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Terms Used In Indiana Code 36-2-6-10

  • 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
  • Judgment: means all final orders, decrees, and determinations in an action and all orders upon which executions may issue. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • 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.
   Sec. 10. A court may obligate the county to exceed its appropriation for that court only by judgment rendered in a cause in which the court has jurisdiction of the parties and subject matter of the action. An obligation imposed on a county in violation of this section is void.

[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 17-1-24-26.]

As added by Acts 1980, P.L.212, SEC.1.