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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Accounting

Article D72-104-4

Products of the local authority, the local authority's public establishments and any public body resulting from an agreement between the local authority and any other public authority or public establ…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Budgets and accounts

Article D72-101-14

For the application of article L. 72-101-11, 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…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Accounting

Article D72-104-11

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

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Accounting

Article D72-104-15

The management account submitted by the local authority's accounting officer presents the local authority's accounting position at 31 December of the financial year, including the transactions of the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Revenue

Article D72-102-1

The following provisions shall apply to the territorial collectivity of Martinique: 1° Le titre III du livre III de la troisième partie relatif aux recettes des départements; 2° Le chapitre III du tit…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Budgets and accounts

Article D72-101-3

The chapters of budgets voted by nature correspond:a) Investment section:- to each of the two-digit accounts in classes 1 and 2 open to the nomenclature by nature, with the exception of the accounts "…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Budgets and accounts

Article D72-101-8

The cross presentation, by function or by nature, provided for in the first paragraph of Article L. 71-101-4 is carried out between the finest level of the functional nomenclature and each of the thre…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Accounting

Article D72-104-5

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..

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Budgets and accounts

Article D72-101-4

For budgets voted by type, the budget item corresponds to the most detailed subdivision of the nomenclatures defined by the decree provided for in Article L. 71-101-4, supplemented, for operations, by…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Budgets and accounts

Article D72-101-11

The operating result is the surplus or deficit for the year. For the purposes of appropriation, it is combined with the previous result carried forward, excluding any outstanding commitments.Outstandi…

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