Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 16 > Chapter 1 > Subchapter CXV - Gila Box Riparian National Conservation Area

• 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
• county: includes a parish, or any other equivalent subdivision of a State or Territory of the United States. See 1 USC 2
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• State: means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any other territory or possession of the United States. See 1 USC 7
• System: means the Foreign Service Pension System. See 22 USC 4071a