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No expenditure chargeable to the State or a public establishment of a national nature may be imposed directly or indirectly on local authorities or their groupings except by virtue of the law.

Local and regional authorities bear, each insofar as it is concerned, the personnel, operating and equipment costs of the departments placed under their authority.

As part of the tasks entrusted to mayors as agents of the State, the municipalities are responsible for: 1° Receiving and entering applications for national identity cards and passports and issuing these documents to the interested parties; 2° Collecting fixed fines resulting from offences punishable under the highway code and drawn up by municipal police officers. .

I.-Territorial authorities, their groupings and departmental and territorial fire and rescue services may take out loans with credit institutions or finance companies within the following limits and subject to the following conditions: 1° The loan is denominated in euros or foreign currencies. In the latter case, in order to ensure that the exchange rate risk is fully hedged, a currency-for-euro swap contract must be entered into when the loan is…

Any association, work or business that has received a subsidy may be subject to control by the delegates of the authority that granted it. All groups, associations, works or private businesses that have received one or more subsidies in the current year are required to provide the authority that mandated the subsidy with a certified copy of their budgets and accounts for the past financial year, as well as any…

Non-tax receivables from local authorities and local public establishments, as well as those from public health establishments, with the exception of cash entitlements, are only assessed when they reach a threshold set by decree.

I. – An online payment service meeting the conditions laid down by decree in the Conseil d’Etat is made available to users by: 1° Local authorities and their public establishments; 2° Public health establishments and, when they are set up as public health establishments under article L. 6133-7 of the Public Health Code, health cooperation groups; > 3° The State, public health establishments and, when they are set up as…

As part of their social actions, which notably concern food, hygiene, clothing and transport, and the educational, cultural, sports or leisure activities they carry out, local authorities, public establishments for inter-communal cooperation, communal and inter-communal centres for social action and school funds can issue people experiencing social difficulties with vouchers known as “personalised support vouchers” to acquire goods and services in the categories defined by the local authority or public…

I. – Local authorities and their public establishments may entrust a third party with the examination of applications and the preparation of decisions to award financial assistance and benefits that they assume or institute. II. – Local authorities and their public establishments may, by written agreement, entrust a body with a public accountant with the allocation and payment of expenditure relating to: – health and social action grants; > and…