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Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 65 ILCS 5/7-1-19

  • 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.
     When the whole of a municipality is annexed to another municipality, and the annexed municipality has passed the annual appropriation ordinance, but not an ordinance levying a tax for the purpose of collecting a sufficient sum of money to defray the total amount of appropriations for all corporate purposes for that fiscal year, the annexing municipality may include the amount of the appropriations of the annexed municipality in the annual tax levy of the annexing municipality, the same as though the appropriations had been made by the annexing municipality. The fund derived from this part of the tax levy shall be used by the annexing municipality for the purpose for which the appropriations were made by the annexed municipality.