BOOK II: TERRITORIAL COLLECTIVITY OF MARTINIQUE

No expenditure incurred on behalf of the local authority may be paid unless it has first been authorised by the local authority’s chairman against a duly appropriated credit line. .

Each mandate states the local authority, budget, financial year and charge to which the expenditure applies.

The mandate for payment must contain all the particulars of name and capacity necessary to enable the accounting officer to recognise the identity of the creditor.

All mandates must be accompanied by documents relating to the method of payment of expenditure under the conditions set out in the decree no. 2012-1246 of 7 November 2012 on public budgetary and accounting management.

The payment mandate must be issued in the name of the original creditor.

The president of the local authority attaches the mandates and supporting documents for expenditure, indicated in articles D. 1617-19 and D. 1617-20, to the issue slips that he sends to the local authority’s accounting officer, who must check them within the timeframe allotted to him and, if necessary, ensure that they are regularised with the local authority’s president.

Transfers of funds from refunds due to overpayments to local authority creditors are ordered by the local authority president, who issues a transfer order. .

The administrative account, on which the local authority is called to deliberate in accordance with article L. 72-101-9, presents by separate column and in the order of the chapters and articles of the budget: In revenue: 1° The nature of the revenue; 2° The budget estimates and forecasts; 3° The final determination of the sums to be recovered on the basis of the supporting vouchers. In expenditure: 1° The items…

The president of the local authority shall submit to the local authority’s accounting officer, duly summarised on an issue slip, a true copy of all leases, contracts, judgments, wills, declarations, statements of recovery, new titles and other documents, concerning the revenue the collection of which is entrusted to him. The accounting officer may request, if necessary, that the originals of documents forming a title in favour of the local authority…

The accounting officer of the local authority is solely responsible and liable for: 1° Taking all necessary steps to collect income, legacies and donations and other resources allocated to the service of the local authority; 2° Arranging, against debtors in arrears and with the authorisation of the president of the local authority, the necessary deeds, notifications and enforcement measures under the conditions of article D. 71-104-4; 3° To notify the…