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Article LO6262-8 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

November 6, 2023

The submission of the local authority’s budget to the territorial audit chamber under articles LO 6262-4 and LO 6262-12 has the effect of suspending the implementation of this budget until the end of the procedure. However, the provisions of article LO 6262-1. In addition, expenditure on the investment section of this budget may be committed, liquidated and mandated up to a limit of half of the appropriations entered under this…

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Article LO6262-9 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

November 6, 2023

Subject to compliance with the provisions of articles LO 6262-1, LO 6262-7 and LO 6262-8, amendments may be made to the budget by the territorial council until the end of the financial year to which they apply. Within a period of twenty-one days following the end of the financial year, the Territorial Council may also make amendments to the budget to adjust the appropriations in the operating section to pay…

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Article LO6262-10 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

November 6, 2023

The closing of the local authority’s accounts is constituted by the vote of the territorial council on the administrative account presented by the president of the territorial council after transmission, no later than 1st June of the year following the financial year, of the management account drawn up by the accountant of the territorial authority. The vote of the territorial council approving the accounts must take place no later than…

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Article LO6262-11 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

November 6, 2023

The administrative account is sent to the State representative no later than fifteen days after the deadline set for its adoption by the articles LO 6262-7 and LO 6262-10. Failing this, the State representative shall refer the matter to the article LO 6262-4, the territorial audit office for the local authority’s next budget.

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Article LO6262-12 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

November 6, 2023

When the closing of the local authority’s accounts shows a deficit in the implementation of the budget, after verification of the accuracy of the revenue and expenditure entries, equal to or greater than 10% of the revenue of the operating section, the territorial audit chamber, referred to by the State representative, proposes to the local authority the measures necessary to re-establish a balanced budget, within one month of this referral….

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Article LO6262-13 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

November 6, 2023

Only expenditure necessary to pay debts due and expenditure for which the law has expressly so decided is compulsory for the local authority. The territorial audit chamber to which a matter has been referred, either by the State representative, or by the public accountant concerned, or by any person with an interest, establishes that a compulsory expenditure has not been entered in the budget or has been entered for an…

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Article LO6262-14 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

November 6, 2023

If the President of the Territorial Council fails to pay a compulsory expenditure within one month of being given formal notice to do so by the representative of the State, the latter shall proceed to do so ex officio. The period provided for in the previous paragraph is extended to two months if the expenditure is equal to or greater than 5% of the operating section of the primary budget.

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Article LO6262-15 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

November 6, 2023

The provisions of articles LO 6262-13 and LO 6262-14 do not apply to the entry and payment of compulsory expenditure resulting, for the local authority and its public establishments, from a court decision that has become final. These operations remain governed by the legislative provisions relating to penalties imposed in administrative matters and the enforcement of judgements by legal entities governed by public law and the Code of Administrative Justice….

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Article LO6262-16 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

November 6, 2023

In the context of public orders, when default interest is not mandated at the same time as the principal, the latter being in an amount greater than a threshold set by regulation, the accounting officer assigning the expenditure shall inform the authorising officer and the representative of the State within ten days of receipt of the payment order. Within fifteen days, the representative of the State shall send the authorising…

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