Alabama Code 41-4-94. Emergency appropriations
Terms Used In Alabama Code 41-4-94
- 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
- person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
- writing: includes typewriting and printing on paper. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
To the end that all expenses of the state may be brought and kept within the budget, the budget appropriation bills shall contain a specific sum or sums as an emergency appropriation or appropriations. Such sum shall not, however, exceed two percent of the total amount appropriated by such bill. The manner of allotment of such emergency appropriation shall be as follows: Any department, board, bureau, commission, agency, office or institution of the state or any person or persons in charge of any activity in which the state is interested, desiring an allotment out of such appropriation, shall present such request in writing to the Department of Finance with such information as it may require, and, such request shall be handled and allotments may be made pursuant thereto as in the case of regular allotments. Such allotments shall be made only for any purpose authorized by law for which no specific appropriation has been made or for which inadvertently an insufficient appropriation has been made.