Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6505 – Payment of appropriations; limitations
(a) The moneys appropriated in the Budget Appropriation Bill shall be paid by the State Treasurer from the General Fund except as otherwise provided by law.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6505
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- 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
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- 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.
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Secretary of Finance: shall mean the Secretary of Finance or a duly authorized designee. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6501
- State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
- Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
(b) Nothing contained in Titles 14 and 31 shall be construed as authorizing appropriations or expenditures of General Fund moneys during any fiscal year in excess of or other than the amount set forth in the Budget Appropriation Bill or as may be authorized in supplementary appropriation acts enacted by the General Assembly.
(c) No funds appropriated by the Budget Appropriation Bill or otherwise available to an agency of this State shall be expended except for purposes necessary to carry out the functions of such agency; no funds shall be expended for purposes such as gratuities, greeting cards, flowers and tickets to athletic events when unrelated to the agency’s function; no funds shall be expended for parking tickets or other traffic violations; and the Secretary, Department of Finance, shall, in executing the Secretary’s duty under § 6518 of this title, refuse to approve any such expenditures. Any agency affected by this section shall have the right of appeal to the Budget Commission. No agency or school district shall use credit cards registered in the name of the employee, agency, school district or State which could create an obligation of the State, except:
(1) Contract credit cards authorized by the Secretary of Finance and distributed to state employees may be used for duly authorized travel expenses and purchases made by state agencies and school districts pursuant to policy and procedures as established by the Secretary of Finance;
(2) Telephone credit cards to approved employees, elected officials and public members of boards and commissions under a program established and administered by the Government Support Services, Office of Management and Budget, pursuant to policy and procedures as established by the Secretary of Finance; and
(3) Oil company credit cards having received prior approval by the Secretary of Finance.
(d) Moneys appropriated in a grant-in-aid bill shall be paid in installments of 25 percent each quarter of the fiscal year, in accordance with administrative procedures established by the Secretary of Finance and the Treasurer of the State; provided, however, in the event the line item amount appropriated in a grant-in-aid bill is $6,000 or less, such amount shall be paid on an annual basis. The General Assembly may make exceptions to the installment requirement by adding epilogue language to the grant-in-aid bill.
37 Del. Laws, c. 81, § ?17; Code 1935, § ?5415; 29 Del. C. 1953, § ?6505; 54 Del. Laws, c. 39, § ?4; 62 Del. Laws, c. 68, § ?44; 64 Del. Laws, c. 109, § ?1; 65 Del. Laws, c. 137, § ?1; 67 Del. Laws, c. 62, § ?19; 67 Del. Laws, c. 281, § ?98; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1; 71 Del. Laws, c. 132, § ?136; 73 Del. Laws, c. 143, §§ ?5, 6; 75 Del. Laws, c. 88, §§ ?16(5), 22(4); 75 Del. Laws, c. 350, § ?162;