BOOK II: SAINT-BARTHÉLEMY

The State representative communicates to the president of the territorial council: 1° The amount of each of the allocations paid as part of the overall operating allocation; 2° The change in the retail price index between 1 January and 31 December of the previous financial year, as well as the forecasts for the current financial year, as they appear in the tables appended to the Finance Act ; 3° The…

When a budgetary decision or an administrative account is referred to the territorial audit chamber by the representative of the State, the period within which it may formulate proposals runs from receipt at the registry of all the documents required to be produced, depending on the case, by articles D. 6262-9, D. 6262-12, D. 6262-15, D. 6262-16 et D. 6262-19. These provisions apply when the Chamber receives a request to…

The territorial audit chamber formulates its proposals for the settlement of the budget in a reasoned opinion notified to the State representative, on the one hand, and to the local authority or its public establishment concerned, on the other.

When the referral to the territorial audit chamber has the effect of suspending the implementation of a budget until the end of the procedure, under the conditions set by Article LO 6262-8, the State representative shall directly inform the accounting officer concerned of this referral.

The decision by which the State representative settles the budget and makes it enforceable is sent, within twenty days of notification of the opinion of the territorial audit chamber, to the local authority or its public establishment concerned and to its accounting officer, on the one hand, and to the chamber, on the other.

When the president of the territorial audit chamber finds that the wording of an opinion or decision is marred by a material error or omission, he may, by decision taken after receiving the assent of the public prosecutor, make the necessary rectifications.The notification of this decision replaces the notification of the opinion or decision subject to rectification and has the same effects.

Notifications provided for in this chapter shall be made by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

Without prejudice to the provisions of article D. 6262-11, the opinions and decisions of the territorial audit chamber may be communicated to third parties as soon as the first meeting of the deliberative assembly following their receipt by the local authority or its public establishment concerned has taken place. .

When the State representative refers the matter to the territorial audit chamber, in accordance with Article LO 6262-2, he shall attach to this referral all the information and documents, mentioned in Article D. 6262-1, which are essential for drawing up the budget, as well as the documents establishing that this information and documents have been communicated to the local authority or its public establishment concerned.All the budgets and budgetary decisions…