California Government Code 16418.5 – (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each special …
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each special fund shall include a contingency reserve for economic uncertainties. These reserves shall constitute reserve funds within the meaning of Section 5 of XIII B of the California Constitution.
(b) On the first day of each fiscal year, or on the day that the Budget Act for that fiscal year is chaptered, whichever occurs later, an amount sufficient for any appropriation made by that Budget Act or by any other statute from the fund in which the reserve account is established, shall be appropriated from each reserve account in each special fund.
Terms Used In California Government Code 16418.5
- 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
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
(c) On the last day of each fiscal year, the unappropriated balance in each special fund shall be appropriated to the reserve account in that special fund.
(Added by renumbering Section 16419 (as added by Stats. 1989, Ch. 942) by Stats. 1991, Ch. 1091, Sec. 55.)