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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of budgets

Article L1612-12

…ubmitted by 1 June of the year following the financial year. The vote of the deliberative body approving the accounts must take place no later than 30 June of the year following the financial year. Th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of budgets

Article L1612-2

…berative body may not adopt any deliberation on the budget for the current financial year. These provisions do not apply when the failure to adopt results from the absence of communication before 31 M…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of budgets

Article L1612-13

The administrative account is sent to the State representative in the department no later than fifteen days after the deadline set for its adoption by articles L. 1612-9 and L. 1612-12.Failing this, t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of budgets

Article L1612-10

…ect of suspending the implementation of this budget until the end of the procedure. However, the provisions of article L. 1612-1. In addition, expenditure on the investment section of this budget may…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of budgets

Article L1612-18

…1612-15. The State representative then automatically makes the payment within fifteen days of receiving the decision to enter the appropriations or his decision to settle the rectified budget.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of budgets

Article L1612-5

…egional audit chamber, seized by the State representative within thirty days of the transmission provided for in articles L. 2131-1, L. 3131-1 and L. 4141-1, establishes this and proposes to the local…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of budgets

Article L1612-19-1

The deliberative assemblies must decide on the public utility nature of the expenditure having given rise to a declaration of de facto management by the Court of Audit during the closest meeting follo…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of budgets

Article L1612-15

The only compulsory expenditure for local authorities is that required to pay debts due and expenditure for which the law has expressly so decided. The regional audit chamber to which a matter has bee…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V : Value added tax compensation fund

Article L1615-6

…t at 16.404% for eligible expenditure incurred from 1 January 2015.By way of derogation from the provisions set out in this I, the flat-rate compensation rate for the expenditure mentioned in 3° of I…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V : Value added tax compensation fund

Article L1615-1

…public buildings and roads; 2° The maintenance of networks paid for from 1 January 2020; 3° The provision of cloud computing solutions determined by a joint order of the ministers in charge of financ…

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