TITLE I

If the mayor, the president of the departmental council or the president of the regional council, as the case may be, fails to pay a compulsory expenditure within one month of being given formal notice to do so by the representative of the State in the department, the latter shall proceed to do so automatically. The period provided for in the previous paragraph is extended to two months if the…

The provisions of articles L. 1612-15 and L. 1612-16 are not applicable to the entry and payment of compulsory expenditure resulting, for local authorities, their groupings and their public establishments, from a court decision that has become res judicata. These operations remain governed by Article 1 of loi n° 80-539 du 16 juillet 1980 relative aux astreintes prononcées en matière administrative et à l’exécution des jugements par les personnes morales…

When the sums due in respect of default interest and the fixed indemnity for recovery costs mentioned in Articles L. 2192-8 and L. 3133-8 of the Public Procurement Code are not mandated within thirty days of the date of payment of the principal, the State representative in the department sends the authorising officer, within fifteen days of notification by the creditor, the public accountant or any other third party, formal…

The deliberative assemblies are kept informed as soon as they meet of the opinions formulated by the regional audit chamber and of the orders issued by the representative of the State in application of the provisions of this chapter. Without waiting for the deliberative assembly to meet, the opinions formulated by the regional audit chamber and the orders issued by the representative of the State pursuant to articles L. 1612-2,…

The deliberative assemblies must decide on the public utility nature of the expenditure having given rise to a declaration of de facto management by the Court of Audit during the closest meeting following the transmission of the request sent by the Court of Audit to the de facto accounting officer and the authorising officer of the local authority concerned. The deliberative assemblies must decide on the public utility nature of…

I. – The provisions of this chapter are applicable to municipal and inter-municipal public establishments. II. – They shall also apply, with the exception of article L. 1612-7 : – to departmental and interdepartmental public establishments; – to public establishments common to communes and departments; – to public establishments common to local authorities or groupings of such authorities and to public establishments; – to regional and interregional public establishments.