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Terms Used In California Constitution Article XVI § 7 - Money may be drawn from the Treasury only through an appropriation ...

  • 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
  

Money may be drawn from the Treasury only through an appropriation made by law and upon a Controller’s duly drawn warrant.

(Sec. 7 added Nov. 5, 1974, by Prop. 8. Res.Ch. 70, 1974.)