Article L2543-2 of the French General Code of Local Authorities
The budgets of communes of 25,000 inhabitants and above and assimilated communes are enforceable ipso jure as soon as they are adopted by the municipal council. The provisions of the first paragraph are applicable: 1° In the chief towns of arrondissements when their municipal councils decide to place themselves under this system; 2° In communes which, by decree issued at the request of their municipal councils and following the opinion…