Section 4: Financial provisions.

The budget of the syndicat de communes provides for the expenses of creating and maintaining the establishments or services for which the syndicat is formed.

The revenue in the syndicate’s budget comprises: 1° Contributions from associated communes; 2° Income from the union’s movable or immovable property; 3° Sums it receives from public administrations, associations, private individuals, in exchange for a service rendered; 4° Subsidies from the State, the region, the department and the communes; 5° Proceeds from donations and bequests; 6° Proceeds from taxes, fees and contributions corresponding to the services provided or investments made;…

The contribution of the associated communes mentioned in 1° of article L. 5212-19 is compulsory for these communes for the duration of the syndicate and within the limit of the requirements of the service as determined by the decisions of the syndicate. The committee of the syndicate may decide to replace all or part of this contribution with the proceeds of the council tax on second homes and other furnished…

The revenues of the syndicate’s budget may include: 1° Where the syndicate is responsible for the collection as well as the destruction or treatment of household waste, either the proceeds of the tax for the removal of household waste and the fee provided for in Article L. 2333-78, or, where applicable, the proceeds of the fee for the removal of household waste from campsites; 2° Or, where the syndicate is…

Without prejudice to the application of the provisions of article L. 1618-2, syndicates of municipalities may waive the obligation to deposit with the State the amount of the balance of the investment section from the previous financial year, up to the limit of the depreciation allowance for fixed assets operated as part of a public service of an industrial and commercial nature.

A copy of the syndicate’s budget and accounts is sent each year to the municipal councils of the syndicated communes.

The municipal councillors of these communes may obtain the minutes of the deliberations of the syndicate committee and those of the bureau.

Where there is an inter-municipal syndicate exercising the competence of organising authority for the public distribution of electricity mentioned in article L. 2224-31, the communal share, provided for in article L. 2333-2, is collected by the syndicate on behalf of the public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax status which are members and all the communes whose population as recorded by the Institut national de la statistique et…

When the application of a fiscal or budgetary provision results in an increase or decrease in the operating resources of a commune that is a member of a syndicate by a percentage equal to or greater than 10% of the revenue of the operating section, in the case of a commune with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants, and 5% in other cases, each member commune may request the syndicate committee to…

In order to finance the construction or operation of a local public facility relating to the public distribution of electricity, the development of electricity production using renewable energies, the control of energy consumption or the reduction of polluting or greenhouse gas emissions, fonds de concours may be paid between a syndicate referred to in article L. 5212-24 and the member municipalities or public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation, following concordant agreements…