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Article D2311-5 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

For budgets voted by nature, the budget article corresponds to the most detailed subdivision of the nomenclatures defined by the interministerial decree referred to in article D. 2311-2, supplemented, for operations, by the operation number. The chapters entitled “Unforeseen expenditure”, “Transfer from the operating section”, “Transfer to the investment section” and “Proceeds from the disposal of fixed assets” do not include any article.

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Article D2311-6 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

For municipalities and their public administrative establishments that have opted to vote their budgets by function, the chapters correspond: a) Investment section: – for operations that can be broken down, to heading 90 “Capital operations”, supplemented by the number of one of the ten functions of the functional nomenclature published by the decree referred to in article D. 2311-2; – for operations that cannot be broken down, to the three-digit…

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Article D2311-7 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

For municipalities and their public administrative establishments that have opted to vote their budget by function, the budget items correspond: a) Investment section: – for operations that can be broken down, to heading 90 “Capital operations”, completed by the most detailed subdivision of the functional nomenclature defined by the decree referred to in Article D. 2311-2 and the transaction number, in the case of a vote by transaction. The operation…

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Article R2311-9 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

In application of article L. 2311-3, the investment section of the budget may include programme authorisations and the operating section may include commitment authorisations. Each programme or commitment authorisation includes a provisional breakdown by financial year of the corresponding payment appropriations. Programme or commitment authorisations and any revisions thereto are presented by the mayor. They are voted by the City Council, by separate deliberation, when adopting the budget for the…

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Article R2311-11 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

A. – The financing requirement or surplus of the investment section recorded at the end of the financial year is made up of the outturn balance corrected by the outstanding commitments. The outturn balance of the investment section corresponds to the difference between the amount of revenue vouchers and the amount of expenditure orders issued during the financial year, including, where applicable, reductions and cancellations of revenue and expenditure, increased…

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Article R2311-12 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The cumulative result defined in B of Article R. 2311-11 is allocated, when it is a surplus: 1° As a priority, to reserves to cover the financing requirement of the investment section arising at the close of the previous financial year; 2° For the balance, to the operating surplus carried forward or as an additional allocation to reserves. Where there is a deficit, it is added to the operating expenditure…

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Article R2311-13 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

If the administrative account has not been adopted by the date of the vote on the budget for the following financial year, when the result of the operating section, the financing requirement or, where applicable, the surplus from the investment section and the forecast appropriation are carried forward, under the conditions set out in the fourth paragraph of article L. 2311-5, the entries in the budget are justified by the…

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Article D2311-14 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

For the application of Article L. 2311-6, when the investment section of the budget shows a surplus, the following may be taken back to the operating section: – the proceeds from the sale of a fixed asset received as a gift or bequest, provided that it is not expressly allocated to investment; – the proceeds from the sale of a budget investment. The recovery of this income is limited to…

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