is voted by function, it includes a cross-referenced presentation by type. The nomenclature by nature and the nomenclature by function are set by joint order of the Minister responsible for local authorities and the Minister responsible for the budget….

The appropriations are voted by chapter and, if the Metropolitan Council so decides, by article. In both these cases, the Metropolitan Council may, however, specify that certain appropriations are specialised by article. In the event of voting by article, the President of the Metropolitan Council may, by express decision, make transfers from article to article within the same chapter excluding articles whose appropriations are specialised. Within a limit set at…

I. – If the Metropolitan Council so decides, the allocations for capital expenditure include programme authorisations and payment appropriations. Programme authorisations constitute the upper limit of expenditure that may be committed for the execution of investments. They remain valid for an unlimited period until they are cancelled. They may be revised. Payment credits constitute the upper limit of expenditure that may be ordered or paid during the year to cover…

Prior to the vote on the first budgetary deliberation following its renewal, the metropolitan council shall draw up its budgetary and financial regulations. The metropolitan authority’s budgetary and financial regulations specify in particular: 1° The procedures for managing programme authorisations, commitment authorisations and related payment appropriations, and in particular the rules relating to the lapse and cancellation of programme authorisations and commitment authorisations; 2° The procedures for informing the metropolitan…

When the investment section or the operating section of the budget includes either programme authorisations and payment appropriations, or commitment authorisations and payment appropriations, the President of the Metropolitan Council may, until the adoption of the budget or until its settlement in the event of non-adoption of the budget, liquidate and mandate investment expenditure and operating expenditure corresponding to the authorisations opened during previous financial years, within the limit of…

The Chairman of the Metropolitan Council presents the administrative account to the Metropolitan Council each year, which debates it under the chairmanship of one of its members. The Chairman of the Metropolitan Council may, even if he is no longer in office, attend the discussion. He must withdraw when the vote is taken. The administrative account is adopted by the metropolitan council. Previously, the metropolitan council adopts the management account…

The surplus from the operating section for the financial year just ended, together with the previous result carried forward, is allocated in full at the earliest budgetary decision following the vote on the administrative account and, in any event, before the close of the following financial year. The allocation decision taken by the metropolitan authority is produced in support of the budgetary decision to take back this result. The deficit…

When the investment section of the budget shows a surplus after taking over the results, the local authority may transfer this surplus to the operating section in the cases and conditions defined by decree.