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Terms Used In Maryland Code, STATE FINANCE AND PROCUREMENT 7-201

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • state: means :

    (1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or

    (2) the District of Columbia. See
(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b) “Appropriation act” means:

(1) the State budget; or

(2) a supplementary appropriation act.

(c) “Program” means a brief statement in an appropriation act of the purpose for which an appropriation shall be used.

(d) “Warrant” means a warrant that the Comptroller, the Chief Deputy Comptroller, or a deputy comptroller issues for the disbursement of money from the State Treasury.